The value of a PhD project – Training through research
Conducting a PhD project provides young engineers and scientist with a robust background for their future career, be it in the academic or private sector. Through exposure and direct contribution to research, you will gain scientific and technical expertise, train your communication skills, develop project management and collaborative working methods, and build a network. Close to 100% of our PhDs get employed very soon after graduating, with an equal share between the academic and private sector, largely in R&D for the latter case.
The various ways to work as a a PhD at SPINTEC
We regularly open PhD positions with readily-available grants based on our own funding. Such positions are advertised below, when available. Besides this, there are a significant number of programs to apply for grants, in a joint project involving the candidate and the laboratory, as listed below. A list of research topics for which we are seeking candidates is updated on a yearly basis, typically during the Fall, to be displayed on this page. The list of topics proposed for Master-2 internships already provides a good starting point.
Part of our PhD projects are conducted in an international collaborative framework with a foreign university. This can take the form of a co-funding and co-tutella with a joint degree, or secondments with duration of a few months or longer.
Some PhD funding agencies
- A significant share of the PhD grants at SPINTEC are covered by ongoing projects funded by either the French National Research Agency ANR, or European projects.
- Doctorate schools. We are mostly connected to the Physis and the Electronics, Electrical Energy, Automatic Control and Signal Processing doctoral Schools.
- LANEF excellence action.
- Materials, Physics and Engineering Institute of Université Grenoble Alpes.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
- Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- CIFRE grants, funded with an industrial partner.
Latest positions posted
- PhD offer – PRObabilistic on-edge learning for SPINtronic-based neuromorphic systems [May 13th, 2025]
Thesis topic PRObablistic on-edge learning for SPINtronic-based neuromorphic systems Job description The hired joint UGA – KIT PHD candidate should be able to cover the work of the workpackage 1 and 2. He/she will also participate to technical ... - PhD position – Spin transfer torque magnetic field sensing [June 14th, 2024]
Topic PhD scholarship to work on a novel sensing approach exploring spin transfer torque (STT) for magnetic field sensing in perpendicular anisotropy magnetic tunnel junctions. The project aims at high-density low power consumption sensors, departing from ... - PhD position – High-throughput screening of 2D spintronic materials [March 07th, 2024]
Topic In the context of the PEPR SPIN exploratory program aiming at the development of spintronics at the French national level, applications are invited for a PhD position in the fields of computational materials science, condensed ... - PhD and Postdoc offer – Exploring novel hardware approaches based on spintronics nano-oscillators for unconventional computing [February 26th, 2024]
One PhD position and one 12 months postdoc position are available for the following topic. Spintronics concepts and devices, such as magnetic tunnel junctions, offer novel low power hardware approaches for implementing unconventional computing schemes. Some ... - Recruiting a PhD to develop a skyrmion-based magnetic field sensor [May 12th, 2023]
Position: Skyrmions are circular magnetic domains of (sub-)micron size with increasing interest to the scientific community, considering to use them for information encoding. The aim of this thesis is to exploit the potential of skyrmions in ...
