PhD Opportunities in Neuropsychology in Luxembourg

This MSCA Doctoral Network PhD project sits within POLARIS , a European Marie Skłodowska-Curie network focused on accelerating therapy development for leukodystrophies and strengthening the path from disease modelling to preclinical and clinically relevant outcomes. The project investigates zebrafish models of leukodystrophy , including RNASET2 deficiency, adrenoleukodystrophy, Krabbe disease and metachromatic leukodystrophy. The student will develop and standardise robust outcome measures that ...

Swansea University is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in Psychology through the Psychology pathway of the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences. The programme supports research addressing major social, behavioural and societal challenges, with an October 2027 start. Potential research can be developed across social, cognitive, developmental, environmental, health, clinical and forensic psychology. Listed themes include healthy lives, responsible consumption, sustainability, ...

The University of Copenhagen is offering a three-year PhD position in human studies of how gut hormones affect insulin sensitivity and brain activity. The project is based in the Department of Biomedicine and is conducted in collaboration with the Center for Clinical Metabolic Research at Gentofte Hospital and the Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET at Rigshospitalet. The PhD researcher will run clinical and pathophysiological trials involving hormone infusions, glucose c...

This fully funded doctoral project at Lund University investigates the multimodal treatment of malignant brain tumours within the Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine. The research will be conducted in neurosurgery and combines experimental and translational biomedical research. The doctoral researcher will contribute to studies of malignant brain tumours using approaches such as cell culture, in-vitro assays, animal techniques and analyses of human biobank samples. The project o...

The University of Zurich is offering a fully funded PhD position at the Spinal Cord Injury Center of University Hospital Balgrist. The project, “Enhancing reticulospinal plasticity through paired stimulation to promote functional recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury,” focuses on developing innovative neurorehabilitation strategies for people with incomplete spinal cord injury. The research examines the reticulospinal pathway, an important neural system involved in motor recovery after sp...

The University of Bern is offering a PhD position in the multicenter project PRECISE-MDD , investigating precision treatment selection in major depressive disorder. The study is a triple-blind randomized controlled trial examining whether EEG- and ECG-based biomarkers can predict the therapeutic effects of antidepressants, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy in patients with unipolar depression. At the Bern study center, the doctoral researcher wi...

Karolinska Institutet is offering a four-year doctoral project in the Baryawno laboratory at BioClinicum in Stockholm, affiliated with the Division of Pediatric Oncology and Pediatric Surgery in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health. The project, “Decoding the metastatic cascade to bone,” addresses high-risk neuroblastoma, an embryonal tumour in which bone marrow metastases are common and relapse in bone is frequently fatal. The research will investigate which tumour clones seed bone, ...

The University of Copenhagen invites applications for a three-year PhD scholarship in the project “Exploring the bases of individual differences in face recognition” , funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project investigates why face-recognition ability varies across a large, representative sample of the Danish population and how this variation relates to other measures of cognition. The PhD project will focus on relating individual differences in face recognition to indicators ...

The Open University is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in exercise science, physical activity, ageing and cognitive health . The project, “Optimising Exercise Prescriptions for Individuals with Mild Cognitive Decline,” will investigate how exercise can be optimally prescribed to support people experiencing mild cognitive decline. The research sits at the intersection of exercise prescription, health science, cognitive health and ageing, with potential relevance to the design of physical ...