Working at Nantes Université

Nantes Université gathers more than 3700 staff members working on 6 different campuses, located in the cities of Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon*. Accordingly, it stands for one of the main employers in the region Pays de la Loire and plays a key role in the city of Nantes’ development. One out twelve inhabitants of the city either studies or works at the University.

The fifty years-old creative and audacious university has taken education training and research to the highest level as well as to place students at the center of its ambition.
In order to face this fast transformation, Nantes Université recruits every year numerous staff members with a wide range of scientific, administrative or technician profile, who contribute to the university’s progress.
* Le Mans and Angers, concerning the ESPE Faculty

Why should you join the university ?

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Come and join Nantes Université’ staff members and share your skills for the benefit of a young and ambitious public institution, which places the human value at the center of its strategy.

Consult the university’s job offers

Visiting researchers

Nantes Université welcomes overseas researchers and professors from all over the world.

You are a researcher? You are arriving in Nantes? The association Chercheurs Etrangers à Nantes is helping you settling in!

Apply to the 2025 doctoral cofund Breath programme at Nantes Université

Are you a passionate researcher looking for a PhD opportunity in France?
Join the COFUND BREATH program at Nantes Université and take on new challenges in an international academic career. Benefit from state-of-the-art facilities and collaborative research projects. Apply now and embark on a rewarding academic journey with us !
 

Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Biology

The 'SysMics' research programme (Towards Systems medicine based on multi-oMics) is looking for highly motivated early-career postdoctoral scientists interested in developing new computational frameworks for interpreting multi-omics data in relation to cardiovascular, immune-related, tumoral or developmental diseases.
 
Updated on 01 October 2025.