Posted:
June 08, 2026
Location:
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Job Description

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

To be a doctoral student means to devote oneself to a research project under supervision of experienced researchers and following an individual study plan. For a doctoral degree, the equivalent of four years of full-time doctoral education is required.

Are you passionate about decoding how brain-wide neural dynamics generate behavior?

The at Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Stockholm is recruiting a PhD student in computational neuroscience. The lab is based at the Department of Neuroscience (Biomedicum) and is part of SciLifeLab, Swedens national center for large-scale biosciences and data-driven life science.

Our mission is to uncover the neural and neurohormonal principles that govern instinctual and homeostatic behaviors, including aggression, fear, feeding, and social interactions.

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Job Overview

Job Type: full-time
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Posted: June 08, 2026
Deadline: July 18, 2026