PhD positions

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• Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in the field of relationships between protected area staff and local communities (opens in new tab)

  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences · Germany

  Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences – Geography DepartmentDoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) in the field of relationships between protected area staff and local communities with expected 75 % part-time employment - E…

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• The Role of Individuals Versus Teams in Transformative Scientific Breakthroughs Doctoral project supervised by Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias H. Tschöp (Ludwig Maximilian University/Munich) (opens in new tab)

  Hector Fellow Academy · Munich · Germany

  Project Description: The planned doctoral project investigates whether groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs in STEM are primarily attributable to the genius of individual visionary figures or to synergetic team effor…

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• PhD Project on AI-Driven Cancer Prevention Using App-Collected Digital Health and Nutrition Data at Scale supervised by Prof. Dr. Carolin Schneider (TU Dresden) (opens in new tab)

  Hector Fellow Academy · Dresden · Germany

  Project description: Cancer prevention increasingly requires the analysis of routinely collected data generated in everyday digital environments. This PhD project will develop large-scale, AI-driven approaches to integr…

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• PhD Project on Mechanisms of Neural and Behavioral Change in the Developing Visual System in Humans Doctoral project supervised by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder (University Hamburg) (opens in new tab)

  Hector Fellow Academy · Hamburg · Germany

  Project descriptionMechanisms of neural and behavioral change in the visual system of humans Keywords Visual and multisensory functions, neuroplasticity, learning, visual attention, visual spatial processing, locomotion…

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• MALVISTA: Engineering a human Blood–Retinal Barrier Model to Understand Cerebral Malaria (opens in new tab)

  Hector Fellow Academy · Erlangen · Germany

  About the projectThe Introini Lab (https://mpzpm.mpg.de/research/viola-introini) seeks a motivated PhD candidate for the MalVISTA project, developing a 3D human inner blood–retinal barrier model to study malaria retinop…

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• Doctoral Candidate (PhD) in Experimental Marine Ecology (100% TVL E13) (opens in new tab)

  University of Oldenburg · Wilhelmshaven · Germany

  Response diversity describes the variation in how individuals, species, or functional groups respond to environmental change and the concept is increasingly recognised as a key driver of ecosystem resilience. Understand…

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• PhD Project on Control of Cardiovascular Inflammaging supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefanie Dimmeler (Goethe University Frankfurt) (opens in new tab)

  Hector Fellow Academy · Frankfurt am Main · Germany

  The Hector Fellow Academy offers you the opportunity to work on a research project under supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Stefanie Dimmeler. She is one of the Hector Fellows, a community of outstanding professors from…

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• PhD Position: 3D Printed Synthetic Cells for Chemical Communication – Walther Lab, University of Mainz (Germany) (opens in new tab)

  University of Mainz · Mainz · Germany

  PhD Researcher Position3D Printed Synthetic Cells for Chemical CommunicationWalther Lab @ University of Mainz – Germany (www.walther-group.com)Max Planck Graduate Center between MPI for Polymer Research and JGUKey words…

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• PhD Researcher Positions – ERC Advanced Grant ProtoEco: Protoecologies between Artificial Cells and Mammalian Cells (opens in new tab)

  University of Mainz · Mainz · Germany

  PhD Researcher PositionsERC Advanced Grant Project ProtoEco – Protoecologies between Artificial Cells and Mammalian CellsWalther Lab @ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, GermanyMax Planck Research Fellow Group @ Max P…

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• Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d) on Process Simulation for Metal Cycles (opens in new tab)

  Universität Bayreuth · Germany · Germany

  The University of Bayreuth is a research-oriented university with internationally competitive and interdisciplinary research and teaching profiles.The following part-time position (TV-L E13, 75 % of full-time equivalent…

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• PhD Student (f/m/d) (opens in new tab)

  Leibniz-Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research · Germany

  Join the Molecular Plant Nutrition research group at the IPK in frame of the DFG-ISF joint project “UNLOCK”. Our research focuses on deciphering the nutrient-sensing mechanisms that regulate root development, nutrient u…

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• Doctoral Candidate (PhD student position) at University Hospital Regensburg, Germany / DC3 - SHIELD Doctoral Network (opens in new tab)

  University of Gothenburg · Regensburg · Germany

  Join the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network SHIELD (Strategies for Healing Implant-associated infections and Enhancing Longevity in Devices) and contribute to cutting-edge research aimed at comb…

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• Doctoral Researcher in the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense (opens in new tab)

  University of Oldenburg · Oldenburg · Germany

  The newly funded Cluster of Excellence NaviSense - working on the Sensory Basis, Mechanisms, and Impacts of Animal Navigation - is a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary research consortium hosted at the Universit…

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• DOCTORAL RESEARCHER (5) – High-Voltage PPU for E-sail (opens in new tab)

  Technische Universitaet Dresden · Dresden · Germany

  TUD Dresden University of Technology, as a University of Excellence, is one of the leading and most dynamicresearch institutions in the country. For TUD diversity is an essential feature and a quality criterion of an ex…

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• 12 FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITIONS at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (opens in new tab)

  Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research · Cologne · Germany

  The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) in Germany is a joint venture of the University of Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), the University Hospital and th…

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• Fully Funded PhD Positions at the International Max Planck Research School for Functional Material Design in Potsdam, Germany (opens in new tab)

  Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces · Potsdam · Germany

  Join the new International Max Planck Research school (IMPRS) for Functional Material Design in Summer 2027!We are recruiting doctoral candidates to help shape a resource-efficient future. The candidates will work on in…

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• Doctoral Researchers (f/m/d) in Molecular Communications at the Institute for Digital Communications (opens in new tab)

  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · Erlangen · Germany

  Overview on the Research Area: While conventional communication systems rely on electromagnetic waves, in Molecular Communication (MC), information is encoded into the properties of molecules. This allows communication…

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• Call for PhD Fellow position interested in applying for MSCA DN in Hub Molecules of Metabolism and Signalling -Key regulators of Life (HubMOL DC7) (opens in new tab)

  Eisbach Bio GmbH · Martinsried · Germany

  In the context of the European Horizon funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - doctoral network HubMOL - Hub Molecules of Metabolism and Signalling – Key regulators of Life we have 1 PhD position available at the compan…

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• Research Associate (f/m/d) in Applied Mathematics (opens in new tab)

  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät · Germany

  Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences – Department of MathematicsResearch Associate (f/m/d) in Applied Mathematics with expected 3/4 part-time employment – E 13 TV-L HU (third-party funding limited until 31.10.202…

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• Programme Officer – EMBL International Centre for Advanced Training (opens in new tab)

  EMBL - Personnel Section · Heidelberg · Germany

  Training the next generation of scientists is a core mission of the EMBL. EICAT’s Internal Scientific Training team coordinates EMBL’s Predoctoral and Postdoctoral programmes. Both programmes leverage EMBL’s interdiscip…

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• CISPA PhD General Call: Summer 2026 (opens in new tab)

  CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · Saarbrücken · Germany

  We’re excited to share that applications are now open for the CISPA PhD General Call: Summer 2026–our largest annual PhD intake. It’s a unique chance to join a leading international research institution, work in a highl…

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  EURAXESS · EU portal · posted 3 months ago · older posting, may have been filled