Postdoc Opportunities in Archaeology in France

Aix-Marseille University’s Mesopolhis Lab is recruiting a postdoc for the project “Mediterranean Dreaming: Tourism Massification and Migration in Maritime Cities.” The project investigates how tourism massification and migration are reshaping Mediterranean cities, how municipalities regulate these dynamics through urban policies and planning, and how residents experience the social and economic consequences. It also examines the imaginaries of the Mediterranean city emerging from official polici...

Aix-Marseille Université is offering a 1-year postdoctoral research contract within the Institute of Movement Sciences (ISM UMR7287) in Marseille, France, at the intersection of movement sciences, anthropology, neurophysiology, and rehabilitation . The project is part of the PEPR REINVENT programme and focuses on how phantom limb phenomena such as voluntary phantom movements and induced sensations can be integrated into prosthetic control to make prosthesis use more intuitive and reduce cognitiv...

Postdoctoral Position in Social and Experimental Psychology at the University of Strasbourg , Faculty of Psychology, within the Laboratoire de Psychologie des Cognitions (LPC-EA 4440) . This 12-month full-time postdoctoral appointment is part of the IdEx 2026 Research Support Fund . The project, “Ageism and Virtual Reality: Study of Intergenerational Dynamics,” explores ageism, intergroup relations, and spontaneous avoidance behavior in a controlled virtual environment. The research focuses on h...

Postdoctoral position in geomicrobiology at Université Côte d’Azur / CEREEP ECOTRON Île-de-France This postdoctoral project explores a fundamental question about the early Earth: did life shape the surface of the planet, and how did microorganisms influence rock weathering under Archean-like conditions? The work is embedded in the Pandora project and builds on an experimental set-up already designed and constructed by a PhD student. The platform reproduces rock weathering in an anoxic environmen...

École Normale Supérieure (ENS), through its Department of Cognitive Studies and the Interventional Neuropsychology Laboratory (NPI), is offering a postdoctoral researcher position focused on language and communication research with neurological adult patients. The position is embedded in Charlotte Jacquemot’s team, a group that combines clinical research aimed at improving care for patients with cognitive disorders and fundamental research in cognition . The post is connected to the NPI laborato...

Post-doctoral position in social sciences at Cermes3 / Inserm in Villejuif, France, focused on research into treatment practices for recurrent pulmonary embolisms and venous thromboses. The post is part of a collaborative research effort combining hospital-based observation, interviews, qualitative analysis, and interdisciplinary discussion between medicine and the social sciences. The successful candidate will observe consultations and professional meetings in a hospital setting, conduct interv...

CNRS is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded MOVING project, led by Prof. Véronique BENEÏ at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Politique (LAP), based at EHESS, Paris . The project studies the embodied traces and memories of African-originated slavery in diasporic contexts, with a focus on the Colombian Caribbean and the broader themes of anthropology , ethnology , ethnographic methods , arts-based research , and interdisciplinary social science. The successful candidate will con...

Inria Paris is advertising an 18-month postdoctoral position in France focused on medieval French philology , combining historical linguistics , medieval manuscript studies , and Natural Language Processing (NLP) . The post is described as fully funded , with compensation on the standard French postdoctoral scale plus benefits . This is a strong fit for researchers interested in computational approaches to humanities data, manuscript analysis, and language-focused digital scholarship. Research a...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Music Research and Acoustics (M/F) at CNRS in Aix-en-Provence, France . This postdoctoral opening is part of the RAMHO project ( Musical Acoustics and Research in France: An Oral History ), which studies how musical practices were transformed in the second half of the 20th century by sound analysis, synthesis, processing, and the rise of scientific knowledge about sound. The project combines archival research and oral history interviews to document the development of m...