PhD program 2026: joint procedure to InLife & IPV
In 2026, the InLife Initiative and the Interfaces for the Living (IPV) PhD program are associated in a joint procedure to award PhD contracts. Click here to apply.
Calendar
12/01/2026 - 20/02/2026
Submission of the PhD projects to LimeSurvey
25/03/2026
Publication of selected projects
25/03/2026 - 24/04/2026
Submission of the candidate applications to LimeSurvey
12/05/2026
Interviews of candidates
18/05/2026
Publication of results
Recommendations
The scientific scope concerns all PhD projects adopting an interdisciplinary approach at the interface with life sciences:
- InLife's 2026 call for projects concerns the two priority scientific axes of the Initiative.
- IPV is renewing a broad call for projects without a priority theme.
Eligibility criteria imply PhD co-supervision between two different Doctoral Schools:
- InLife doctoral contracts: the main PhD director must be affiliated to the Sorbonne University Alliance.
- IPV doctoral contracts: the main PhD director must be affiliated to Sorbonne University.
- There are no affiliation restrictions for the PhD co-director.
Projects can be written in French or English. Evaluation is carried out by the InLife Executive Committee.
The projects have now been selected, see below.
Open projects for InLife & IPV - 2026
This year, the selected doctoral projects are proposed by the InLife initiative and IPV. Applicants can consult them, contact the project leaders, and then apply. The projects are presented for each doctoral school.
Cerveau, cognition, comportement (ED 158)
- Project: Neural dynamics underlying the processing of emotional memory during REM sleep - Project leader: Gabrielle Girardeau
- Project: Elucidating the theoretical and physiological basis of anti-correlated slow oscillation activity - Project leader: Elim Hong
- Project: 3D brain organoids: layering and stimulation using acoustic levitation - Project leader: Jean-Michel Peyrin
- Project: Investigating whether early-life cerebellar physical manipulation can reorient brain network and behavioral developmental trajectories in neurodevelopmental disorders - Project leader: Christelle Rochefort
Physique en Ile-de-France (ED 564)
- Project: Interactions et comportements collectifs des gyrins à l’interface air-eau - Project leader: Ramiro GODOY-DIANA
Sciences de la nature et de l'homme : évolution et écologie (ED 227)
- Project: Explorer l’espace fonctionnel et évolutif des enzymes marines par bioinformatique structurale et science des graphes de données - Project leader: Mathilde Carpentier
- Project: Évolution des alcaloïdes et adaptations chez les Ranunculaceae (Angiospermae) - Project leader: Jean-Yves Dubuisson
- Project: L’irrésistible ascension des reptiles au Trias - Project leader: Michel Laurin
- Project: Biomechanics, functional morphology, and evolution of the digits in arboreal mammals - Project leader: Grégoire Métais
- Project: Engineering synthetic cell lines for deciphering the histone code regulatory network - Project leader: Julien Mozziconacci
- Project: Rôle de la spatialisation des modèles de distribution d'espèces pour la compréhension et la prédiction des changements de biodiversité - Project leader: Emmanuelle Porcher
- Project: Neural control and biomechanics of birdsong: linking song-control circuits to vocal apparatus biomechanics - Project leader: Pauline Provini
Complexité du vivant (ED 515)
- Project: Mechanophysiology of Bacterial Microcolonies - Project leader: Nicolas Biais
- Project: Role of inter-tissue mechanical coupling in the early morphogenesis of the olfactory placode in teleost fish - Project leader: Marie Breau
- Project: Mission-GLACE :biochiMie, évolutIon et outilS predictiveS pour des protéInes de liaisON à la GLACE - Project leader: Richard Dorrell
- Project: Interfacial regulation of seed lipid droplets by PEBP proteins: from plant genetics to quantitative soft-matter reconstitution - Project leader: Maria Victoria GOMEZ ROLDAN
- Project: Biomimetic reconstruction of a human embryonic aorta-on-chip for the generation of transplantable hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells - Project leader: Thierry Jaffredo
- Project: Decoding Convergent Evolution in the Human T Cell Repertoire: A Systems Approach to Autoimmune Biomarkers - Project leader: Mariotti-Ferrandiz Encarnita
- Project: Mechanical and hydrodynamic roles of tissue and fluid flows in animal morphogenesis - Project leader: Tsuyoshi MOMOSE
- Project: Cell-free synthetic biology platforms for accelerated discovery of modified antimicrobial peptides - Porteur de projet : Amir Pandi
- Project: Predicting the mutational signature of double strand break repair - Project leader: Zhou XU
Chimie moléculaire de Paris centre (ED 406)
- Project: Tackling Neurological Off-target Side Effects of Platinum Chemotherapeutics using Redox Modulation - Project leader: Hélène Bertrand
- Project: Development of Fluorescent Substrates of the Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter for Chemical Imaging of Cholinergic Neurotransmission - Project leader: Blaise Dumat
- Project: Anthraquinone Photoclick Chemistry to Probe the Intracellular Fate of Cell-Penetrating Peptides - Project leader: Astrid Walrant
Sciences mathématiques de Paris Centre (ED 386)
- Project: Federated Generative Modeling for Predictive Analysis of Microbiome Data - Project leader: Le Corff Sylvain
Chimie physique et chimie analytique de Paris Centre (ED 388)
- Project: Controlling and interfering with pathological condensates in ALS disease-relevant cell models - Project leader: Zoher GUEROUI
- Project: Programming the cytosolic fate of magnetic nanoparticles: fusogenic delivery, extracellular vesicle encapsulation, and hydrodynamic-driven bioproduction - Project leader: Emilie Secret
- Project: On-chip fertilization: Deciphering the mechanical and molecular cues of fertilization and sperm neutralization under controlled microenvironment - Project leader: Ayako Yamada
Physique en Ile-de-France (ED 564)
- Project: Rôle des fibroblastes dans la ségrégation des cellules cancéreuses d’Ewing - Project leader: Isabelle Bonnet
- Project: Vestibular control of posture in a vertebrate from behavior to spinal circuit dynamics - Project leader: Volker Bormuth
- Project: Effets de mémoire en migration cellulaire - Project leader: Raphael Voituriez
Physique et chimie des matériaux (ED 397)
- Project: Gold nanoparticles decorated with POMs-Bisphosphonates for targeted treatment of bone cancers - Project leader: Anne Vallée
- Project: Collagen-based bilayered biomimetic tubular materials for airway applications - Project leader: Francisco Fernandes
Géosciences, ressources naturelles et environnement (ED 398)
- Project: Identification des microorganismes sources et étude du mécanisme adaptatif de lipides membranaires bactériens utilisés comme marqueurs d’environnement - Project leader: Arnaud Huguet
Physiologie, physiopathologie et thérapeutique (ED 394)
- Project: Systems-Level Modeling of Mucosal Host–Microbiome Interactions in Crohn’s Disease - Project leader: Philippe Seksik
Sciences de l’ingénieur (ED71) de l'UTC
- Project: Hyperthermia for Controlling/Triggering Functionalities in Biopolymer-based Nanostructured Electrospun Scaffolds - Project leader: Fahmi Bedoui
- Project: Nanomatériaux agrosourcés par impression moléculaire pour l’administration d’agents de biocontrôle et étude de leurs effets sur des plantes modèles (PlantMIP) - Project leader: Aude Cordin