PhD COURSES

Please read the individual course descriptions for registration modalities and access to course materials. Please note:
– Events with no dates or “tba” have no schedule announced for the moment … If a semester is indicated, the course will be available again soon …
– PhD candidates are also strongly encouraged to participate in local journal clubs and seminar series
– Information on credit validation and more course offers can be found HERE

Course title	ECTS	Dates
Cours électro-mécanique du CMU (4 modules in Geneva, in French)	0.5-2	Dec 11 – Apr 4, 2025
How to identify the most suitable questionnaires and rating scales for your clinical practice or research? (online; register before Feb 12)	1	Feb 26 – Apr 2, 2025
SYNAPSY NETWORK TRAINING on TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY (several modules; register before Jan 15)	0.5 per module	start: Jan 30, 2025
Introduction to Biophotonics (Geneva & online; register before Feb 15)	3	Feb 19 – Apr 23, 2025
Neurological disorders: From pathophysiology to neuroscience – Spring Module S (Lausanne)	2	Feb 25 – May 27, 2025
Last minute ad: Mini-Symposium: Language, Cognition, and Perception: Exploring the Intersections of Grammar, Time, and Learning (Geneva)	0.25/ 0.5	Mar 7, 2025
Electrical Neuroimaging for the Investigation of Human Brain Functions (Geneva; fully booked)	1	Mar 6 – Apr 10, 2025
Inborn Diseases of Metabolism Affecting Brain Development (Lausanne; register before Feb 20)	1	Mar 19 – Apr 16, 2025
UNIL Sleep Research Day (Lausanne, register before April 1)	max 1	Apr 4, 2025
Observational methods in psychological research: Insights from developmental and psychotherapy research (Lausanne; register before March 15)	1	Apr 15 – May 6, 2025
Save the date: Diffusion MR Imaging: from physics to brain networks (Lausanne)	2.5	May 19-26, 2025
Research methods in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Lausanne; register before Sep 1)	1	Sep 12 – Oct 27, 2025
Neurological disorders: From pathophysiology to neuroscience – Autumn Module A (Lausanne)	1.5	A2025
Introduction to Psychotherapy Research (Lausanne; register before October 1)	2	Oct 31 – Dec 12, 2025
How to develop the protocol of your systematic review and register it in International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (online)	2	A2025
An introduction to developmental cognitive neuroscience (Lausanne)	1	tba
Diffusion MR Imaging: from physics to brain networks	tba	tba
Good Research Practices and Research Ethics (GRP; Lausanne)	tba	tba
Introduction to fluorescence imaging for the analysis of living cells	1	Jan2026
Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM; credit only with presentation and assessment work > contact LNDS coordinator for details)		again in Jan 26
Publish with APA (Lausanne)		tba
Dive into the daily lives of individuals in real time: Introduction to the Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA; Lausanne)		tba
Journal club series in the Lemanic area open to LNDS students
Seminar series “QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES IN PSYCHIATRY” (Lausanne & online with self-enrollment!)	max. 1	Sep 30 – Jun 26, 2025

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EPFL-EDNE courses: LNDS PhD students can basically attend most courses of the EPFL PhD program in neuroscience (EDNE). To inquire about free spots in classes, please first write to the EDNE coordinator (edne@epfl.ch) from your work mail address (with the LN coordinator in copy). You will then receive a link towards the online registration platform of EPFL (have a scan of your PhD student card ready to attach if needed). Participation to EPFL courses is free for LNDS candidates.
Once you successfully finished a course, please send the EPFL credit transcript from IS-Academia (“Statement of results” > “Auditor plan” to the LNDS coordinator for credit validation . 

Other EPFL PhD courses: Please contact the LNDS coordinator to ask for credit validation before choosing a given course, and to be re-directed to the EPFL program coordinator in charge. If your wish can be granted, please fill the “external auditor form” and send it to “cours-edoc@epfl.ch” together with a scan of your PhD student card.

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The CUSO (Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale) offers a range of courses on research-related soft skills (e.g. scientific writing). Moreover, several doctoral programs provide courses on statistics, research and analysis methods, for example:

• Romandie Psychology program (with many statistics courses open to non-psychologists)
• Ecology and Evolution
• Microbiology
• StarOmics

Each LNDS student can participate to these courses, but you need to create a CUSO login for registration. Please provide the LNDS coordinator with your course certificate and a course link for credit validation.

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