Interested in PhD research in Psychology, Cognition, Behavior or Neuroscience?

The VDS CoBeNe Doctoral Program emerged from an integrative and interdisciplinary alliance of four independent research areas in Psychological Science, Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, Neuroscience and the Cognitive Humanities. The research questions deal with the influence of social and ecological factors on human and non-human cognition and behavior, understanding its underlying cognitive, emotional, physiological, and neurological bases, and probing their evolutionary origins and development.

The mission of the Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience is to enhance academic and professional development of early career researcher, advance intellectual communication and scholarship across disciplines, and promote cultural diversity, scientific integrity, and international collaboration. VDS CoBeNe fosters structured doctoral education at the University of Vienna and creates an environment supporting interdisciplinary research and research training.



 News & Events

15.03.2023
 

The Philosophy and Mathematics of Situated Agency conference aims to bring together thinkers in the fields of cognitive science, philosophy of mind,...

14.03.2023
 

Seven public lectures from the Vienna CogSciHub environment will take place in the summer semester 2023 as part of the Young Science event series at...

10.03.2023
 

The biomedical entrepreneurship innovation lab (Biomed ilab) is a programme of the University of Vienna to support the development of...

06.03.2023
 

The idea of digital transition evokes a feeling of disruption, but also of inevitability and becoming, mixing the voluntarism or the design of the...

02.03.2023
 

While the majority of people care about environmental quality, they keep engaging in carbon-intensive practices that exacerbate climate change. Can we...

24.02.2023
 

How could physical concepts such as coherence, dis(-)continuity, superposition, absorption or diffusion be transfarred into the language of dance? How...

 Defenses

18.07.2022
 

PhD Defense of Helena Hartmann: 18.07.2022, 15:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology.

“Another’s pain in my brain: Clarifying the specificity of shared representations of pain...

08.07.2022
 

PhD Defense of Andreas Goreis: 08.07.2022, 11:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology.

“Psychobiological Impact of Ethnic Discrimination”

02.06.2022
 

PhD Defense of Isabelle Maiditsch: 02.06.2022, 17:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Biology.

"Ecological constraints and sound communication in fishes: the croaking gourami and the...

06.05.2022
 

PhD Defense of Andre Hartmann: 29.04.2022, 11:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology.

“Determinants of the Taxpayment Decision: Inside and Outside the Laboratory"

05.04.2022
 

PhD Defense of Esmeralda Urquiza Haas: 20.04.2022, 16:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Biology.

"Anthropomorphizing animals and objects: the role of motion and context in the attribution of...

04.04.2022
 

PhD Defense of Blance Spee: 05.04.2022, 18:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology.

“Neuromodulatory and Neuropsychopharmacological Perspectives on Art Interaction in the...

 Books