PhD Opportunities in Archaeology in France

Applications are open for the 2026 John G. Bene Fellowship from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) . This student award supports master’s and doctoral students conducting field research in the Global South for their thesis work. It is designed for students whose academic background combines an interest in forests with social sciences , and whose research examines the relationship between forest resources and the social, economic, cultural, and environmental welfare of people in...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in France/Spain within the European TERRA-MED programme . The Université de Montpellier (France) and the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) are offering a three-year PhD project on plant–mosquito–microbe interactions and their implications for pathogen transmission . The research combines field-based ecological investigations with controlled laboratory experiments , making it a strong fit for candidates interested in biology , ecology , medical entomology , v...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in optical phenotyping , hyperspectral imaging , chemometrics , multiblock data integration , metabolomics , transcriptomics , and predictive modelling for the agroecological transition. The position is part of the TERRA-MED doctoral programme and the OPTIBIO project: Optical tools and methods for the agroecological transition: studying wheat mixtures under biotic stress . The successful candidate will be hosted by the Université de Montpellier and the ChemoSens grou...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Toulouse, France, under the MSCA COFUND BEST programme. The project focuses on Sahara dust in the Pyrenees, using peat records and current monitoring services to reconstruct Saharan dust input over Spain and France. The research combines peat archives, atmospheric collectors, trace-metal geochemistry, and isotope geochemistry, making it a strong fit for students interested in Environmental Science, Earth Science, Geology, and Chemistry. The PhD will be hosted in T...

PhD opportunity in micro-drones, assistive technologies, and AI for blind and low vision people at IRIT, CNRS / Université de Toulouse, in collaboration with the Augmented Human Lab at the National University of Singapore. This fully funded PhD is part of the BEST Doctoral Programme and focuses on designing AI-powered micro-drones as personal assistants for blind and low vision users. The project combines computer science , robotics , cognitive science , and human-computer interaction to build p...

PhD opportunity at Université de Toulouse within the doctoral school SDU2E - Sciences de l'Univers, de l'Environnement et de l'Espace and the research unit CESBIO - Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère . The thesis topic is characterizing the drivers of spatial soil moisture heterogeneity and developing a representativeness index for European instrumented sites using a multi-sensor approach . The project is linked to climate change, soil moisture monitoring, calibration/validation of satell...

Institut Pasteur Paris and Institut Pasteur de Dakar are seeking prospective PhD students for the Pasteur-Paris University International Doctoral Program (PPU). Project title: Multi-pathogen Epidemiological Monitoring of Immune Responses and Exposure in the Dielmo and Ndiop Cohort Study. The PhD will focus on the acquisition of immunity to multiple infectious diseases using a longitudinal cohort study from Senegal with data spanning 35 years. The work is based at Institut Pasteur in Paris , with...

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position within the MSCA Doctoral Network INNOVARTBRAIN , hosted by the University of Angers in France and embedded in CRCI2NA Team 5 – GLIAD (Design and Application of Innovative Locoregional Treatments in Glioblastoma). The project is part of a Europe-wide network coordinated by the University of Santiago de Compostela and focused on advancing innovative radiotherapy strategies for brain tumours. The doctoral project investigates targeted alpha t...

PhD opportunity in soil moisture measurements , ecosystem variability , and satellite observation validation at the University of Toulouse through the BEST (Between Earth and Sky in Toulouse) doctoral programme . This is a fully funded PhD position . The successful candidate will spend approximately one year at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lund University , working with supervisors Patrik Vestin and Tobias Biermann . The project aims to improve how soil moisture measuremen...