PhD Opportunities in Political Science in France

TERRA-MED is offering 33 fully funded PhD positions focused on interdisciplinary research into Mediterranean resilience to climate change. The doctoral projects cover water, land, environmental science, agriculture, energy, biotechnology, and digital technologies. Research will be conducted through universities across Occitanie in France, Catalonia in Spain, and the Balearic Islands in Spain. The programme is part of the Euroregion Pyrenees Mediterranean and is supported through the Marie Skłodo...

PhD position in Subseasonal Prediction of Atmospheric Rivers at Toulouse INP, France. This 36-month doctoral project will develop a subseasonal forecasting framework for atmospheric rivers in Europe and South America. The research will address two high-impact, understudied regions at this forecast lead time and aims to improve probabilistic forecast reliability. The project will investigate temporal aggregation to capture atmospheric-river variability, climate teleconnections and mid-latitude su...

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...

PhD opportunity in Frugal Innovation, Climate Resilience, and Hydroclimatic Monitoring in Africa This post announces a fully funded PhD position within the BEST – Between Earth and Sky doctoral programme , co-supervised by Zenlin Kwee (TU Delft) and Marielle Gosset (Géosciences Environnement Toulouse / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement). The project is titled “Microwaves of Resilience: Frugal Innovation for Hydroclimatic Monitoring in Africa” and sits at the intersection of economics ,...

New fully funded PhD opportunity in climate science at CNRM (Météo-France / CNRS), Toulouse, France , with collaboration at IFAECI (CONICET / UBA / CNRS / IRD), Buenos Aires, Argentina . The project is titled “Enhancing sub-seasonal predictions of atmospheric rivers over Europe and Southern South America” and is offered under the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action COFUND BEST doctoral program . The research sits at the intersection of environmental science , earth science , and atmospheric forecas...

🎓 PhD opportunity in energy systems , life cycle assessment (LCA) , and planetary boundaries . This joint PhD position is offered by Toulouse INP and EVERGi for a motivated candidate interested in research at the intersection of energy system modelling and environmental sustainability . The project focuses on coupling energy systems analysis with LCA and planetary boundaries, making it a strong fit for students interested in the energy transition, sustainability assessment, and quantitative envi...

PhD opportunity in radiation physics , infrared methods , thermal sciences , and materials science within the MSCA COFUND doctoral programme Between Earth and Sky . The project is hosted between ICA Toulouse and the Von Karman Institute , with collaboration between research teams in France and Belgium . The research topic is “Measurement of the Surface Temperature of Materials Exposed to Radiative Flux” and focuses on developing infrared techniques to accurately measure the surface temperature o...

New fully funded PhD opportunity in Trustworthy AI and Conversational AI at IRIT (MISFIT team), Université de Toulouse , in cotutelle with the University of Melbourne . The project is titled Development of a Platform and Methodology for Risk Assessment of Conversational Agents and is supported by IRL CNRS CROSSING as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND BEST Doctoral Programme . The research focus includes conversational agents , RLHF , risk assessment , and the EU AI Act . T...

🚀 Fully funded PhD opportunity at IMT Mines Albi in France, within the Centre Génie Industriel (CGI) . The project, MOBIUS , asks: How can we make better use of the mobility resources already available in rural and low-density territories? The PhD will focus on rural mobility , resource sharing , decision support , and knowledge modelling . The candidate will develop a decision-support framework to identify when, where, and under which conditions heterogeneous mobility resources can be shared, w...