PhD Opportunities in Biology in Italy

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche is recruiting for a research contract within the Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante in Portici. The project sits in the scientific area of abiotic and biotic stresses linked to climate change and is centred on applied microbiology for the identification, isolation and functional characterisation of beneficial microorganisms for plants. The successful researcher will work on the microbial biodiversity of soils and organic matrices using microbio...

Fully funded PhD in Computational Biophysics and Machine Learning at the University of Cagliari in Italy, offered through the ELEVATE MSCA Doctoral Network and the Department of Physics, with a joint degree involving RWTH Aachen in Germany. The project integrates physics-based simulations with machine learning to predict protein conformations, investigate how mutations are linked to protein isoforms, and identify molecular descriptors relevant to drug design. The doctoral researcher will work at...

This research contract is hosted by the Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , with the position based at the Naples secondary office and connected to the broader ISMAR scientific network. The successful candidate will join a research programme focused on marine wind retrieval from L-band SAR data , supporting the development of operational ocean products in anticipation of the ROSE-L satellite mission. The work sits within the research projects RL2OCEAN -...

The Sustain Vitis MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network offers 15 fully funded PhD positions focused on the sustainability and innovation of viticulture and enology across Europe. Fondazione Edmund Mach coordinates the network, with participating institutions including Hochschule Geisenheim University, the University of Bordeaux, and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, alongside additional research and industrial partners. The doctoral projects span interdisciplinary research in grapevine bi...

Human Technopole in Milan, Italy, is offering 12 fully funded PhD projects through the HT PhD Programme in partnership with The Open University, UK. The programme covers a broad range of life-science and computational research areas, including computational biology, genetics, machine learning, neuroscience, microscopy, cancer biology, and plant biology. Projects are designed for doctoral researchers interested in using advanced biological, quantitative, and computational approaches to investigat...

Sustain Vitis is offering 15 funded PhD positions through a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Industrial Doctoral Network focused on grapevine science and sustainable viticulture. The network brings together research and industry perspectives across projects covering grapevine breeding, climate resilience, precision viticulture, circular economy and sustainability. The research portfolio also connects with grapevine genetics, digital phenotyping, plant science and food security, offe...

Politecnico di Milano is recruiting for a research contract in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering within the scientific area of bioengineering. The project, titled “Agentic EEG Interfaces for Screen-Independent Assistive Communication in ALS” , focuses on developing a non-invasive EEG-based communication system for people with ALS who have difficulty speaking, moving, or using eye-tracking tools. The research is centered on imagined speech and on identifying communicat...

This research contract is hosted by the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome. The project sits within the self-funded research program “Robot, comportamento e cervello” , focused on the study of psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions, with the advertised position specifically embedded in a program on cognitive functioning and individual differences. The selected researcher will work on computational neuropsychology , with a str...

This scholarship at the University of Camerino supports a PhD student working on new approaches for treating specialist pathologies in remote patients . The project is framed around improving treatment methods for patients who live far from the hospital, with research activity based in the university’s Faculty of Pharmacological Sciences and Health Products . The advertised research environment highlights strengths in telemedicine and AI in healthcare , suggesting a clinically oriented, technolo...