PhD Opportunities in Evolutionary Biology in Spain

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain, invites applications to its CRG International PhD Programme 2027. The call offers PhD research opportunities across internationally recognised laboratories working in genomics, molecular and cell biology, computational biology, RNA biology, epigenetics, cancer, neuroscience, evolutionary biology, microbiology and bioengineering. Projects include single-cell genomics and lineage tracing, genome regulation, chromatin and 3D genomics, RNA...

Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo (CABD, CSIC/UPO/JA) is accepting applications for a 4-year fully funded PhD position in 3D gene regulation in development and evolution. The opportunity is based in the laboratory of Research Group Leader Darío Lupiáñez, whose group is expanding. The research focuses on how three-dimensional genome organization and gene regulation shape developmental and evolutionary processes. Applicants with experimental backgrounds are welcome. The announcement states...

PhD opportunity in plant genomics and evolution at CICA–Universidade da Coruña (Spain). The project is linked to an FPU 2026 fellowship and welcomes motivated candidates interested in joining research on plant evolutionary genomics. Possible research lines include: Iberian endemic plants (hybridisation, phylogenomics, conservation genomics), tropical trees (biogeography, species delimitation, domestication using modern, historical and ancient DNA), and deleterious mutations in plants (classic an...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in social buffering and stress responses in wild birds at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC), Madrid, Spain . The project is based in the Social Evolution Unit and is supervised by Dr. Judith Morales , with co-supervision by Dr. Wendt Müller at the University of Antwerp, Belgium . This opening is a strong fit for applicants interested in animal behaviour , evolutionary biology , wild bird fieldwork , and the study of stress responses in natural population...

PhD opportunity in Evolutionary Biology at the Universitat de Barcelona (IRBio-UB, Biodiversity Research Institute) in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain . The project, METACVERS , uses cave-associated spiders to study how climate change shapes biodiversity and to investigate caves as potential climate refuges . The research combines fieldwork , high-throughput sequencing , and bioinformatic analyses , making it a strong fit for students interested in evolutionary and biodiversity research with a compu...

PhD Opportunity | InvAdapt Lab, University of Barcelona The InvAdapt Lab is seeking a candidate to join a predoctoral fellowship application and carry out a PhD thesis on potentially invasive terrestrial flatworms , including Obama nungara , Caenoplana coerulea , and Caenoplana variegata . The project uses an integrated approach spanning biology , ecology , and genomic analysis to understand what enables these species to establish and spread into new territories. This is a strong fit for applica...

PhD opportunity in Evolution of Cell Type Programs and Genome Regulation at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain. This funded PhD project sits within the CRG International PhD Fellowships Programme 2027 and focuses on the origin and evolution of cell type programs and genome regulation mechanisms. The research combines single-cell genomics , chromatin profiling , and phylogenetic comparative methods to study transcription factors, 3D chromatin architecture, histone modificat...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Barcelona in the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) and the Genetics Doctoral Programme. Cristian Cañestro’s lab is offering a 4-year FPI predoctoral contract linked to the project Gene loss impact: evolution of cardioparaxial-neuromesodermal development and genome scrambling in Oikopleura dioica as a case study (OikoLoss). The project asks how massive gene loss can shape evolutionary innovation, using the chordate Oikopleura dioica as a nat...