Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, 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 Investigation of the continuous butanediol dehydrogenation under dynamic hydrogen release using pressure control
Summary of PhD Program:
Would you like to join us in actively shaping structural change in the Rhenish mining area? With us, you have the opportunity to support the newly founded Institute for a Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW) with your ideas right from the start. Together with the H2 demonstration region, the INW forms the “Helmholtz Cluster for a Sustainable and Infrastructure-Compatible Hydrogen Economy” (HC-H2). Here, scientific foundations are laid in the field of innovative hydrogen technologies in order to advance research and development approaches with high sustainability potential and attractive economic prospects.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Investigation of the Stability and Quality of Alcohol-Based LOHC Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
As part of your doctoral project, you are investigating the cycle stability of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) with alcohol functionality. Your focus here is on investigating the possible accumulation og by-products over several process cycles. You will also consider the influence of storage-related factors.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Emerging Urban Emissions and their Impact on Atmospheric Composition
Summary of PhD Program:
Urban aerosol particles pose one of the greatest global risks to human health. A substantial fraction of these particles is secondary – formed through atmospheric reactions of emitted trace gases. While motor vehicle emissions have been reduced through regulation, attention is shifting to understudied sources such as volatile chemical products (VCPs) and cooking emissions, which are now emerging as key precursors to ozone and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in urban areas.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Filming nanocatalysts for renewable energies
Summary of PhD Program:
At the Electrocatalysis department of Prof. Karl Mayrhofer, we offer a PhD position within the team Nanoanalysis of Electrochemical Processes. Lead by Dr. Andreas Hutzler, the team is investigating degradation mechanisms within the framework of green energy conversion and climate change. The open position aims to understand catalyst stability at the nanoscale during electrochemical processes via operando liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy (LP-TEM).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Analysis and modeling of biomolecule functioning in soil systems towards digital twinning of sustainable carbon farming
Summary of PhD Program:
The work is part of the joint project “Towards sustainable production by regenerative agriculture and agroecology in a changing climate” (ReGenFarm). Together with Bayer Crop Science, IBG-3 and IBG-4 work in action field 4 to establish a molecular basis of carbon storage in soil. The research relates structural-physical properties with chemical and biochemical analyses at the molecular level to identify biomolecules (organic “glue” compounds) that promote soil structure and carbon storage.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Design and development of an in-house X-ray beamline for long term operando investigation of chemical hydrogen storage reactors
Summary of PhD Program:
At the institute division “Catalytic Interfaces for Chemical Hydrogen Storage” (INW-1, Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Steinrück), we investigate mechanisms and processes in (electro)chemical energy storage systems. For the purposes, we develop and use advanced (X-ray-based) methods as well as modern data reduction und data evaluation methods, including machine learning and big data analytics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in AI-guided design of scaffold-free DNA nanostructures
Summary of PhD Program:
The field of structural DNA nanotechnology holds a great promise for the realization of all-DNA building blocks with arbitrary complexity and shape at the sub-nanometer scale. Such structures can be used to construct artificial cell mimics and new materials. A scaffold-free DNA tile assembly is a programmable method for the formation of two- and three-dimensional DNA structures which self-assemble from a number of interacting single-stranded DNA molecules.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Quantum-Classical Co-Simulation Framework Development for Neurobiological Systems
Summary of PhD Program:
The overarching goal is to implement a code for multiscale quantum mechanics / molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics simulations using a Quantum Centric Supercomputing (QSC) approach [1,2] for the QM problem. This will be integrated within the in-house MiMiC framework [3] and applied to study proton transport in H+-coupled transporters.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computationally-enabled inverse design of perovskite-based materials for photovoltaic devices
Summary of PhD Program:
As a PhD candidate you will develop and deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) driven approach to streamline high-throughput experimentation (IMD-3: Institute of Energy Materials and Devices – Photovoltaics) and high-performance computation (IET-3: Institute of Energy Technologies – Theory and Computation) towards the overarching aim of implementing an inverse design approach for novel lead-free perovskites for emerging photovoltaic applications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Organic Electrosynthesis: monitoring of reaction transients with real-time techniques
Summary of PhD Program:
The Electrocatalysis research department (https://www.hi-ern.de/hi-ern/Electrocatalysis) is looking for three PhD students, which research area is to investigate fundamental relationships between electrolyte-electrode interface structure and selectivity or efficiency of chemical outcome during the preparation of complex and value-added compounds directly from the readily available feedstock.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Large Language Models and Semantic AI for Data-Driven Materials Science and Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Our work focuses on using ontologies and knowledge graphs to structure materials data and embed physical meaning into datasets, while leveraging techniques such as Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve semantic enrichment. We also contribute to the development of domain ontologies, metadata standards, and software tools that enable FAIR data practices across scientific workflows. Our work aligns with Helmholtz-wide and national data initiatives including NFDI-MatWerk, and contributes to shaping a sustainable, AI-ready research data infrastructure.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Deep Learning for Dislocation Analysis in Electron Microscopy
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD project is methodologically independent, with the opportunity to contribute to collaborative efforts at the interface of data science, imaging, and materials research. You will strengthen the data science and machine learning activities of the IAS-9 with exciting new topics.