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

24.02.2023
 

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

24.02.2023
 

The seminar will revolve around a discussion of Blaise Pascal’s statement that “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing about” in light...

24.02.2023
 

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...

15.02.2023
 

This year's focus of the annual spring school *Interdisciplinary College 2023* (IK2023) is *"Dynamics of Experience - Minds, Bodies, and Things"*. ...

13.02.2023
 

The Bank Austria Foundation offers a main award in the amount of € 4.000,-- and two merit awards of € 1.000,-- each. The target group of this prize...

01.02.2023
 

It's a pleasure to announce the 2nd Annual Doctoral Student Conference - the VDS CoBeNe PhD Academy for 01.-03. February 2023 at the main building of...

 Defenses

14.09.2021
 

PhD Defense of Birgit Pöhn: 22.09.2021, 10:00

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Molecular Biology.

"Molecular Aspects of reproductive timing on different timescales in marine...

07.09.2021
 

PhD Defense of Theresa Zekoll: 21.09.2021, 10:45

Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Molecular Biology.

"Analysis of non-visual opsins in the Medaka fish brain"

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...

 Books