Internships, Mentors & Tutors
See below for our " Research Internships ” available for the 2025–2026 academic year, as well as those from previous years for your reference:
CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTHCARE, PROTECTION & NUTRITION
Available internships
- Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors Featuring a Porphyrin Scaffold: Synthesis, Optical, and Biological Properties
- Development of novel molecularly targeted probes for profiling metalloprotease activity by MALDI-mass spectrometry in synovial fluid
- Multivalent iminosugars as new organocatalysts
- Novel nucleoside analogs for cancer treatment
- Dynamic vectors for RNA delivery
Bids submitted for review:
- Bioprinting of vascularized scaffolds for nerve tissue engineering – Description
- Gene-activated matrix for cartilage repair– Description
- Novel dynamic hydrogels produced by dual crosslinking of modified biopolymers for sustained drug release in cancer treatment – Description
- Development of novel molecularly targeted probes for profiling metalloprotease activity by MALDI-mass spectrometry in synovial fluid
- Mono- and multivalent iminosugar-based α-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 α-amino acids as new organocatalysts
- Nanothermometers for measuring intracellular temperature
- Structural Elucidation of Siderophores from Bacteria of the Genus Achromobacter
- Preparation of nanocrystals and nanocapsules of organic room-temperature phosphorescent luminescent materials 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
- Is this the end of political parties?
- Environmental Governance
- How does gender influence social practices and/or public policy?
- Citizenship in All Its Forms
- Changes to election rules
Bids currently open for review
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 as measured by an accelerometer
- Multiscale modeling of rhythmic auditory stimulation
- Video Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for the Early Detection of Handwriting Disorders in Children
- Characterizing the structure of reaching movements after a stroke to improve rehabilitation
- Synchronized EEG-fNIRS for Improved Brain Source Validation in Real-World Settings


Earth and Water in the Face of Global Change
Available internships
- Improving the robustness of hydrological models under changing climate conditions
- Integrated Modeling of Surface and Subsurface Compartments of Karst Hydrosystems
- A data-driven approach to modeling pollutant discharges from combined sewer overflows (CSO)
- Nature-Based Solutions for Addressing Droughts and Floods in Rural Areas: Spatial Indicators of NBS Efficiency at the Landscape Scale.
- Assessing the Influence of Urban Land Cover Classification on Hydrological Model Accuracy
- Melt-rock interaction in the oceanic lithosphere: A case study of the Bay of Islands Ophiolite, Newfoundland
- Towards "Intelligent" hydrogeological conceptual models of volcanic island aquifers
- Explainable AI (XAI) for Building Trust in Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Flash Flood Prediction
- Characterization and Monitoring of Saline Intrusions in the Coastal Aquifers of Roussillon
- Assessment of Water Resources Using an Interdisciplinary Approach in the Chyulu Hills
- Electrical current modeling and inversion in 3D fractured rocks
- Improving the robustness of hydrological models under changing climate conditions
- Tracking River Floods and Groundwater Recharge Areas in the Upper Mekong Delta Using SWOT and Sentinel-1
Bids currently open for review
- Focus on Persistent, Mobile, and Toxic Chemicals (PM/PMT): From Water Resources to Human Exposure
- Benefits and Risks of Storing Treated Wastewater for Irrigation
- Agrohydrological Infrastructure Management for Water Conservation
- Evaluation of Future Land Use Scenarios for Groundwater Protection and Sustainable Regional Development
- Predicting agricultural water use at the regional level – Can remote sensing help identify management guidelines?
- Modeling reactive transport processes in pore network models for karst applications
- Heat transfer processes in a fracture-matrix system 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: Brodifacoum in three compartments of a mangrove ecosystem
- Improving the Robustness of Hydrological Models Under Changing Climate Conditions
- Large-scale hydrodynamic modeling of the Upper Mekong Delta
- Production of available water content maps from existing soil property datasets using pedotransfer models – application to spatial crop modeling
- Targeted biochar amendments for improving agricultural water quality: What role do pesticide degradation mechanisms play?
- Understanding Changing Patterns of Water Use for Irrigation in Prey Veng Province, Cambodia
- Management of groundwater and its salinity among stakeholders in deltas: a case study of Sine Saloum, Senegal
- Fluid migration in sedimentary environments as a proxy for basin evolution: implications for resources, reservoirs, and storage
- Impact of the hydrological cycle in the corridors of altered rocks in the Grands Causses region, based on GNSS and InSAR measurements.
eco-epidemiology of emerging diseases
Available internships
Bids currently open for review


Management and Sustainable Transition
Available Internships
- Sustainability performance, reporting, and assurance
- Sustainable Entrepreneurship and SME Management
- Water management
Bids currently open for review
Modeling biological and environmental systems
Available internships
- Dynamics of Red Blood Cells in Shear Flow: From Experimental Observations to Clinical Applications
- A 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 - Population growth and decline in a fluctuating environment
- Transcriptional noise in Drosophila
Past tenders 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 self-assembly process driving bacterial DNA segregation
- Mechanobiology of Tree Growth
- Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Lake Pollution Forecasting(seePoster)
- Exploration of qualitative trajectories for robust validation of ecosystem modeling and development of a numerical tool(seePoster)
- Modeling population growth and mortality processes(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 using nanocellulose(seePoster)
- Red blood cell dynamics under flow: From the mechanics of individual cells to blood rheology
- Modeling ribosome movement during protein synthesis
- Mechanical characterization of skull base tumors
- Robot-assisted indentation of the skull base to determine the force at break
- Bacterial Flagellar Motor


Plant and Microbiological Sciences for the Agro-Environment
Available internships
- Evaluating potential non-target effects of a biocontrol agent on 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 ecosystems in the face of climate change: an integrative analysis
Contact: jessica.bertheloot@inrae.fr - Symbiont or Commensal: The Role of the Bacterium Enterococcus mundtii in the Gut of Spodoptera frugiperda
Contact: vincent.doublet@inrae.fr, sophie.gaudriault@inrae.fr
Bids currently open for review
- How do co-infections affect the epidemiological dynamics of two strains of the plum pox virus?(seePoster)
- Improving the effectiveness of biocontrol agents in the context of global change
- Modeling the morphodynamics of inflorescence development in rice
- Multiple infections and the evolution of the rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) in Burkina Faso
(Also available in the Ecology section) - The Role of the Cell Wall in Plant Metal Nutrition
Quantitative Biology: Molecular Mechanisms of Living Systems (qbio)
Available internships
- Analyzing the mechanisms by which intestinal AIECs promote macrophage-induced inflammation in Crohn’s disease
- Design of artificial stimulus-responsive polypeptides (SRPs)
- Inclusion of physical models in artificial neural networks
- A quantitative microscopy-based screening method for identifying inhibitors of protein-protein interactions
- From Genes to Growth Regulation: Toward a Theory of Cellular Economy
- Computational design of proteins that target the replication machinery of mononegavirales
- Structural basis of GPCR modulation: toward a new class of drugs?
- Lipid Environment and Heteromeric GPCR Interactions in Schizophrenia and Psychosis
- Functional analysis of enhancers that regulate memory formation in Drosophila
- Development of an inhibitor against the nematode nuclear receptor DAF-12 through structural and interaction studies
- Dynamics of Red Blood Cells in Shear Flow: From Experimental Observations to Clinical Applications
- Spatiotemporal Patterns of Fungal Bioluminescence


Quantitative Ecology & Evolution
Available internships
Bids currently open for review
- Evolution of Tetranychus evansi traits in coinfections
- Eco-evolutionary range dynamics in a changing world
- Resilience and long-term trends in vegetation dynamics in 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 on large scales using artificial intelligence: applications to bycatch dynamics in tropical pelagic fisheries.
- Multiple infections and the evolution of the rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) in Burkina Faso. (Also available in the Plants section)
- Understanding metacommunity dynamics in Mediterranean vernal pools
Science for Human Health
Available internships
- IDIL mentoring proposal on the resistance of melanoma to MAPK inhibitors
- Muscle dysfunction in patients with chronic kidney disease
- Cracking the glycan code that mediates immune tolerance in adipose tissue
- The Role of Non-coding RNAs and the Nuclear Exosome in Genome Organization
Bids currently open for review
- Toward the development of a human cellular model that mimics diaphragmatic dysfunction induced by mechanical ventilation
- Targeting the DDR1 collagen receptor to reverse immune evasion and treatment resistance in colorectal cancer
- Response to spinal cord injury and effects of CSF1R inhibition following spinal cord injury: the role of age and sex
- The 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
- Could furanic fatty acids be a new key component of a diet for healthy aging?
- Monitoring the metabolic activity of extracellular vesicles secreted by colorectal cancer cells
- scMel – Analysis of cellular heterogeneity using single-cell quantitative phosphoproteomics to predict the response of metastatic melanoma to MAPK inhibitors.
- Identification of the molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the health effects of furanic fatty acids
- The role of nestin in the motor and cellular response following spinal cord injury
- Study of the neurovirulence of arboviruses. One Health approaches
- Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders
- Epigenetic Regulation of Endogenous Retroviruses in the Liver: Impact on Liver Tumorigenesis
- Inter-organ communication during cancer-associated cachexia
- New factors influencing cell competition during development and cancer
- Molecular and genetic bases of mutualism between yeast and pollinating insects
- Targeting DDR1 activity in the collagen receptor to reduce tumor progression, resistance, and immune exclusion in colorectal cancer
- FLT3 and FLT3 alternative splicing variants in the pathophysiology of chronic pain
- Signaling and dynamics of the cytoskeleton
- A microfluidic approach to erythrocyte transport in diabetic retinopathy


PHOTONIC & ELECTRONIC SENSORS FOR ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Available internships
- Exotic structured laser light for advanced societal applications: toward THz sensing, data processing, and biophotonics
- Hyperspectral imaging data combined with climate data to predict stomatal conductance and transpiration in grapevines
- An Inkjet-Printed RFID-Enabled Humidity Sensor on Paper Based on a Biopolymer
- UHF RFID Anisotropic Magnetoresistance Sensor for Human Motion Monitoring
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for photoacoustic gas spectroscopy
- A powerful structured THz source based on novel photoconductive antennas utilizing III-V technologies for applications in agronomy and environmental monitoring
Bids currently open for review
- Optical tweezers for biomedical applications based on a structured photonics-based source for manipulating nanocrystals
- Semiconductor plasmonic nanoantennas for optical IR spectroscopy of endocrine disruptors
- Human motion monitoring using a UHF RFID wristband
- IR photoacoustic spectroscopy: state of the art, system development, packaging, and applications in gas detection
- Toward integrated photonic sensors
DIPLOMA IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ENGINEERING
Available internships
Bids currently open for review

The roles of mentors and tutors at idil
Mentors, Academic Advising (Master’s 1/2)
Researchers or Faculty Members
Provide personalized mentoring to their students throughout their two-year master’s program:
- Provides year-round support to students as they pursue their educational goals
- Provides personalized academic support
- Offers opportunities to connect with its professional network, labs, conferences, and more.
- Supervises the Research Internship
- Assistance with developing the Personal Project in consultation with the advisor (M1)
- Assistance with the development of the Multidisciplinary Project (M2)
If you'd like to become a mentor, please send an email tothe program coordinator.
Tutors, Academic Support (Master’s 1)
Faculty members
Provide personalized support to their students
during their first year of the Master’s program:
- Provides year-round support to students in their educational pursuits
- Assistance in developing the Personal Project in consultation with the mentor
- Tracks the progress of the immersion in the laboratory
If you'd like to become a tutor, please send an email tothe program coordinator.