CERN typically selects around 40-50 doctoral students at each selection committee. Please note most of the projects are not published in advance.
The table below will be updated as HR receives new projects from supervisors.
The table below shows examples of projects that may be considered for the next Doctoral student selection round.
If you would be interested in working on any of these example projects, please state this in the "Note to hiring manager" text field when completing your application.
Please note that this is not mandatory and your application will be considered even if you have not stated a specific project. CERN cannot guarantee that successful applicants will be able to work on their requested projects.
Please note the upcoming selection committee will be taking place in May 2021.
Project Code |
Discipline |
Project Title |
Project Description |
BE-1 | Beams Physics |
Numerical modelling of long term evolution of colliding beams in the Large Hadron Collider |
http://cern.ch/go/g6gK |
EP-1 |
Applied Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry |
Production and purification of metastable xenon for the gamma-MRI |
http://cern.ch/go/F9sf |