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.


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 News & Events

20.03.2023
 

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...

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...

 PhD Stories

 Defenses

03.08.2021
 

PhD Defense of Maria Velkova: 09.09.2021, 16:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Biology.

"Identification of the Caenorhabditis elegans RMI2 homolog RMIF-2 and its role in the...

31.05.2021
 

PhD Defense of Jessie Adriaense: 10.06.2021, 14:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology, focus Natural Sciences.

"An interdisciplinary investigation of the ultimate and proximate...

24.05.2021
 

PhD Defense of Jane Boddy: 31.05.2021, 10:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Art History

"Hypersensitivity. Universalist Strategies in Endell, Avenarius and Kandinsky, 1890–1920" ...

14.04.2021
 

PhD Defense of Raffaela Lesch: 29.04.2021, 17:00

Public Defese in the Doctoral Research Field: Biology.

"Tame Voices: An investigation into human-animal communication and the effects of artificial...

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