Funded PhD position in Neuroscience- Alicante, Spain

Funded PhD position in Neuroscience- Alicante, Spain

Position: Ph.D. Student

Deadline: 1 July 2026

Contract Length: 4 years

Country: Spain

Department: Cellular and Systems Neurobiology

Description:

We look for highly motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic individuals with an interest in Neuroscience. Our team investigates the molecular and cell biological mechanisms that wire neural circuits for high-order cognitive and emotional processing, and how dysfunction of these processes drives neuropsychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia or depression.

The specific project will:

1. study how novel multi-protein complexes control neuroplasticity signaling in the prefrontal cortex, brain region that exerts top-down control over cognition and emotion and most sensitive to detrimental stress exposure;
2. identify synapse-level switches that can be targeted...