Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Ludwig Maximilian University of 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
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This project focuses on the functions of MIF proteins on dendritic cells and T cells. MIF is considered to be an innate cytokine/chemokine which exerts most of its roles by controlling cells of the innate arm of the immune system. However, recent evidence also suggests a critical role for MIF and its homolog MIF-2 in the control of T-cell activity. In the project, these novel unexpected effects will be studied via well-established basic immunological techniques as well as innovative and technologically advanced functional leucocyte assays. Systematic comparison of MIF, MIF-2, and their receptors will lead to an in-depth mechanistic exploration of the currently unknown MIF-family induced interplay of dendritic cells and T cells at the crossroad of the innate and adaptive immune responses.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
2. Fully Funded PhD Position
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According to the LUNG-SAFE study, 10% of all patients admitted to an ICU and 23% of those requiring mechanical ventilation fulfill the criteria of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). ARDS qualifies as a life-threatening disease with significant mortality rates ranging from 15-52% from mild to severe forms despite modern treatment strategies. The high chances of irreversible organ dysfunction due to fibroproliferative remodeling result in clinically non-acceptable morbidity rates. We face a high ARDS prevalence that was dramatically fueled by the recent COVID-19 pandemic and an unmet medical need for the development of future drug candidates to reduce the burden of ARDS to patients and society.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
High systolic blood pressure, pulsatile motion and the so called “windsock effect” of the aorta are factors that must be considered when it comes to deployment of stent grafts, especially in the ascending aorta. These forcescan cause distal migration of the stent-graft and therefore increase the risk of unintended coverage of aortic branches and unsuccessful treatment of theunderlying pathology. Currently available options for cardiac output reduction such as “Partial right inflow occlusion” or “Rapid right ventricular pacing” require additional vascular access and material. Therefore, they may hold certain risks. A modified Valsalva manoeuvre called “MuVIT-Munich Valsalva Implantation Technique” may be a suitable alternative.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position
Summary of PhD Program:
The optimal oversizing percentage of endografts for treatment of aortic pathologies is unknown, with recommendations ranging from 0-30% depending on the type of pathology, stentgraft design, and physician preference. This is becoming increasingly interesting in proximal landing zones in the ascending aorta, after previous open repair.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Currently the main limitation of aortic arch devices such as inner branch devices is the wide proximal landing zone, which precludes treatment in more than 50% of cases (Benfor et al 2022 EJCTS). Although placing an extra device in the ascending aorta may increase feasibility in some patients, diffuse enlargement or involvement of the proximal ascending aorta precludes treatment if one does not deal with the ostium of the coronary arteries and the aortic valve. This problem has also been identified by Cardiologists as one of the main limiting factors for TAVI procedures.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Penetrating Aortic Ulcers (PAU) are typical focal lesions of the atherosclerotic aorta characterized by the erosion of the intima and elastic lamina with an outpouching shape. 1,2 They are classified together with aortic dissections and intramural hematoma as acute aortic dissections, but differ from other conditions for the typical isolated pattern, specific complications and indication for treatment.3,4 PAU are very often reported in the aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta, whereas the localization in the abdominal aorta is up to 30% and little is known on their natural history, treatment options and outcomes.4,5
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Measurements of aneurysm size and morphological characteristics after endovascular aortic repair may be complex and time-consuming. Physicians often find themselves compromising quality of imaging evaluation to tackle the high number of visiting patients. Newer software using artificial intelligence, could be used to shorten the time a physician spends evaluating Follow-up CT scans and potentially even eliminate hand-made measurements. Such a process requires validation and deep learning for the respective software to become more efficient.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position
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In this project we will study the cell biological and molecular mechanisms controlling the morphology and tightness of neoplastic vessels of the brain. We will focus on signaling cues for GAM-induced BTB formation. To this end we will inspect GBM biopsies, perform in vitro assays as well as genetic manipulations of mouse models and tumour cells. Read-outs will comprise RNAseq (bulk and single cell), RT-qPCR, flow cytometry, Western blotting, immunohistochemistry and histological inspection. The project aims at improving the efficiency of conventional chemotherapy and new targeted treatments for GBM.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Our group’s main objective is to accelerate biomedical research through innovative integration of cutting-edge technologies. We uniquely combine whole-body clearing and three-dimensional imaging techniques for whole mice and large human tissues with artificial intelligence (AI) and spatial omics methodologies. Our research interests encompass mapping systemic health and disease processes throughout the body, conducting molecular analyses of spatially defined physiological and pathophysiological structures, developing novel drug delivery approaches, and creating new AI and experimental technologies to enhance our comprehension of mammalian physiology.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position
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In recent years, Intrinsic Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fcMRI) has become a valuable tool for understanding how different parts of the human brain communicate with each other. This technology helps us create maps of the brain’s functional connectivity architecture. These maps provide insights into how the human brain is organised and offer potential insights into changes in network structure in psychiatric disorders, brain tumours, or chronic pain. Using resting-state functional MRI scans, recent research has revealed several intrinsic networks and specific connections that can help us understand abnormal processes in the brain.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 9 (HSAN9) is a rare fatal neurological disease caused by mis- and nonsense mutations in the gene encoding for Tectonin β-propeller repeat containing protein 2 (TECPR2). While we previously found that TECPR2 is required for lysosomal consumption of autophagosomes (Fraiberg et al. 2021) and ER-to-Golgi transport (Stadel et al. 2015), it remains elusive how exactly TECPR2 is involved in autophagy and secretion and what downstream sequels arise from defective TECPR2 due to its involvement in these processes. Recently, we addressed these questions by determining which proteins depend on TECPR2 for their trafficking out of the ER and sorting within the cell.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position
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De novo mutations in the gene encoding for the beta-propeller protein WIPI4 are causative for beta-propeller associated neurodegeneration (BPAN), an X-linked dominant human disorder characterized by iron accumulations in the brain. BPAN patients show early onset developmental delays with severe intellectual disability and rapid, progressive motor and cognitive regression in early adulthood. BPAN-linked mutations are thought to disrupt the beta-propeller structure resulting in a functional loss of WIPI4. WIPI4 is a phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate binding protein whose function is best understood in the context of autophagy. Here, WIPI4 helps to tether PI3P-rich phagophores to adjacent ER or ER-derived membranes in complex with the lipid transfer protein ATG2A, ultimately leading to the expansion of phagophores into cup-shaped membranes that give rise to autophagosomes upon closure.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Our research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of optical tools designed to explore and manipulate biological systems using light. These tools include photo-switchable molecules and fluorescent / plasmonic particles that are suitable for biophysical applications. Amongst our activities, we investigate how particles can be employed for enhanced biosensing, single molecule Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy, optical tweezer manipulation, and localized heat generation. Furthermore, we utilize light-sensitive molecules to achieve optical control over essential membrane functions, such as fluidity and permeability in lipid bilayer membranes.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
14. Fully Funded PhD Position
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These projects aim to explore new materials for photocatalysis – and possibly extend them to electrocatalysis. The portfolio of materials expand from sustainable materials – including CN-based materials, earth-abundant nanostructures, 2D materials and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDs) – all the way to single atoms and vacancies/defects. By employing novel characterization techniques, we aim to discover and control new energy conversion pathways in these materials aiming to maximize the light-matter interaction as well as understand and modulate the charge-transfer energy barriers. The candidates will work in a highly interdisciplinary group and their projects will cover both the synthesis/fabrication of the nanomaterials as well as the characterization and testing in different working conditions and for different applications, mostly centered in producing fuels and energy storage.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Fully Funded PhD Position
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At the Chair for Fish Diseases and Fisheries Biology, we encourage independent thinking and support projects related to aquatic animal (vertebrate and invertebrate) medicine, health and disease, including infectious and non-infectious diseases and pathologies. We encourage applicants to offer their research ideas and projects, and strongly suggest to contact Prof. Palić in advance of the application to LMU-CSC to discuss the expectations and feasibility of the student-proposed projects.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
16. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Although the use of polymeric platforms in integrated (on-chip) photonic devices is extremely interesting, it is still seldom reported. In fact, there are only a few studies in this direction on structures fabricated by two-photon polymerization, which contrasts to the number of similar studies in semiconductor structures. In this project one aims at fabricating polymeric devices via two-photon polymerization for integrated optics, mainly using the Nanoscribe facility full accessible to the host group. Not only linear optical processes will be exploited, but also nonlinear ones, nevertheless using moderate input/excitation power levels. This is possible due to the high confinement degree of the electromagnetic field and long interaction lengths in the fabricated micro- and nanostructures, as the cases of waveguides and microresonators.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
17. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Thermal effects manifest themselves in condensed matter systems in a variety of ways, from the simple deposition of energy in a material due to light absorption, leading to local heating and temperature increase, to the opposite effect, where phonon-assisted light absorption leads to material’s cooling. The first kind of process can be exploited for detecting nanoparticles with sub 10 nm sizes in diffraction limited optical systems, while the second is used for laser cooling of solids. There are in between a myriad of thermal processes and different ways to exploit and apply them. Rare-earth ions in solid state matrices are often used for obtaining frequency down- and upconversion of incident radiation allowing, among other things, to operate sensors for many physical quantities.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
18. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Miniaturization and speed of electronic and optical components represent an essential step towards the achievement of high performance, low environmental impact, and lightweight devices. Recently, new approaches to this subject aiming at more compact and fast devices, exploiting the lattice strain created in a solid described by its fundamental excitations are gaining attention in the fast-growing field of phononics. Phonons are particularly interesting due to the possibility of interacting with virtually any excitations observable in the solid-state phase. Acoustic phonons present inspiring analogies with photons. For example, both sound in a solid and light in a transparent medium present linear dispersion relation and are weakly attenuated.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
19. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Nanophotonics has led to a huge progress in understanding of light-matter interaction many approaches have been paving the way to full control of light at the nanoscale. By nanostructuring diverse materials (metal/plasmonic, dielectric, critical media etc…), one aims at nanoscale controlling of amplitude, phase and polarization of the electromagnetic field, possibly leading to diverse application possibilities, like in biosensing, quantum and nonlinear optics, wavefront shaping, data storage and displays. For example, recent progress in dielectric metasurfaces allows the design and fabrication of flat optics devices that show potential to replace conventional bulk optics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
20. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Photonic cavities play a paramount role in the whole field of optics, ranging from sensing, lasing, harmonic generation or even quantum optics. A variety of configuration is proposed and realized with continuous progressing to improve the light condiment. However, better performance always accompanied with more sophisticated fabrication techniques, which hinders the application at industrial level. On the other hand, the development in disordered photonics may shed light on realizing a cavity with greatly reduced fabrication tolerance. This project will focus on how to use disorder to develop new type of photonic cavities with the balance between the performance and fabrication easiness and combine it with cutting edge applications.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
21. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Changes and reactions of matter require the motion of atoms and electrons from initial to final positions. This happens within femtoseconds for atoms and within attoseconds for electron densities. The method of ultrafast electron diffraction allows to visualize such processes in all four dimensions of space and time. This is made possible by the picometer-sized de Broglie wavelength of keV-electrons, resulting in a ‘4D-movie’ of atoms/electrons in motion (see Figures).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
22. Fully Funded PhD Position
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Nanophotonics has revolutionized optics by controlling light propagation on length scales far below the optical diffraction limit, enabling breakthrough applications in energy harvesting, beam shaping, and few-molecule biodetection. To push the limits of light-matter coupling, the project will combine an emerging class of all-dielectric optical metasurfaces [Science 360, 1105 (2018)] with artificial intelligence (AI) methods for nanophotonic design and data analysis [Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 14810 (2019)]. Working at the intersection of nanotechnology, machine learning, and biospectroscopy, the successful applicant will use state-of-the-art computational and experimental infrastructure to realize new optical sensing platforms with broad applications from fundamental biophysics to medical diagnostics.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
23. Fully Funded PhD Position
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The goal of this PhD projectis to analyze the MAX DOAS data in combination with the additional sensor data from the other instruments in order to analyze the distribution of NO2 in Munich. Additionally, the mobile MAX DOAS will be used on measurement campaigns. Part of the thesis will be organizing new measurement campaign, but also to analyze the data from past campaigns. This includes mobile measurements on the highway, monitoring locations in the outskirts of Munich for comparison with the city center measurements, but also a campaign where we installed the MAX DOAS on a zeppelin. The derived profile information has tobe validated using alternative measurement techniques, e.g. in-situ sensors on a drone.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
24. Fully Funded PhD Position
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In our research program we strive to achieve synthetic control over the creation of functional nanostructures and investigate their physical properties. Periodic porous materials such as templated mesoporous materials, metalorganic frameworks and covalent organic frameworks offer a multitude of opportunities to create such nanostructures. This is based on their compositional and topological diversity, the well-defined dimensions of their nanoscale pore systems, and the great variety of possible interface design within the pore system and on the external surface. In addition to the porous material itself, the nanoscale morphology of such materials is of particular interest, as it provides an important tool to impart specific properties and functions.
