Internships, mentors & Tutors
Find below our offers for " Research Internships available for the 2025-2026 academic year, as well as those from previous years for reference:
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTHCARE, PROTECTION & NUTRITION
Available internships
- Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors Featuring a Porphyrin Scaffold: Synthesis, Optical and Biological Properties
- Development of novel molecular targeted probes for profiling metalloprotease activities by MALDI mass spectrometry in synovial fluid
- Multivalent iminosugars as new organocatalysts
- Original nucleoside analogues for cancer treatments
- Dynamic vectors for RNA delivery
Past offers for consultation:
- Bioprinting of vascularized scaffolds for nerve tissue engineering – Description
- Gene-activated matrix for cartilage repair– Description
- Novel dynamic hydrogels by dual crosslinking of modified biopolymers for sustained drug release in cancer treatment – Description
- Development of novel molecular targeted probes for profiling metalloprotease activities by MALDI mass spectrometry in synovial fluid
- Mono- and multivalent iminosugar-based a-amino acids as new organocatalysts
- Activity-based probes targeting metalloproteases: toward the profiling of these enzymes in vivo?
- Electrospun Fiber-Based Membrane Condenser for Atmospheric Water Recovery
- Mono- and multivalent iminosugar-based a-amino acids as new organocatalysts
- Nanothermometers for intracellular temperature measurements
- Structural Elucidation of Siderophores from Bacteria of the genus Achromobacter
- Preparation of nanocrystals and nanocapsules of organic room temperature phosphorescent phosphors for biological applications.
- Multifunctional Nanoparticles for Microglia Modulation
- Activity-based probes targeting metalloproteases: toward the profiling of these enzymes in vivo?
- BIOSOURCED ANTIOXIDANTS FROM LIGNIN


Comparative Politics and Public Policy
Available internships
- Towards the end of political parties?
- Governing the environment
- How does gender influence social practices and/or public policy?
- Citizenship in all its forms
- Changes to electoral rules
Past offers for consultation
Digital and Movement Sciences for Health (DIGIMOVE)
Available internships
- Multimodal Analysis of Spontaneous Gestures and Speech in Dyadic Interaction
- Modeling the recurrence of a new physical activity habit assessed by accelerometer
- Multiscale modeling of rhythmic auditory stimulation
- Video Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Early Detection of Handwriting Disorders in Children
- Characterizing the structure of reaching movements after a stroke for better rehabilitation
- Synchronized EEG-fNIRS for Enhanced Brain Source Validation in Real Settings


Earth and water under global change
Available internships
- Improving the robustness of hydrological models under changing climate conditions
- Integrated Modeling of Surface and Subsurface Compartments of Karst Hydrosystems
- Data-driven approach for modeling pollutant discharges from combined sewer overflows (CSO)
- Nature-Based Solutions for tackling droughts and floods in rural areas: Spatial indicators of NBS efficiency at landscape-scale.
- Assessing the Influence of Urban Surface Classification on Hydrological Model Accuracy
- Interaction between melt and rock in the oceanic lithosphere Case study of the Bay of Islands Ophiolite, Newfoundland
- Towards ‘Intelligent’ hydrogeological conceptual models of volcanic island aquifers
- Explainable AI (XAI) for trust building in artificial intelligence Applications in Flash Flood Prediction
- Characterization and monitoring of saline intrusions in the coastal aquifers of Roussillon
- Assessment of water resources from an interdisciplinary approach in the Chyulu Hills
- Modeling and inversion of electrical currents in 3D fractured rocks
- Improving the robustness of hydrological models under changing climate conditions
- Tracking River Flooding and Groundwater Recharge Areas in the Upper Mekong Delta using SWOT and Sentinel-1
Past offers for consultation
- Focus on Persistent, Mobile and Toxic chemicals (PM/PMT): from water resources to human exposure
- Benefits and risks of treated wastewater storage for irrigation
- Management of agrohydrological infrastructure for water conservation
- Evaluation of Future Land Use Scenarios for Groundwater Protection and Territorial Sustainable Development
- Predicting agricultural water use at territorial scale – CanRemote Sensing help identify management rules?
- Modeling reactive transport processes in pore network models for karst applications
- Heat transport processes in fracture-matrix systems under stress conditions
- Sensitivity of urban hydrological modeling to land-use mapping and very fine-scale precipitation variability
- Determination of hydrodynamic parameters of complex aquifers from spring hydrographs
- Method development for detecting a phytosanitary vitamin K antagonist molecule: Brodifacoum in three compartments of a mangrove ecosystem
- Improving the robustness of Hydrical Models under Changing Climate Conditions
- Large-scale hydrodynamic modeling of the UPPER Mekong Delta
- Production of available water content maps from existing soil properties datasets using pedotransfer models – application to spatial crop modeling
- Targeted biochar amendments for agricultural water quality improvement: what is the contribution of pesticide degradation mechanisms?
- Understanding shifting patterns of water use for irrigation in Prey Veng Province, Cambodia
- Management of groundwater and its salinity among stakeholders in deltas: application to Sine Saloum, Senegal
- Fluid migration in sedimentary contexts as a proxy for basin evolution: implications for resources, reservoirs, and storage
- Impact of the hydrological cycle in the corridors of altered rocks of the Grands Causses region based on GNSS and InSAR measurements.
eco-epidemiology of emerging diseases


Management and Sustainable Transition
Internships available
- Sustainability performance, reporting, and assurance
- Entrepreneurship durable et gestion des PME
- Gestion de l'eau
Past offers for consultation
Modeling Biological and Environmental Systems
Available internships
- Dynamics of Red Blood Cells in Shear Flow: From Experimental Observations to Clinical Applications
- Molecular Dynamics Approach to Water Sorption Phenomena in Wood
- New DEM modeling of the knee joint for the study of ligament forces during deep flexion
- Energy transfer from wind to waves: how far does it go?
- Modeling Axonal mRNA Active Transport and Translation
Contact: andrea.parmeggiani@umontpellier.fr - Modeling Cellular Populations During Osteoarthritic Crisis
Contact: andrea.parmeggiani@umontpellier.fr - Growth and death of populations in a fluctuating environment
- Transcriptional noise in Drosophila
Past offers for consultation - Contribution of Automatic Control to Epidemiology – Description
- From the structure of sponges to the physics of granular media – Description
- Measurements and simulations of a swimming bacterium trapped in optical tweezers
- Langevin dynamic simulations of the energy landscape of rotary molecular motors
- Biophysical modeling of the auto-assembly driving bacterial DNA segregation
- Mechanobiology of Tree Growth
- Physics Informed Machine Learning for lake pollution forecast(seePoster)
- Exploration of qualitative trajectories for robust validation of ecosystem modeling and development of a numerical tool(seePoster)
- Modeling growth and death processes of populations(seePoster)
- Langevin dynamic simulations of the energy landscape of rotary molecular motors
- Theoretical modeling of rotating respiratory saliva dumbbells(seePoster)
- Modeling axonal trafficking and protein synthesis
- Capture of nanoplastics with nanocellulose(seePoster)
- Red blood cell dynamics under flow. From the mechanics of single cells to blood rheology
- Modeling ribosome motion during genetic translation
- Mechanical characterization of skull base tumors
- Skull base robot-assisted indentation to identify force at break
- Bacterial Flagellar Motor


Plant and microbiological sciences for agro-environment
Available internships
- Evaluating putative non-target effects of a biocontrol agent against solitary bees. Contact: julien.brillard@umontpellier.fr, quentin.petitjean@inrae.fr
- From Molecular Weapons to Microbial Ecosystems: Studying the Ecological Role of Anti-Eukaryotic Type VI Secretion Systems
Contact: guillaume.charriere@umontpellier.fr - Maintaining the resilience of spikes faced with climate change: an integrative analysis
Contact: jessica.bertheloot@inrae.fr - Symbiont or commensal: The role of the bacteria Enterococcus mundtii in the gut of Spodoptera frugiperda
Contact: vincent.doublet@inrae.fr, sophie.gaudriault@inrae.fr
Past offers for consultation
- How do co-infections affect the epidemiological dynamics of two strains of the plum pox virus?(seePoster)
- Improving the efficiency of biocontrol agents in the context of global change
- Modeling the morphodynamics of inflorescence development in rice
- Multiple infections and evolution of the rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) in Burkina Faso
(Also available in the Ecology course) - Role of cell wall in plant metal nutrition
Quantitative Biology: Molecular mechanisms of living systems (qbio)
Available internships
- Dissecting the mechanisms by which intestinal AIEC promote macrophage-induced inflammation during Crohn's disease
- Design of artificial stimuli-responsive polypeptides (SRPs)
- Inclusion of physical models in artificial neural networks
- Quantitative microscopy-based screening method to identify inhibitors of protein-protein interaction
- From Genes to Growth Regulation: Towards a Theory of Cellular Economy
- Computational design of proteins targeting the replication machinery of mononegavirales
- Structural basis of GPCR modulation: towards a new class of medicines?
- Lipid Environment and Heteromeric GPCR Interactions in Schizophrenia and Psychosis
- Functional analysis of enhancers controlling memory formation in Drosophila
- Development of an inhibitor against the nuclear receptor DAF 12 from nematodes by structural and interaction studies
- Dynamics of Red Blood Cells in Shear Flow: From Experimental Observations to Clinical Applications
- Spatio-temporal Patterns of Fungal Bioluminescence


Quantitative ecology and evolution
Available internships
Past offers for consultation
- Evolution of Tetranychus evansi traits in coinfections
- Eco-evolutionary range dynamics in a changing world
- Resilience and long-term trends in vegetation dynamics of global drylands
- The ecosystem service bundle viewed as an interaction network
- Adaptive management of a large carnivore using Bayesian forecasting and state-space models
- Understanding spatio-temporal dynamics at large scales using artificial intelligence: applications to bycatch dynamics in tropical pelagic fisheries.
- Multiple infections and evolution of the rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) in Burkina Faso. (Also available in the Plants section)
- Understanding metacommunity dynamics in Mediterranean vernal pools
Sciences for human health
Available internships
- IDIL mentoring proposal on the resistance of melanoma to MAPK inhibitors
- Muscle dysfunctions in patients with chronic kidney disease
- Cracking the glycan code mediating immune tolerance of adipose tissue
- Role of Non-coding RNAs and the Nuclear Exosome in Genome Organization
Past offers for consultation
- Towards the development of a human cell model mimicking diaphragmatic dysfunction induced by mechanical ventilation
- Targeting the DDR1 collagen receptor to reverse immune evasion and therapeutic resistance in colorectal cancer
- Response to spinal cord injury and effects induced by CSF1R inhibition after spinal injury: role of age and gender
- Role of proteins involved in epithelial integrity and polarity, regulated by (de)phosphorylation by Syk or PTPN13, in breast tumor invasion
- Muscle dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease
- Furanoic acids: a new key player in healthy aging?
- Control of the metabolic activity of extracellular vesicles secreted by colorectal cancer cells
- scMel – Analysis of cellular heterogeneity by quantitative phosphoproteomics on single cells to predict the response of metastatic melanoma to MAPK inhibitors.
- Identification of molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the health effects of furanic acids
- Role of nestin in motor and cellular response after spinal cord injury
- Study of arbovirus neurovirulence. One Health approaches
- Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders
- Epigenetic Regulation of Endogenous Retrovirus in the Liver, Impact on Liver Tumorigenesis
- Inter-organ communications during cancer-associated cachexia
- New effectors of cell competition during development and cancer
- Molecular and genetic bases of mutualism between yeasts and pollinating insects
- Targeting Collagen receptor DDR1 activity in colorectal cancer to reduce tumor progression, resistance, and immune exclusion
- FLT3 and FLT3 alternative splice variants in the pathophysiology of chronic pain
- Signaling and cytoskeletal dynamics
- Microfluidic approach to erythrocyte transport in diabetic retinopathy


PHOTONIC & ELECTRONIC SENSORS FOR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Available internships
- Exotic structured laser light for enhanced societal applications: towards THz sensing, data processing, biophotonics
- Hyperspectral imaging data combined with climate data to predict stomatal conductance and transpiration of grapevine plants
- An inkjet-printed RFID-enabled humidity sensor on paper based on biopolymer
- UHF RFID Anisotropic Magnetoresistance Sensor for Human Motion Monitoring
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for photoacoustic gas spectroscopy
- Powerful structured THz source based on original photoconductive antennas based on III-V technologies applied to agronomy and environmental monitoring
Past offers for consultation
- Optical tweezers for biomedical applications based on a structured photonics-based source for nano-crystal manipulation
- Semiconductor plasmonic nanoantennas for optical IR spectroscopy of endocrine disruptors
- Monitoring human motion via UHF RFID wristband
- Photoacoustic spectroscopy: state of the art, system development, packaging, and applications to gas detection
- Toward integrated photonic sensors
RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ENGINEER DIPLOMA
Available internships
Past offers for consultation

The roles of mentors and tutors within idil
Mentors, scientific support (M1/M2)
Researchers or Research Professors
Provide personalized support to their mentees at
throughout their two-year Master's program:
- Supports students throughout the year in their educational projects
- Provides personalized disciplinary supplements
- Offers meetings with its professional network, labs, conferences, etc.
- Supervises the Research Internship
- Assistance with developing the Personal Project in consultation with the tutor (M1)
- Assistance in developing the Multidisciplinary Project (M2)
If you would like to become a mentor, please send an email tothe manager of the relevant program.
Tutors, academic support (M1)
Faculty members
Provide personalized support to their tutored students at
during their first year of the Master's program:
- Supports students throughout the year in their educational projects
- Help with developing the Personal Project in consultation with the mentor
- Monitors immersion progress in the laboratory
If you would like to become a tutor, please send an email tothe manager of the relevant course.