Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Helmholtz Association, Germany invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational biomedical sensing
Summary of PhD Program:
We are Helmholtz Munich. In a rapidly changing world, we discover breakthrough solutions for better health. Our research is focused within the areas of metabolic health/diabetes, environmental health, molecular targets and therapies, cell programming and repair, bioengineering, and computational health. We particularly excel in the fields of basic research, bioengineering, artificial intelligence, and technological development.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing a Data Model for Diverse Field Phenotyping Data
Summary of PhD Program:
Would you like to contribute to solutions to climate change and resource scarcity? Work with us at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Plant Sciences (IBG-2). We develop novel bioeconomy concepts for the intensification and sustainability of plant production as well as the use of the produced biomass in integrated biorefinery processes. The IBG-2 has a globally leading position in plant phenotyping, focusing on dynamic plant-environment interaction combined with technology development, engineering, digitization and bioinformatics. One key aspect of the research at the IBG-2 targets alternative biomass, cell wall and secondary metabolite biochemistry and its interaction with biomass conversion techniques in integrated biorefinery processes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-scale tomographic analysis of porous catalysts for hydrogen applications
Summary of PhD Program:
Your ideas and work support the department Electrocatalytic Interface Engineering, headed by Prof. Simon Thiele, in the team Composite Membrane Analysis and Design, headed by Dr. Thomas Böhm. The department focuses on the production, analysis and simulation of functionally optimal structures in electrochemical systems from the nanometer scale to the micrometer scale, with a focus on tomographic analyses of porous materials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hydrological modelling in the context of forest ecosystems and climate change
Summary of PhD Program:
As PhD-candidate in this position you will be engaged in the large and collaborative project MW³ (Standardized monitoring of growth responses of important forest tree species to climatic extreme events) that is funded by WaldKlimaFonds and aims at developing a forest monitoring system to detect growth responses of important forest ecosystems in Central Europe to climatic extreme events. Within this project, the PhD project deals with the characterization of the impact of climatic extreme events on the water balance of forest ecosystems.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Control Theory for scalable semiconductor Quantum Computing architectures
Summary of PhD Program:
The Peter Grünberg Institute for Quantum Control (PGI-8) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich specializes in novel optimization strategies for emerging quantum technologies. These emerging technologies aim to provide transformative changes to our society, including how we think about information, and unlocking vast calculations for the natural sciences, logistical problem solving, and high-performance computation. Our group has pioneered the application of quantum optimal control methods to quantum computation and many-body quantum systems. This includes the development of physical models and model reduction techniques as well as algorithmic advances of in-situ optimization and machine learning to tackle the complex processes inherent to scalable quantum devices. Are you looking for a new challenge? Our team is looking forward to receiving your application!
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in High Dimensional Multi Omics Data Integration
Summary of PhD Program:
Your project has the aim to develop novel (interactive) workflow tools for high dimensional data integration and data mining. The data used should comprise multiple omics disciplines e.g. transcripts, metabolites and epigenetic signals. Currently many analyses comprise ad-hoc methods or “standard” procedures that are disjunct.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Digital twins in safeguarding nuclear waste management
Summary of PhD Program:
Digital twins are already used in many industrial and planning applications. In nuclear engineering for example, they are used and further developed to improve the safety, operation and design of nuclear facilities. Digital twins also have a high potential for international nuclear material safeguards,e.g. for inspection planning, for optimizing the use of safeguards technologies, and for training purposes. The aim of this work is to explore the possibilities and limits of digital twins in safeguarding nuclear facilities, using the example of an interim storage facility and a geological repository for highly radioactive waste.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Stochastic Predictive Optimization for the Electrical Grid
Summary of PhD Program:
In response to the urgent demands posed by climate change in an increasingly global economy and in addition to the goal of reducing dependence on imported energy sources and raw materials, the European energy system is considering a shift from an energy system based on fossil fuels that relies on large power plants, to a dynamic, supply- and demand-driven approach, often organized in local energy communities where renewable energy is the main source.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Synthesis Automation
Summary of PhD Program:
You will be part of the Novel Catalyst Design department, headed by Prof. Dr. Marc Ledendecker. The department focuses on the fabrication of metal-based, inorganic catalysts for the global energy transition. We use many different nanoparticles to fabricate highly active supported catalysts. This PhD thesis specifically focuses on automating the synthesis route of e.g. platinum based and iridium oxide based catalysts for acidic water splitting reaction as used in polymer electrolyte membrane units. At the same time, you will have the opportunity to do your PhD at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) (incl. graduate school) and also to use the infrastructure of TUM.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanostructured Catalyst Preparation
Summary of PhD Program:
Would you like to contribute to the energy transition in Germany through your work? Then the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN) is the right place for you! The HI ERN forms the core of the close partnership between Forschungszentrum Jülich, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg at the Erlangen site. The collaboration relates to the areas of innovative materials and processes for photovoltaic energy systems and hydrogen as a storage and carrier medium for CO2-neutral energy. Support us researching and developing solutions for the climate-neutral, sustainable, and cost-effective utilization of renewable energies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Learning Embeddings for Earth Observation Applications with Supercomputing
Summary of PhD Program:
The quality and quantity of Earth Observation (EO) data is increasing at a high rate. However its volume makes handing the data challenging, especially as the bandwidths between data centers do not grow accordingly. In your PhD, you will develop AI methods to enhance the accessibility and analysis of a vast amount of high-resolution, multi-source EO data. You will research ML methods of encode and compress high-volume EO data into practical, much smaller representations and scale them to large datasets on our supercomputers. These techniques are designed to efficiently exchange massive geospatial data for few-shots learning, and facilitating real-time searchers on petabyte-scale data. This research will take place within the scope of the recently funded EU project, Embed2Scale.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Performance Assessment of a Novel Satellite Instrument to Measure Atmospheric Dynamics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Institute of Energy and Climate Research – Stratosphere (IEK-7) and related universities are building a series of Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers (SHS) for remote sensing of the Earth atmosphere. The activities are part of the International Satellite Program in Research and Education (INSPIRE) and a European Union funded activity to study innovative technologies in space. Scheduled launch dates for these novel instruments are from 2023 to 2026. The scientific objectives of the measurements are addressing open science questions related to the dynamics of the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere. This region couples Earth`s lower atmosphere and nearer space and is facilitating both the influence of the atmosphere onto the ionosphere and hence our space assets as well as upper-atmosphere influences onto the lower atmosphere.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Characterization methods of PEM water electrolysis components
Summary of PhD Program:
The electrocatalytic interface engineering department led by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele focuses on synthesis, manufacturing, analysis and simulation of functional materials to find an optimum structure on small scales from the micrometer to the nanometer scale. The investigated materials and systems play an essential role in sustainable technologies like water- and CO2-electrolyzers, as well as in fuel cells.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Intelligence for Air Quality Forecasting
Summary of PhD Program:
In this position, you will be an active part of our ESDE research group and take over responsibility for developing novel solutions to air quality forecasting with machine learning models. As a starting point of your thesis, you will extend and enhance our air quality forecasting tool MLAir so that it can be applied to a variety of air pollutants and in regions outside of central Europe. You shall also improve computational aspects of the model deployment and evaluation. During your PhD you will work togehter with a large and growing network of scientific AI experts from around the world.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Hybrid Soil Microbiome Modeling
Summary of PhD Program:
You will combine process-based and machine-learning models to establish a hybrid modeling approach for the soil microbiome within a young, dynamic and interdisciplinary team in an international working environment. Your work will be connected with the “Digital Agricultural Avatar” developed in the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence PhenoRob (www.phenorob.de).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Integrating Large-Scale Energy System Models into High Performance Computers
Summary of PhD Program:
The transformation of the energy sector is a major challenge of the 21st century. The techno-economic systems analysis (IEK-3) uses large models to investigate the question, of which technologies energy systems need to be composed in order to become both, cost-efficient and environmnetally friendly. Become part of our international research group and gain insights into the future of the energy sector. Not only you can use your expertise to create prognoses on the future capacity expansion, but also get an overview of different technologies and their synergies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cryogenic CMOS for Quantum Computing
Summary of PhD Program:
Would you like to contribute to the future fast and energy efficient computing systems and develop skills to enhance your competitiveness in the field of nano-technology? The Institute of Semiconductor Nanoelectronics (PGI 9) at Forschungszentrum Jülich is the right place for you! We focus on application oriented basic research in novel materials and innovative device concepts for both quantum and neuromorphic computing. PGI 9 has broad experience and competence in growth of semiconductor nanowires and quantum dots, epitaxy and analysis of group IV, III/V,III-nitrides and topological insulator nanostructures and their implementation in electronic and optical devices, fabrication of hybrid-nanostructures containing semiconductor / dielectric (ferroelectric) / superconductor / metal materials.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in tudy the Protein / Protein Interface Energetics by Means of Free Energy Calculations Performed Using ML/MM Potentials
Summary of PhD Program:
The department “Computational Molecular Medicine” follows an interdisciplinary and integrative approach, combining INM-9`s theoretical expertise in protein modelling, simulation, free-energy calculations and in silico molecular investigations with practical approaches from the fields of experimental biochemistry and organic synthesis. These physics-based approaches are combined with machine learning methods in order to derive relationships and correlations between molecules on the basis of multi-omic data. Finally, the Computational Molecular Medicine department also contributes to INM-9`s efforts to move to the systemic level. The goal is to relate events at the molecular level to real biological reactions.
