PhD Opportunities in Architecture in France

This doctoral project is hosted at the Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) on the CNRS campus at Gif-sur-Yvette, within a collaborative research network involving IJPB-INRAE (Versailles) and IGEPP-INRAE (Rennes) . The thesis focuses on how modifying vacuolar nitrate storage can alter nitrogen use efficiency , water use efficiency , and tolerance to water stress in Arabidopsis thaliana . The work centers on the nitrate transporter CLCa and asks how changing nitrate storage in diff...

This doctoral project is part of the ANR PALWOOD programme (2026–2030), which investigates the evolution of wood during the Paleozoic, from the first appearance of wood in the early Devonian to the end-Permian crisis. The project brings together researchers from multiple French research units, including AMAP (Montpellier), CR2P (Paris) and EEP (Lille), with international collaborators. The thesis focuses on the anatomical disparity of homoxylous woods , i.e. woods without vessels. The doctoral r...

INRAE Doctoral Contracts are salaried PhD positions hosted by France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and the environment. The institute has around 272 research units across France, giving doctoral researchers access to a wide national research network. These contracts support doctoral research linked to INRAE’s scientific areas, especially agriculture, food, ecology and the environment. The position is structured as a work contract rather than a stipend, so doctoral researche...

BUILDERS Engineering School is offering a PhD in Civil Engineering within the BUILDERS Lab Research Unit in Caen, Normandy, France. The doctoral research addresses the mechanical performance, durability and environmental impact of concrete structures through the development and optimization of fiber-reinforced concretes. The project will investigate how the nature, dosage, geometry and distribution of fibers affect concrete properties. The doctoral researcher will characterize concrete constitue...

The Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie (LCS) in Caen, France, is seeking a PhD candidate for BIOJET-X, an Indo-French research project supported by CEFIPRA and conducted in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology in India. The project investigates how biomass-derived molecules can be transformed into jet-fuel-range hydrocarbons for sustainable aviation fuel applications. The PhD researcher will develop multifunctional catalysts based on extra-large-pore zeolites ...

This fully funded PhD opportunity at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) focuses on multiphysics simulation, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing. The research is situated within CEA’s nuclear engineering and fuel physics applications, with supervision based at CEA Saclay and CEA Cadarache. The doctoral researcher will develop a generic, scalable, and dynamic algorithm for multiphysics coupling. The goal is to detect the interaction str...

CRI Research Fellowship at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity in France is a recurring research fellowship scheme for researchers at different career stages. The call describes three types of research fellows with differing profiles and lengths of stay, and it is designed for candidates ranging from postdoctoral young investigators to tenured scientists. The fellowship is positioned as an interdisciplinary research opportunity centered at the CRI Research lab environment. Fellows be...

Co-sponsored doctoral grants from the French Ministry of Defence support PhD research on topics relevant to French defence, through the Agence de l’innovation de défense (AID). The programme funds a wide range of projects each year and is designed for candidates whose research aligns with the agency’s priorities in the natural and engineering sciences, as well as defence-related social sciences. The grant is intended for doctoral research carried out in a French laboratory, with the funding paid...

Co-sponsored doctoral grants offered by the Government of France-Ministry of Defence in collaboration with CNRS support doctoral research in France on topics of interest to the defence sector. The programme funds a full three-year PhD and is designed for projects spanning areas such as engineering, materials science, information technology and environmental sciences. The research is carried out in a laboratory in France, and the emphasis is on doctoral theses that are beneficial to defence-relat...