PhD Opportunities in Microbiology in Portugal

PhD opportunity at CERIS, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal. The project is part of H2030 TIES — Transforming Hydropower: Integrating Flexibility, Ecosystem Health, and Societal Needs — and focuses on the ecological impacts of flexible hydropower operation on freshwater ecosystems. The selected PhD student will combine field monitoring, laboratory experiments, and predictive modelling to study how hydropeaking affects fish populations and critical habitats, ...

FCiências.ID is recruiting a PhD Scientific Researcher (Initial Stage Researcher) for the AquaPLAN project, titled Aquatic Pollution from Light and Anthropogenic Noise: management of impacts on biodiversity . The position is based at the cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes in Lisbon, Portugal, and is funded through the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101135471. This is a full-time temporary research contract, ex...

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), through its Research and Development Unit RISE-Health, is recruiting one PhD Researcher equivalent to Assistant Researcher within the CARDIOMICS project ( Monitorização da saúde cardiocerebrovascular por metabolómica / cardio-cerebrovascular health monitoring through metabolomics). This is a research-focused position in Biomedical Sciences and is linked to the analysis of cardiovascular disease cohorts using metabolomics and lipidomics a...

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) is recruiting one Entry-Level PhD Researcher for the project MitOConexão: Investigating the Mitochondrial Nexus in Onco-Cardiology (Ref. NORTE2030-FEDER-02713500). This is an international competitive selection procedure for a temporary fixed-term employment contract, carried out within FMUP and linked to the research and development unit RISE-Health . The position is centered on biomedical sciences , with research activities spanning mitocho...

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP) is recruiting two Entry-Level PhD Researchers for the PROFIT project (PRocedure Optimization and data-driven eFficiency Improvement in healthcare environmenTs; Ref. COMPETE2030-FEDER-00376900). The positions are based in the Health Data Science area and linked to the Research and Development Unit RISE-Health at FMUP in Porto, Portugal. The role is focused on research and development activities that aim to improve the efficiency of health serv...

Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP) is recruiting two PhD Researchers equivalent to Assistant Researcher for the MEDGPT project (REF. NORTE2030-FEDER-01414600), a research initiative in Digital Health and related areas. The position is based at FMUP in Porto, with work linked to the Research and Development Unit RISE-Health . The project, MedGPT – Medical GPT Revolutionizing Healthcare with Ethical AI , is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through NORTE...

PhD Holder Researcher position in Immunology, Glycobiology, Inflammation and Gastroenterology at the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto (i3S), Porto, Portugal. The position is part of the Horizon Europe project “Glycans as master triggers of health to intestinal inflammation transition” (GLYCANTRIGGER, GA 101093997). The research focuses on understanding how glycosylation changes in the gut mucosa may initiate the transition from health to chronic inflammation...

FEUP, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, is recruiting an Entry-Level PhD Researcher for the SHIPSUSTAIR project ( Shipping sustainable growth – Monitoring and forecasting air emissions towards climate, ecosystems and health impacts mitigation ). The position is based in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and focuses on Environmental Engineering , ship emissions , air quality , greenhouse gas emissions , dispersion modelling , ecosystem impacts , and human ...

PhD opportunity in Living Bioelectronic Interfaces with Large Motile Diatoms at the University of Coimbra , Centre for Functional Ecology – Science for People & the Planet, in collaboration with CNRS / LEMAR (Brest, France) . This project sits at the intersection of marine biology , biochemistry , biophysics , bioengineering , bioelectronics , and environmental sensing . The research asks whether the size, gliding motility, and biofilm dynamics of large diatoms such as Pleurosigma strigosum can ...