Fully granted PhD positions in Digital Science / Digital Society at Université Côte d’Azur - France

Digital Systems for Humans (DS4H) is a Graduate School and a pluridisciplinary research coordination structure focused on scientific, technological and human issues of the digital world and the digital society. It is part of Université Côte d’Azur, one of the ten French most research-intensive universities.

In 2025 we are awarding 8 research grants targeting 3 thematic priorities:

• Digital and Social Sciences
• Digital and the Environment
• Applied quantum technologies 

The list of this year open subjects will be updated daily on our website until May, 5th. Visit us regularly!

Inspiring research environment

As a doctoral student at Université Côte d'Azur, you will be provided with a very high-quality hosting environment:

• Attractive salary: doctoral candidates will get a net salary of ~2045 € as monthly living allowance (annual gross ~40,7 k€ - please notice this amount may change according to regulatory changes that may occur between now and the beginning of the contract and throughout the contract). An additional allowance of 10 K€ will be allocated by DS4H Graduate school to selected subjects submitted before 2025 April, 13th (23h59).
• Excellent research environment including international-renowned laboratories with long-standing practices for leading doctoral projects and the lab/industry cross-fertilization in Nice-Sophia Antipolis, the fast-paced European largest technopark.
• Interdisciplinary research options as cross-domain vision lies at the heart of the Digital Systems for Humans Graduate school project.
• International networking: researchers from dozens of different nationalities work together in our laboratories and almost 70% of the PhD students are foreigners. Moreover, Université Côte d'Azur is co-founder of the UlyssEUs European University Alliance and a strategic partner of the University Laval, Canada. Read more about Université Côte d'Azur worldwide...
• PhD mobility support program: DocWalker
• Additional training modules to boost your career (minors, student supervision training, scientific mediation, etc.).
• Specific PhD candidates individual support from Université Côte d'Azur (housing, administrative procedures, child-care solutions, newcomers meetups...).
• Active doctoral student life with ADAMS Association and ADSTIC: academic and unifying events, scientific seminars, parties…
• ... and the world-envied French Riviera quality of life!

Application deadline: 5 May 2025
Interviews: from the beginning of May to early June