Postdoc 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...

The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), through the Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante in Portici, offers one research contract within the STEP NanoBio-FARM project. The work sits in the scientific area of abiotic and biotic stresses linked to climate change and is coordinated by Dott.ssa Maurilia Maria Monti . The selected researcher will contribute to a project focused on plant physiology and the evaluation of innovative biostimulant formulations . The research investiga...

This postdoctoral position sits within the Eurac Research Institute for Biomedicine in Bolzano’s NOI Techpark, where the team works on precision prevention and the study of genetic, biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors that influence human health. The institute brings together state-of-the-art laboratories, scientific computing resources, and interdisciplinary expertise focused on neurological, cardiovascular, and metabolic health. The successful candidate will join the HEALTH3P init...

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 -...

This research contract at the Politecnico di Milano , within the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” and the LaBS group at the Leonardo Campus in Milan , focuses on the design and assessment of a minimally invasive blood pump for supporting the Fontan circulation . The project addresses a major unmet need in the treatment of patients with single-ventricle congenital heart disease: existing ventricular assist devices are not well matched to the physiology of...

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...

The Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome is recruiting for a research contract within the self-financed project “The Predictive Brain in Action – PredBrain” . The work is centered on the study of embodied decision-making and foraging in human participants, combining experimental design, online data collection, and computational analysis. The successful candidate will contribute to the full research pipeline: designing and running beh...

This research contract is hosted by the Institute of Biophysics (IBF), National Research Council of Italy , at its Palermo secondary site. The selected researcher will join a project on the realistic modelling of physiological and pathological brain conditions, working within a multidisciplinary environment that connects biological, physical, and chemical sciences. The position focuses on multiscale, biophysically detailed, data-driven modelling of single neurons and neuronal networks , with par...