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Funding not stated 12 Nov 2026

PhD Thesis (M/F) Human neural stem cell lineages

Institut Curie - Research Center · Administration

  • Paris, France
  • Medical sciences

The hosting structure The Curie Institute Research Center Faithful to the legacy of its founder, the Institut Curie is deeply committed to promoting equal opportunities, diversity, and inclusion. Convinced that diversity of backgrounds and experiences contributes to collective performance, we strive to provide everyone with a respectful and equitable working environment and encourage all candidates to apply for our job opportunities. Context Laboratory The Baffet lab is located at Institut Curie, in the department of cell biology (UMR144). http://institut-curie.org/team/baffet The team investi

Funding not stated 14 Nov 2026

Ph.D. position on porting reactive multiphysics CFD simulations to GPUs for exascale high-performance computing

INSA Rouen Normandie

  • Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France
  • Physics

General Information Laboratory: CORIA (CNRS – INSA Rouen Normandie – University of Rouen Normandie) Employer: INSA Rouen Normandie Project: CoEC4ET – Center of Excellence in Combustion for the Energy Transition Duration: 36 months Start Date: Early 2027 Advisors: Vincent Moureau, Kévin Bioche Keywords: Reactive flows, GPU, Exascale, HPC, YALES2, OpenMP Description of the Thesis Topic Context: This thesis is part of the European CoEC4ET project, a European center of excellence aimed at developing exascale simulation technologies for combustion and contributing to the energy transition. It focus

Funding not stated 15 Nov 2026

PhD position – Antigen–RNA complexes and immune tolerance in cancer vaccination

INSERM · IRCAN – Équipe Patrick Brest

  • NICE (06000), France
  • Biological sciences » Biology

A 3-year doctoral contract is available at the Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging of Nice (IRCAN – Inserm / CNRS / Université Côte d’Azur), within the University Hospital Institute RespirERA (IHU RespirERA), supported by the France 2030 programme. Supervisor: Dr Patrick Brest Location: Nice, France Project description Therapeutic vaccination against established cancers remains limited by immune tolerance

Funding not stated 16 Nov 2026

Research Engineer Life cycle assessment of batteries

IMT Mines Ales · Human Ressources Department

  • Alès, France
  • Environmental science » Other

Founded in 1843, IMT Mines Alès currently has 1,400 students (including 250 foreign students) and 380 staff members. The school has three high-level scientific and technological research and teaching centers working in the fields of materials and civil engineering (C2MA), the environment and risks (CREER), and artificial intelligence and industrial and digital engineering (CERIS). It has 12 technology platforms and 1

Funding not stated 16 Nov 2026

Fault-Tolerant Remote Sensing Data Dissemination Protocols For Climate Change And Sustainability

ENAC · Distributed Computer Systems and Networks

  • Toulouse, France
  • Computer science, Mathematics

Keywords: distributed computing, dissemination protocols, swarm intelligence, global change, remote sensing, fault tolerance, intermittent computing Abstract Collecting environmental remote sensing data is key to quantifying and better understanding the impacts of global change. Collecting data in remote ecosystems such as mangrove estuaries, rainforests, deep-water habitats and river flowstreams requires high coverage and spatiotemporal precision. While satellite systems enable high coverage, they lack precise spatiotemporal data collection. Swarms of drones have emerged as a promising way to

Funding not stated 17 Nov 2026

Bioinformatician position in cancer research (F/M)

Institut Curie - Research Center · Administration

  • Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France, France
  • Medical sciences » Cancer research

The Curie Institute Research Center France’s leading cancer research and treatment centre, Institut Curie unites a renowned research centre and a specialist hospital, fostering close collaboration between scientists, clinicians and healthcare professionals. It offers an environment of excellence where expertise comes together around shared values: care, humanity, openness, collaboration, efficiency, innovation, soli

Fully funded 19 Nov 2026

PhD Position F/M Mesh partitioning for high performance solvers on Exascale computing systems

Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences

  • Villeurbanne, France
  • Computer science

This PhD will be part of the Horizon Europe HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-COE-LH-01-03 FEniCS Lighthouse project, which is fully funded and will start in January 2027. The other international partners of the project are Simula Research Laboratory, Norway; University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom; University College London, United Kingdom; University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Koç University, Türkiye; Sabancı Unive

Funding not stated 20 Nov 2026

HPC and radioastronomy algorithms specialist

Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

  • France
  • Astronomy

Contract : Short term research contract (CDD), full time, 1 year Level : PhD with work experience (up to 4 years). Remuneration : Gross salary of between €3,002 and €3,493 permonth, depending on experience. Workplace : Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur – 96 Boulevard de l'Observatoire, 06300 Nice, France https://www.oca.eu The specialist will work within the “Signal and Image” team in the J.-L. Lagrange laborato

Funding not stated 20 Nov 2026

PhD Position F/M RobDNA:Robust data retrieval for DNA-based data storage

Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences

  • LE CHESNAY CEDEX, France
  • Computer science

Context The volume of data generated worldwide is projected to approach 180 zettabytes (ZB) per year by 2025 [1]. However, current storage technologies face significant limitations in scaling sustainably to such volumes. One promising solution to address these challenges is DNA-based data storage, which offers several advantages, including extremely high data density, long-term retention, and low energy consumption [2]. From a density perspective, DNA can theoretically store up to 10 terabytes per mm³, which would allow all data generated throughout human history to be stored within a cube of

Funding not stated 22 Nov 2026

PhD in structural bioinformatics and modeling (M/F)

CNRS · Laboratoire de Biologie et Modélisation de la Cellule

  • LYON 07, France
  • History

The PhD student will be hosted at the Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell (LBMC, UMR5239) at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, within the DAMM team (led by Riccardo Pellarin and Juliette Martin). The team specializes in modeling macromolecular assemblies and using computational methods to study large-scale protein-protein interactions. The LBMC has privileged access to the resources of the Centre Blaise Pascal (CBP) and the Pôle Scientifique de Modélisation Numérique (PSMN), including high-performance computing clusters equipped with state-of-the-art GPUs (H200, GH200, A100, etc

Funding not stated 22 Nov 2026

Articuler espaces physiques et temporels : combiner réalité mixte et jumeau numérique pour l’analyse située des bâtiments et l’aide à la décision

Université de Sherbrooke

  • Toulouse, France
  • Computer science

Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer l’ouverture d’un contrat doctoral entièrement financé, co-encadré par le Pr Emmanuel Dubois (Université de Toulouse, France) et le Pr Charles Gouin-Vallerand (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada) : « Articuler espaces physiques et temporels : combiner réalité mixte et jumeau numérique pour l’analyse située des bâtiments et l’aide à la décision » (Bridging Temporal and Physical Spaces: Combining Mixed Reality and Digital Twin for Situated Building Analytics and Decision Support). Ce projet de recherche doctorale vise à explorer comment les technologies de réalité m

Funding not stated 23 Nov 2026

PhD Position MSCA COFUND BEST: "Hybrid PVD/ALD Multilayer Thin Film Deposition to Enhance Dielectric Breakdown Strength of Future High Voltage Electronic Devices for Sustainable Aeronautics"

University of Toulouse · LAPLACE Institute

  • Toulouse, France
  • Engineering, Chemistry, Technology
  • Dr. Sombel Diaham

Faced with the urgent challenges of climate change and the need to drastically reduce global CO2 emissions, the electrification of transport has emerged as a key lever for reducing reliance on fossil fuels [1-3]. With 13.9% of transport emissions, aviation is the second biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector after road transport [4], and air-traffic is going to continue to rise over the next decades [5]. Against this backdrop, the aviation industry is reinventing itself around the concepts of the "More Electric Aircraft" (MEA) and, in the longer term, "All Electric

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

PhD Position in optical coatings (MSCA-DN TRADES)

Institut Fresnel

  • Marseille, France
  • Physics

Optical interference filters offer a very broad range of optical functions for the control of the spectral properties of light. With the last 15-year improvement of both the design techniques and the manufacturing systems, the complexity of filters has dramatically increased. In particular, the combination of stable deposition processes and in-situ optical monitoring has allowed fabricating high performances filters that can be composed with several hundreds of layers. The filters structures are then no longer periodic and can exhibit a very broad range of thicknesses ranging from a few nanome

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

PhD Position F/M Predictable cache memories for Real-Time Embedded Multicore Systems

Inria, the French national research institute for the digital sciences

  • LE CHESNAY CEDEX, France
  • Computer science

The PhD student will work in the context of the ANR PRCI CoDaLi project, with Inria Rennes and the RPTU ( https://rptu.de/ ). The general objective of the CoCoDaLi project is to design and implement offline and runtime techniques that allow precise control cache contents in multi-core architectures for embedded real-time systems. The main idea is to take advantage of the content lifespan of cache blocks, in order to: • prevent the hardware replacement algorithm from removing useful cache blocks; • reduce the number of cache errors by placing the application memory in the appropriate cache line

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Neuro-inspired computing (e.g. reservoir computing) in coupled Double-Drum nanoelectromechanical resonator networks

CNRS IEMN · Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology

  • Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
  • Engineering, Physics

The French team at IEMN has developed a unique nanoelectromechanical resonator (NEMS) consisting of a silicon nitride drum capacitively coupled to an aluminium drum resonator, referred to as a double-drum resonator [1]. The team has recently achieved in implementing reservoir-computing in the coupled drum resonators and successfully fabricated networks of coupled double-drum resonators [2], based on the European CHIST-ERA NOEMIA project and the French ANR-MORETOME project. To date, basic reservoir-computing functionality and the training of an artificial neural network have been demonstrated u

Funding not stated 30 Nov 2026

Hepatology Research Fellowship

Institute for Translational Medicine and Liver Disease · UMR_S1110

  • Strasbourg, France
  • Medical sciences

The Institute for Translational Medicine and Liver Disease (ITM), Inserm U1110, University of Strasbourg France, is looking for a medical doctor to join our translational liver disease and cancer program as a physician scientist in a three-year program. The program is focussed to unravel novel strategies to treat hepatobiliary fibrosis (such as MASH and PSC) and liver cancer including hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma and is based on key scientific discoveries described in: Mailly et al. Nature Biotech 2015, Hamdane et al. Gastroenterology 2019, Juehling et al. Gut 2021, Crouchet et al. Na

Fully funded 7 Dec 2026

Vascular Surgeon, France

PhD-Jobs.NET

  • France
  • Medical sciences
  • Vitaly Pryadka

We are seeking Vascular Surgeons for our client, a private clinic, part of a healthcare group, located in a town in the Pays de la Loire region, approximately 1.5 hours by TGV from Paris. Expected salary (net monthly): EUR 5,000 - 10,000. Requirements & Expectations: Be a citizen of the European Union. Hold a medical degree and specialty degree from a university in the European Union. Speak French at a level that allows for at least good communication with patients (level B2). No language qualification will be required, but a mandatory interview will be held. Not have been subject to serious c

Fully funded 7 Dec 2026

Urological Surgeon, France

PhD-Jobs.NET

  • France
  • Medical sciences
  • Vitaly Pryadka

For our client, a private clinic in Carcassonne, located 1 hour from the Mediterranean Sea and Toulouse, we are seeking a Urological Surgeon to join a team of four partners (possibility of a partnership in the future). Expected salary (net monthly): EUR 5'000 - 10'000. Must work in sector 2 (fees). No robotic surgery. Mandatory participation in on-call care in cooperation with the local public hospital. Possibility of starting/trialing with replacements. Large patient base available thanks to a population of approximately 150,000 inhabitants. Requirements & Expectations: Be a citizen of the Eu

Funding not stated 7 Dec 2026

Specialist Radiology, France

PhD-Jobs.NET

  • France
  • Medical sciences
  • Vitaly Pryadka

For our client, we are looking for a Specialist Radiology. Remuneration & benefits: €120,000 to €150,000 net per year (depending on tax class, knowledge and experience). Requirements & expectations: Be a citizen of the European Union. Possess a medical degree specialising in general medicine from a university in the European Union (unfortunately we cannot consider applications from medical interns). Speak French at a level that allows at least good communication (B2 level) with patients. No language diploma will be required but a mandatory interview will take place Not have been subject to ser

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