Doctorat en Neurosciences et cognition at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Programme overview

Doctorat de l'Ecole Doctorale Neurosciences et cognition (ED476), a national doctorate recruiting at BAC+5 (master level) and leading to BAC+8, available as initial training and through validation of professional experience (VAE). It is awarded through the doctoral school ED476 NSCo at Lyon 1.

Faculty: Service des études doctorales | Department: ED476 NSCo | Study mode: full-time | Location: Villeurbanne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

What you will study

Research training in the doctoral school's disciplines: Neuroscience, natural cognition, cognitive psychology, neuroimaging, neurophysiology, functional neurobiology, neuropharmacology and clinical neuroscience.

Career pathways

Scientific research and development; health.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission to a doctorate at Lyon 1 requires a national master's degree or another diploma conferring the master grade (such as an engineering degree). Candidates find a thesis supervisor through the relevant doctoral school; admission requires the approval of the supervisor, the laboratory and the doctoral school director, followed by pedagogical registration in ADUM and administrative registration. Candidates must have funding at least equal to the minimum doctoral contract salary (1,848 EUR net per month from 1 January 2026), or 1,560 EUR net per month for holders of a foreign or government scholarship.

Requirements published at program group level.

EUR 398 a year (2026/2027). National registration fee for HDR and doctorate 2026/2027; doctoral students are not subject to differentiated fees. Excludes CVEC. Source

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