Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Max Planck Society, 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 Life Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
We aim to endow the next generation of scientists with the knowledge and skills to study complex biological processes, which cannot be adequately understood within the limits of single disciplines, in the context of entire organisms. IMPRS PhD students tackle research projects bridging the gap from molecules to living organisms. Transcending the boundaries of traditional life science disciplines, methodologies and scientific approaches from different fields are combined to address topics inaccessible by isolated research areas.
Application Deadline: 16 August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Multi-omics delineation of planarian regeneration specificity
Summary of PhD Program:
We study the fascinating ability of planarian flatworms to regenerate whole animals from tiny pieces of tissue. We have pioneered high quality planarian genome sequencing / assembly and established functional genomics techniques that provide new avenues for investigating the gene regulatory basis of regeneration. We are an interdisciplinary department encompassing bioinformatics, cell biology, taxonomy and high throughput screening, and we believe in cross-project and cross-disciplinary collaboration. We are a truly international department. Our working language is English.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Spectromicroscopy studies of complex processes in thermal catalysis
Summary of PhD Program:
The group operates an ultra-high vacuum (UHV) based aberrations corrected and energy filtered Low Energy and Photoemission Electron Microscopy (LEEM/PEEM) at the UE49PGM-SMART high flux soft x-ray beamline at BESSY-II. This spectromicroscope is used to characterize catalytically active surfaces such as single crystal surfaces, oxide films and supported nanoparticles (NP) and to follow in real time and in situ processes such as epitaxial film growth, thermal reactions in a pressure range up to 10-5 mbar and phase transitions. Various special equipment are connected to the microscope allowing for quasi in situ processes like UHV based plasma treatment, chemical reactions in near ambient pressure (NAP) and electrochemistry.
Application Deadline: July 31, 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Condensed Matter Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The IMPRS-CMS, established at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in corporation with the University of Stuttgart, offers you a unique opportunity to join one of our internationally renowned Research Groups for a doctoral study. We combine an exceptionally broad and interdisciplinary spectrum of expertise in fundamental research on condensed matter, ranging from topics such as Quantum Materials / Electronic Structure & Quantum Many-Body Theory / Nanoscience / Solid State Spectroscopy / Solid State Ionics & Batteries / Bioinspired Materials / Quantum Electronics / Organic Electronics / Ultra-Cold Atomic Gases /…
Application Deadline: September 30, 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Migration, Identity and Blackness in Europe
Summary of PhD Program:
The successful doctoral fellow will be joining the research group to carry out a computational social science research project at the intersections of African Studies and digital humanities to understand how public discourses about African migrants in Germany have changed over time. The doctoral research fellow will be responsible for the acquisition of data, data cleaning, data management, data analysis and data visualisation, while closely working with an interdisciplinary research team and collaborators.
Application Deadline: 6th August 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Synthetic Biology / Biophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Zieske group is an independent research group at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light. We are an interdisciplinary research team with projects in the area of membrane biophysics, microfluidics and synthetic biology. We are interested in the emergence of patterns and structures of living soft matter. Currently, we are looking for a highly motivated PhD student with good communication skills and a scientific aptitude. The successful candidate will conduct an interdisciplinary research program and address the emergence of protein patterns and structures at lipid membranes.
Application Deadline: July 20, 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in IMPRS for Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Summary of PhD Program:
The overall research and teaching focuses on:
- Improved understanding of biogeochemical processes with an emphasis on terrestrial ecosystems
- Development of observational techniques to monitor and assess biogeochemical feedbacks in the Earth system
- Theory and model development for improving the representation of biogeochemical processes in comprehensive Earth system models
Application Deadline: August 21st, 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neural Information Flow
Summary of PhD Program:
The Research Group „Neural Information Flow“ is doing research on the general principles of signal compression, attention and context-dependency in neural systems. To do this we concentrate on the foraging behavior of the roundworm C. elegans. To support our research we are looking for a PhD Student (m/f/d) – Neural Information Flow to join us as soon as possible.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Single molecule X-ray scattering experiments with free electron lasers offer a new route to the structure determination of biomolecules. In addition, they hold the potential to not only determine the molecular structure, but also its dynamics. However, computing the structure from such data poses a highly complex mathematical problem, and new theoretical methods and algorithms are required. The main goal of this particular research project is to develop Bayesian methods to determine molecular structures and dynamics. It also offers the opportunity to work with data from the European XFEL facility at DESY and, depending on the interests of the applicant, many possible connections to other research areas like, for example, molecular dynamics or machine learning.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in History of European Union Employment Law
Summary of PhD Program:
We are now looking to recruit for 1 October 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter a Doctoral Student (m/f/d) for the Fellowship project ‘The History of European Union Employment Law’, under the supervision of Professors Thorsten Keiser and Stefan Vogenauer, dealing with the following topic: Equal pay in the Benelux countries in light of European law (1952-1973).
Application Deadline: 15 August 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The Center for Epigenetic Mechanisms of Brain Longevity, a collaboration between the research groups of Anne Schaefer and Zak Frentz at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, and Alexander Tarakhovsky, Professor at the Rockefeller University in New York and Max Planck Society Fellow, is seeking scientists (m/f/d) at different career stages PhD student, Postdoc, Research Associate (m/f/d) (Job code 10-2023) to join its multidisciplinary research team. The Center aims to promote the systems approach toward understanding cell and tissue longevity, focusing on general principles of energy allocation and associated structural and functional gene changes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Historical and philosophical aspects of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applicants who wish to conduct research on a topic incorporating physics, history and philosophy of physics research; in particular, on the history and conceptual analysis of solving the two-body problem in General Relativity, especially as it unfolded from 1975 onwards. Important questions should concern the development of analytical and numerical methods in General Relativity, as well as their synergy and impact on the discovery of gravitational waves from merging black holes in 2015.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental Quantum Matter Pillars
Summary of PhD Program:
For application in screens and photovoltaics, we require materials that are both conductive as well as transparent. Based on our intuition we think that metals are shiny objects that reflect the optical spectrum of light. When applying finite size confinement to layered quantum materials we can access slabs of materials that combine high electrical conductivity and optical transmission. The high degree of localization of electrons into the conductive planes prevents excitation of the electrons in the perpendicular direction and hence allows for good optical transparency.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Population Health
Summary of PhD Program:
Successful disease prevention has been a cornerstone of health and mortality improvements in recent decades. However, effective disease prevention has far-reaching demographic consequences. Improved survival with diseases results in an increasing number of life years with diseases, and as a consequence, a population that will consist of higher shares of individuals with chronic conditions, or a history of diseases. At the same time, longer lifespans may cause individual disease histories to become more complex, and increase the number of multimorbid individuals. Counteracting dynamics such as a delayed disease onset or a complete prevention of a disease could slow or even reverse these processes.
Application Deadline: September 8th, 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Theoretical Solid States Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
The Minerva Fast Track Group “Spin-Orbital Electronics”, established in October 2021 at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale), Germany, uses methods of theoretical physics to discuss transport phenomena in solids, which originate from spin-orbit coupling. Examples for such effects are the spin Hall effect, which is the generation of a transversal spin current in nonmagnetic materials, or the Edelstein effect, which corresponds to a current-induced homogeneous spin polarization in systems with broken inversion symmetry. Our theoretical calculations base on the Boltzmann transport theory, Kubo linear response theory, and nonlinear transport theories based on the polarization operator.
Application Deadline: July 15th, 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Extraction Algorithm
Summary of PhD Program:
We, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hanover, Germany, are looking for a Ph.D. student (m/f/d) in physics or a closely related field to continue our work on compact optical readout systems for laser interferometric experiments in gravitational physics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sustainable Metallurgy for students from developing countries
Summary of PhD Program:
Metallurgy has provided humankind since more than five millennia with materials, tools and the associated progress. It is not only a huge engineering success story, but has also become the biggest single industrial environmental burden of our generation. Disruptive innovations are required for alternative reduction processes that convert mineral ores into metals without today’s carbon based methods that release huge amounts of CO2. SusMet focuses on the exploration of carbon-free sustainable metallurgy, employing hydrogen as reducing agent, direct electroreduction (electrolysis) and plasma synthesis.
