Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Control of plants for chemical hydrogen storage systems
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Would you like to actively shape the structural change in the Rhenish mining area together with us? With us you have the chance to join the newly founded Institute for Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW) with your ideas right from the start. Together with the H2 demonstration region, the INW forms the “Helmholtz Cluster for 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
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Dendritic Computing Circuits and Algorithms
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Explore bio-inspired algorithms through simulation—both numerical and circuit-based—and experiment with existing hardware, including CMOS and memristor circuits. Additionally, will need to co-design algorithms and circuits to develop efficient neuromorphic hardware, tailored to target tasks.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
3. Fully Funded PhD in Algorithm and Circuit Co-design for Networks of Analog Complex Neuron Models
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This project, at the Peter Grünberg Institute – Neuromorphic Compute Nodes (PGI-14), explores the capabilities of neural networks (NN) composed of complex neuron models, such as Hodgkin-Huxley or Izhikevich. Such complex neurons can be efficiently engineered in analog circuits including memristive devices and locally active elements. Locally active elements can be realized utilizing volatile memristors (e.g., negative differential resistance). Hardware realizations (e.g., based on VO2 devices) are able to reproduce known biological neuronal dynamics (spike patterns) depending on internal parameter settings. Increasing the internal complexity of the neurons is expected to allow for increasing computational capabilities beyond leaky-integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Electrochemical Engineering
Summary of Funded PhD Program
You will work in the Electrocatalytic Interface Engineering department, which is headed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Simon Thiele. The department focuses on the fabrication, analysis and simulation of functional materials to find an optimal structure on a small scale from the micrometer to the nanometer. The materials and systems examined play an essential role in sustainable technologies such as water and CO2 electrolyzers as well as in fuel cells. The aim is to make a significant contribution to the development of electrochemical energy conversion as a future key player in electromobility and energy policy in general.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
5. Fully Funded PhD in Investigating the role of future energy technologies using natural language processing and data science
Summary of Funded PhD Program
You will develop approaches for the automated and large-scale provision of energy technology information and apply large language models to collect quantitative information from heterogeneous data sources. The data collected will be processed and semantically annotated using procedures you designed before being transferred to a knowledge graph-based technology database that you help to advance. In exchange with stakeholders from energy research, you will develop methods for data quality assessment that enable a robust selection of technology parameters.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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6. Fully Funded PhD in New Synthesis Methods and Production of Polymers and Membranes for AEM Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Would you like to contribute to the energy transition in Germany through your work? Then the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg (for Renewable Energy) (HI ERN) is the right place for you! The HI ERN forms the core of the close partnership between Forschungszentrum Jülich, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg at the Erlangen site. The collaboration relates to the areas of innovative materials and processes for photovoltaic energy systems and hydrogen as a storage and carrier medium for CO2-neutral energy. Support us researching and developing solutions for the climate-neutral, sustainable, and cost-effective utilization of renewable energies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD in Magnetic and structural properties of nanoparticles in solutions
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The aim of this PhD position is to characterize magnetic nanoparticles in solvents, such as water, both magnetically and structurally. For this purpose, chemically synthesized iron oxide nanoparticles with diameters in the range of 10 – 20 nm are used. The objective is to design nanoparticle-solution mixtures in such a way that they are optimal for medical applications such as hyperthermia or magnetic particle imaging (MPI). To this end, the physical and structural properties must first be characterized and understood.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD in NMR Transport Studies of Anion Exchange Membranes for Green Hydrogen Production
Summary of Funded PhD Program
DURALYS is a German-Italian EU-funded research project of academia and industry with the goal of developing a commercially viable water electrolysis cell based on anion exchange membranes (AEMs) for the production of green hydrogen. AEM electrolyzers offer similar advantages to proton exchange membrane (PEM) technology like high efficiency and performance while avoiding fluorinated materials and rare metal catalysts.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
9. Fully Funded PhD in Modelling of Gas Grids for High Performance Computing Simulation
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The increasing share of fluctuating renewable energies in electricity generation leads to increased volatility as well as a strongly changed distribution of the power fed into the grid. This increases the requirements on the flexibility of the system and the operation of power grids. Additional electricity demand to decarbonize various energy sectors, such as transport and heating, as well as intersectoral flexibility options such as power-to-X lead to increasing sectoral interdependencies. Your task is to support our institute in the development of gas grid models that are able to analyze this interaction of energy networks (electricity, gas, heat) and markets at high resolution.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD in High Performance Computing Solutions for Energy Systems
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Computing performance plays a very critical role in the use of model-based approaches to the planning, design, and operation of energy systems. At ICE-1, the department of High-Performance Computing focuses on the development of innovative methodologies for the parallelization of simulation algorithms as well as on the best exploitation of hardware architectures. In this context, we are developing an innovative solver for faster than real time simulation of multi-modal energy system with founding from Helmholtz Foundation and DFG.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD in Planning, Simulation and Optimization of local energy communities
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The concept of organizing energy systems in Local Energy Communities (LECs), which are coordinated across multiple energy sources, has gained considerable attention in recent years. LECs have been recognized by the EU as a key component of the energy transition to integrate the local coordination of energy supply and consumption into overarching systems and grids. The European Commission`s Clean Energy Package has defined a legal framework for the operation of LECs, aiming at the participation of LECs in the energy markets.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Numerical simulation of bijel formation, stability and rheology
Summary of Funded PhD Program
This computational doctoral project focuses on a theoretical understanding of emulsions stabilized by colloidal particles. Mesoscale simulation methods combining a lattice Boltzmann solver for the involved fluids and a Discrete Element solver for the suspended colloidal particles shall be developed and applied on state-of-the-art supercomputers. These simulations will be combined with systematic coarse-graining in order to resolve the dynamics and stability of bijels on all relevant timescales. We aim to understand how these emulsions form and which physical effects influence their stability and rheology.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
13. Fully Funded PhD in Structure-property relationships in the dimethyl ether/CO2 system for the hydrogen storage cycle
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Would you like to actively shape the structural change in the Rhenish mining area together with us? With us you have the chance to join the newly founded Institute for Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (INW) with your ideas right from the start. Together with the H2 demonstration region, the INW forms the “Helmholtz Cluster for 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. You will be part of the institute`s department INW-1.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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14. Fully Funded PhD in Automated creation of energy engineering models for urban districts to assess disruptive events on the security of supply
Summary of Funded PhD Program
At the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Energy Systems Engineering (ICE-1) we focus on the optimal design and operation of integrated, decentralized energy systems with a high share of renewable energy. Computer simulation and numerical optimization are our essential tools to arrive at efficient, reliable and cost-effective solutions. We contribute both to the development of mathematical models and to the development of improved simulation methods and optimization algorithms. Our methods and software-tools are validated against operating data of real systems.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
15. Fully Funded PhD in Numerical Simulations of Active Particles in Foam-Like Confinements
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The aim is to characterize the behaviour of microorganisms with motion restricted into complex environments such as bi-continuous surfaces, draining or sprayed foams. Models details are to be developed in close cooperation with the experimental partners to closely reproduce the properties of specific microorganisms.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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