PhD Opportunities in Evolutionary Biology in Hungary

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant. International students are eligible for up to 30% of the cohort, but funding does not cover additional moving or living costs in the UK.] This PhD project addresses a major environmental challenge: how to reduce unintended harm from insecticides to pollinators, predators, parasitoids, and other beneficial insec...

Flinders University is offering two PhD scholarships within the Australian Research Council-funded project Cranial Evolution, Digital Morphology, and Palaeobiology of Fishes (Early Vertebrates) . Led by Dr Alice Clement, the project is based in the Palaeontology Lab and Early Vertebrates Research Group at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. The available research directions focus on evolutionary biology, fossil and living fishes, cranial anatomy, digital morphology and palaeobiology. One...

The Michael Pittman Palaeobiology Lab at the School of Life Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, is offering a funded four-year PhD position focused on the evolution of wing anatomy and function in pterosaurs. The project investigates how pterosaur wings evolved and operated, combining palaeobiological research with the study of anatomy and flight function. The successful student will join a strong, diverse team with opportunities to collaborate with researchers internationally and wor...

[Fully funded studentship covering fees, maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). Limited international places are available with home/international fee difference waived by the university; additional relocation, visa, and UK health surcharge costs are not covered.] This PhD studentship investigates the historical genomics of the red squirrel in Britain , a species that has experienced a long decline shaped by hunting, deforestation, and ...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher to work on an evolutionary biology project focused on how natural selection and sexual selection interact to shape diversification in natural populations over contemporary timescales. The project gives the doctoral researcher freedom to develop research within this broader framework, using the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus as an empirical model system. This species offe...

The Regensburg International Graduate School of Life Sciences (RIGeL) at the University of Regensburg offers a structured doctoral programme for young scientists in the life sciences. The school brings together research opportunities across biomedicine , cellular biochemistry and biophysics , molecular ecology and evolution , and neurobiology , giving doctoral researchers access to a broad range of topics from molecular mechanisms to complex biological systems. RIGeL is embedded in the biologica...

Goethe University Frankfurt is offering a three-year Research Associate position linked to a PhD project in the Department of Evolutionary Ecology of Hymenoptera at the Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Faculty of Biosciences. The doctoral research will focus on the ecology and evolution of host–pathogen interactions in pollinators. The specific project will be developed collaboratively with the successful candidate, taking into account their interests, expertise, and skills. Possib...

The University of Oldenburg is offering a doctoral researcher position in microalgal systems biology within the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), based in the General and Molecular Microbiology group led by Prof. Dr. Ralf Rabus. The research is part of the Lower Saxony collaborative project Marine Algal Systems Biology (MAlSyB) , a joint initiative involving the Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover, Braunschweig, and Göttingen, together with the DSMZ in Braunsc...

The International Max Planck Research School — From Molecules to Organisms is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme in the life sciences at the University of Tübingen, offered in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory. The programme is designed for PhD researchers who want to study complex biological processes across multiple levels of organisation, from molecules to organisms and even ecosystems. Projects and training are offered b...