Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Max Planck Gesellschaft, Munich, 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. 11 Fully Funded PhD Position in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for applicants (m/f/d) with strong interest or background in any of the aspects of the mw-atlas construction and exploitation: Galactic dust, gas, magnetic fields, stars, dark matter, cosmic rays, high-performance computing, AI, and information field theory. Candidates with master degrees in Astronomy, Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Bayesian Statistics, or related fields are invited to apply.
Application Deadline: January 15th, 2025
2. 07 Fully Funded PhD Position in computational, mathematical & experimental plant sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The mission of our IMPRS is to study fundamental biological processes in plants and to create knowledge and material that can empower innovative plant breeding. More than 30 research groups study regulatory networks controlling fundamental traits such as reproductive development, organ geometry and growth, innate immunity and microbiome effects on plant performance. They apply and develop a broad range of interdisciplinary technologies ranging from genetics and genomics to structural biochemistry, advanced imaging and computational and mathematical modelling in various plant species.
Application Deadline: January 5TH 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microtubule mechanical failure and interaction with tau proteins
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics (Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller) invites applications for a PhD Student (f/m/d) for the project Microtubule mechanical failure and interaction with tau proteins. The project aims at elucidating the mechanical properties and failure of microtubule filaments as well as their interactions with intrinsically disordered proteins such as tau proteins, which are involved in neurodegenerative diseases. To this end, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics methods will be used.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biochemistry / Biophysics: Enabling Unique Dynamic Molecular Imaging Experiments
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell invites applications for a PhD position in biochemistry or biophysics to start as soon as possible. Opportunities are available in Heidelberg and Göttingen for highly motivated biochemists, chemists or biotechnologists who are interested in working in a world-leading, multidisciplinary research group. The successful candidate will be able to apply for admission to the Max Planck School of Photonics or Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS).
Application Deadline: 16th Dec 2024
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics: Pushing the Boundaries of Optical Molecular Imaging
Summary of PhD Program:
The MINFLUX (Balzarotti et al., Science 2017) and MINSTED (Weber et al., Nature Photonics 2021) concepts have unlocked the door to minimally invasive, low-light-level analysis of the structure and dynamics of macromolecules at the nanometer scale (Wirth et al., Science 2023; Schleske et al., PNAS 2024). This includes experiments at 1-nm resolution and with Ångström measurement precision (Sahl et al. Science 2024). The successful candidate will work on next-generation MINFLUX optical instrumentation.
Application Deadline: 16th Dec 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Cultural Embeddedness of Private Law
Summary of PhD Program:
The positions are assigned to the project “Cultural Embeddedness of the Law of Obligations” within our Max Planck Research Group “Transformations in Private Law: Culture, Climate, and Technology”. In this project, the group seeks to understand the cultural embeddedness of legal processes in the law of obligations (primarily contracts and torts) and how legal professionals deal with their own and others’ cultural conceptions of normality. Its ultimate goal is to contribute to the improvement of legal doctrine and practice regarding the inclusive application of private law in culturally diverse societies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
Conventional accounts of European integration have often insisted on the novelty of the supranational law developed in that context, asserting its ‘sui generis’ character and highlighting its differences with earlier forms of international and regional integration. However, forms of supranational law and institutions already existed during the interwar period. This was the case within the League of Nations and its broader context, which included international(ized) institutions both in Europe and in (semi-)colonial settings. The research group explores the continuities and discontinuities between the law of these interwar institutions and the law developed within the context of European integration.
Application Deadline: 6th January, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Receptor Structures at the Plant-Microbe Interface
Summary of PhD Program:
A doctoral student position is available in the Foerderer laboratory in the research project ‘Molecular basis of viral recognition and associated plant signalling’, at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. The project includes state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of proteins involved in resistance of crop plants towards viruses. The protein structure knowledge will be used for crop improvement to generate new cultivars that are equipped for the future challenges in agriculture (climate change). Our recently founded junior group is located at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and part of the Department ‘Root biology and mycorrhiza’ (Prof. Caroline Gutjahr).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data-driven and genome-edited breeding of locally adapted wheat varieties to increase agricultural biodiversity, sustainable climate resilience and resource efficiency
Summary of PhD Program:
The changing climate also poses new challenges for wheat breeding and thus for securing our food supply. The high-yielding elite varieties must therefore be adapted to new weather conditions and pathogens as quickly as possible. Big data-based approaches can help to screen the available genetic diversity and identify useful alleles to safeguard our bread wheat against future hazards. However, these advantageous alleles, which often originate from old varieties with low yields, must then be introduced into the elite cultivars. This takes a very long time with classic crossing. The new genome editing techniques, on the other hand, open up the possibility of achieving this much more quickly.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
Are you interested in working in the rapidly evolving research field of quantum materials? The Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials (MPGC-QM) currently has an open call for multiple fully funded PhD student positions.
Application Deadline: December 11th 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Battery Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
The project focuses on the investigation of novel metal fiber-based fleeces to be used as current collectors for ultra-thick lithium ion battery electrodes, granting access to battery cells with vastly improved energy density. Potential working areas of the candidates can include simulations of the system, further improving the fleece-based current collectors, developing new types of active materials, and assembling and testing of battery cells, or a combination thereof.
Application Deadline: 31.01.2025
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12. 02 Fully Funded PhD Position in Biophysical mechanisms of MRI contrast / Metabolism and neurovascular coupling in activation and deactivation
Summary of PhD Program:
The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research and Development Group lead by Professor Harald Möller offers two PhD positions (m/f/d) for 3 years. The scientific focus of one project is on ”Biophysical mechanisms of MRI contrast”. Many physical properties that can be used for MR-based tissue characterization show an apparent dependence on the orientation of the object in the main magnetic field. An analysis of the underlying physics allows to model these effects for obtaining more specific information on tissue microstructure and composition or achieves a better understanding of image contrast.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robotic Composites
Summary of PhD Program:
Our new lab works at the intersection of mechanics, robotics, materials, and design, benefiting from and contributing to sub-fields such as soft and underactuated robots, architected materials, modular robotics, granular matter, swarm robotics, and circular engineering. We focus on the design, fabrication, modeling, and testing of active composite metamaterials which can function not only as structural components but also as actuators and sensors. We develop experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches to address key challenges in minimally invasive medical procedures, sustainable manufacturing, and human-material interaction.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chiral Quantum Materials
Summary of PhD Program:
The Schröter Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale), Germany, is looking for a motivated PhD student, ideally with experience in angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) and/or thin-film growth with molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and/or scanning-tunneling spectroscopy (STM). However, other research backgrounds will also be considered. The project will focus on the exploration of chiral quantum materials as part of the ERC Starting Grant project ChiralTopMat [1-6]. Moreover, chiral quantum materials are also going to be the focus of the “Center for Chiral Electronics” Excellence Initiative collaboration with the University Halle-Wittenberg [7].
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum Materials research (IMPRS-CPQM)
Summary of PhD Program:
The International Max Planck Research School for Chemistry and Physics of Quantum Materials is a joint PhD program between the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Germany, Technische Universität Dresden and the University of St Andrews, Scotland. By working together, we create a highly attractive overall package of PhD level research on solid-state chemistry and condensed matter physics, building on world‐class research activities in quantum materials at the three institutions.
Application Deadline: November 30, 2024
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in The Leipzig School of Human Origins
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite online applications for the International Max Planck Research School “The Leipzig School of Human Origins” (IMPRS LSHO), an international Ph.D. program of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of Leipzig. We provide interdisciplinary training and research opportunities for excellent young scientists who wish to work towards a Ph.D. in anthropology, biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, evolutionary genetics, human behavioral ecology, psychology, and related fields. Candidates may apply with selected research groups from the following disciplines:
- Discipline 1: Molecular Anthropology
- Discipline 2: Human History, Evolution and Ecology
- Discipline 3: Language, Culture and Cognition
