Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Max Planck Society, 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. Fully Funded PhD Position in Phenology and Pollen Forecasting using Citizen Science Data
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group is heavily involved in the development of the Flora Incognita app for automated plant identification, which has been downloaded over 10 million times by now. As a result of this success and the dedicated community of plant enthusiasts, millions of plant observations are available, their numbers growing. These observations are useful for modelling flowering times over large spatial scales. Now, the PollenNet project seeks a highly motivated PhD student working at the interface of plant phenology, citizen science and ecological modelling.
Application Deadline: June 20, 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nanoscale Optical Bioimaging
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a highly motivated student with a strong interest in microscopy development and bioimaging. Our work depends on interdisciplinary research and collaboration with biological research groups. The research project aims at developing and constructing innovative microscopes which push beyond the current limitations of optical microscopy and to apply them in biological research.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Discovery and Development of Electrosynthetic Reactions
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Electrosynthesis at MPI CEC provides a unique environment, which employs state-of-the-art experimental approaches to provide novel and sustainable reaction methodologies. The appointed researcher will be performing electrochemical reactions and tune reaction conditions to optimize for products of high (industrial) relevance. The student will also be involved in investigating the reaction mechanism and performing studies on the scalability of electrosynthetic processes. The successful applicant will also be preparing scientific publications and presenting their results at national and international conferences.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Ethnographic study of digital healthcare in Saxony-Anhalt
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ is looking for a doctoral student who will conduct an ethnographic study on digital transformations in health and geriatric care in the Strukturwandelregion (former coal-mining region) of Saxony-Anhalt. The successful candidate will observe, follow, and engage various stakeholders (tech companies, care workers, local politicians and patients/ elderly members of the community) who are currently involved in a large-scale attempt to develop and test new digital care technologies in the region.
Application Deadline: 15 June 2025
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Neural Information Flow and Genetics of Behavior
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student (m/f/d) to work on a joint project between the Neural Information Flow (Scholz) and Genetics of Behavior (Lightfoot) groups. Using a comparative approach, we aim to understand how evolution has adapted existing behaviors and invented novel ones through alterations of the underlying neuronal circuits. Based on our recent work in identifying the neuronal circuits underlying predatory aggression, we are now expanding our focus onto functional imaging (whole-brain and single neuron) and behavior. The position would involve a combination of wet lab and computational work, and be situated in both research groups.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in In situ studies of the activation and adsorption processes of industrially relevant zeolites
Summary of PhD Program:
The Weidenthaler group is specialized in operando and in situ crystallographic experiments of catalysts tested for energy-relevant applications. Our new team member will focus on in situ diffraction and scattering studies to elucidate structure-property relationships of an industrially important class of porous materials, namely zeolites. In a joint project with the group of Prof. Dieter Bathen (Institute of Thermal Process Engineering at the University Duisburg-Essen), the candidate will study structure changes associated with complex activation processes of zeolites combined with their adsorption properties.
Application Deadline: July 1, 2025
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantitative, Long-Term Urban Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany is pleased to announce a new vacancy for two PhD Fellowship positions in any of the following areas: Quantitative and Computational Urban Studies, Comparative Urban Anthropology, Archaeology, and Sociology, and Urban History and Archaeology. Particular focus will be on the ways in which contemporary urban concerns can draw on emerging archaeological and historical urban datasets and guide research into the urban past and commonalities and differences in urban processes around the world.
Application Deadline: July 1st, 2025
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Active Matter
Summary of PhD Program:
The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) at Göttingen, Germany, is an international, interdisciplinary and collaborative environment offering an exceptional research setting. It hosts a range of theoretical and experimental fundamental scientific research and a diverse group of re-searchers. Altogether, it employs about 300 people. The LMP department engages in a wide range of theoretical research aimed at understanding the dynamics of living systems from a physical perspective. The department is headed by Ramin Golestanian and hosts a number of group leaders, postdoctoral researchers, students, and visitors.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Dioscuri Centre for Single-Molecule Optics (Prague, Czech Republic)
Summary of PhD Program:
Our team is advancing Nanofluidic Scattering Microscopy (NSM) – a novel label-free single-molecule optical microscopy method. NSM is posed to overcome current limitations today‘s microscopy, opening unprecedented avenues for exploring life at the nanoscale. As a member of a multidisciplinary scientific team, you will engage in the development of innovative NSM-based sensing technologies and their applications. Your key tasks will include the development of the optical setup, nanofluidic systems, and image processing. Additionally, you will be actively involved in experimental investigations to tackle key questions in life sciences and collaborate on interdisciplinary projects that bridge physics, biology, and chemistry.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2025
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Has the Amazon’s southeastern vegetation lost its carbon uptake capacity?
Summary of PhD Program:
The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) project is a German-Brazilian research collaboration dedicated to improving our understanding of processes in intact Amazonian forests and their interactions with the atmosphere in the changing Earth system. Recent research has suggested that the vegetation of southeastern Amazonia has lost its carbon uptake capacity, raising concern over the potential for climate change and increasing disturbance to amplify this phenomenon.
Application Deadline: June 15, 2025
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Improving understanding of seasonal and interannual carbon and water fluxes using process-based modelling
Summary of PhD Program:
The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) project is a German-Brazilian research collaboration dedicated to improving our understanding of processes in intact Amazonian forests and their interactions with the atmosphere in the changing Earth system. Building on insights gained from previous and ongoing observational studies at ATTO, this project will use vegetation modeling as a powerful tool to investigate the impacts of current climate extremes and future projections on the Amazon rainforests. The focus of this project is on advancing the representation of key processes such as leaf phenology and plant hydraulics of tropical ecosystems that remain incompletely represented in the current generation of models, but are fundamental to understanding seasonal and interannual variations, as well as the impacts of extremes.
Application Deadline: June 15, 2025
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Has the Amazon’s southeastern vegetation lost its carbon uptake capacity?
Summary of PhD Program:
This project is part of the BMBF-funded ATTO-Synthesis project, an international and highly collaborative project. We seek a highly motivated candidate to work on this project. The candidate will be jointly advised by Manon Sabot (msabot@bgc-jena.mpg.de) and Santiago Botía (sbotia@bgc-jena.mpg.de), respectively of the groups Climate and Plant Ecophysiology (CAPE) and Atmosphere-biosphere Signal Attribution in the Tropics (BSAT) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena. For questions about the project, please do not hesitate to contact the advisors.
Application Deadline: June 15, 2025
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in A Comparative Analysis of Constitutional Protections of Future Generations
Summary of PhD Program:
The selected candidate will be part of the Minerva Fast Track Research Group led by Dr. Irene Domenici. The group will explore the role of constitutional and public law in safeguarding the rights and well-being of future generations, with a particular focus on climate change, social law and public finances. The successful candidate will contribute to the group’s comparative legal analysis by investigating constitutional frameworks, judicial decisions, and legislative approaches across multiple jurisdictions. In particular, they will examine how legal systems provide for the needs of future generations and what mechanisms can be developed to strengthen their protection.
