Do you have a Master’s degree and are looking for fully funded PhD opportunities? Max Planck Society, Munich, Germany is now accepting applications for several funded PhD programs across a range of research areas.
1. Fully Funded PhD in Functional brain imaging
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Molecular Signaling Lab combines bioengineering and preclinical in vivo imaging to understand molecular signaling that underlies mammalian brain function. Joining us, you will have the opportunity to apply novel genetic tools to study molecular brain function using optical, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Our interdisciplinary approach encourages researchers with different backgrounds to collaborate and develop their skills to bridge molecular, cellular and organismal levels.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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2. Fully Funded PhD in Microtubule mechanical failure and interaction with tau proteins
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics (Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller) invites applications for a PhD Student (f/m/d) for the project Microtubule mechanical failure and interaction with tau proteins. The project aims at elucidating the mechanical properties and failure of microtubule filaments as well as their interactions with intrinsically disordered proteins such as tau proteins, which are involved in neurodegenerative diseases. To this end, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics methods will be used.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
3. 11 Fully Funded PhD in international mw-atlas project
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The mw-atlas project invites applications for PhD positions, to be held at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany, and at the Institute for Astrophysics – FORTH at Heraklion, Crete. Funded by an ERC Synergy grant, mw-atlas aspires to construct the first self-consistent, comprehensive, three-dimensional atlas of the Milky Way in all of its components, based on available and upcoming multi-wavelength datasets, on the physical interconnections between components, on the mathematical framework of Information Field Theory, and its usage in medical imaging or Earth monitoring.
Application Deadline: January 15th, 2025
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4. Fully Funded PhD in Biochemistry / Biophysics: Enabling Unique Dynamic Molecular Imaging Experiments
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Department of Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell invites applications for a PhD position in biochemistry or biophysics to start as soon as possible. Opportunities are available in Heidelberg and Göttingen for highly motivated biochemists, chemists or biotechnologists who are interested in working in a world-leading, multidisciplinary research group. The successful candidate will be able to apply for admission to the Max Planck School of Photonics or Heidelberg Biosciences International Graduate School (HBIGS).
Application Deadline: 16th Dec 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD in Physics: Pushing the Boundaries of Optical Molecular Imaging
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Department of Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell invites applications for a PhD position at the intersections of optical science, molecular imaging and biophysics to start as soon as possible. Opportunities are available in Heidelberg and Göttingen for highly motivated physicists who are interested in working in a world-leading, multidisciplinary research group. The successful candidate will be able to apply for admission to the Max Planck School of Photonics or Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences (GGNB).
Application Deadline: 16th Dec 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD in Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Cognition
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The department of Systems Neuroscience and Neuroengineering at the Max Planck Institute forBiological Cybernetics is launching a new multi-year interdisciplinary project to understand the mechanisticbasis of spatial cognition. The department is jointly led by Max Planck Research Group leaders – Drew Robson and Jennifer Li. This pioneering research program will combine brain-wide neuralrecording in freely moving zebrafish during naturalistic spatial navigation and learning (e.g. Yang et al, Nature,2024),synapse-level reconstructions of brain-wide cognitive networks in collaborationwith the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, and brain-wide molecular profiling of spatial cellsin collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
7. Fully Funded PhD in Cultural Embeddedness of Private Law
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The positions are assigned to the project “Cultural Embeddedness of the Law of Obligations” within our Max Planck Research Group “Transformations in Private Law: Culture, Climate, and Technology”. In this project, the group seeks to understand the cultural embeddedness of legal processes in the law of obligations (primarily contracts and torts) and how legal professionals deal with their own and others’ cultural conceptions of normality. Its ultimate goal is to contribute to the improvement of legal doctrine and practice regarding the inclusive application of private law in culturally diverse societies.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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8. Fully Funded PhD
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Conventional accounts of European integration have often insisted on the novelty of the supranational law developed in that context, asserting its ‘sui generis’ character and highlighting its differences with earlier forms of international and regional integration. However, forms of supranational law and institutions already existed during the interwar period. This was the case within the League of Nations and its broader context, which included international(ized) institutions both in Europe and in (semi-)colonial settings. The research group explores the continuities and discontinuities between the law of these interwar institutions and the law developed within the context of European integration.
Application Deadline: 6th January, 2025
9. Fully Funded PhD in Receptor Structures at the Plant-Microbe Interface
Summary of Funded PhD Program
A doctoral student position is available in the Foerderer laboratory in the research project ‘Molecular basis of viral recognition and associated plant signalling’, at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany. The project includes state-of-the-art cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of proteins involved in resistance of crop plants towards viruses. The protein structure knowledge will be used for crop improvement to generate new cultivars that are equipped for the future challenges in agriculture (climate change). Our recently founded junior group is located at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology and part of the Department ‘Root biology and mycorrhiza’ (Prof. Caroline Gutjahr).
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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10. Fully Funded PhD in Data-driven and genome-edited breeding of locally adapted wheat varieties to increase agricultural biodiversity, sustainable climate resilience and resource efficiency
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The changing climate also poses new challenges for wheat breeding and thus for securing our food supply. The high-yielding elite varieties must therefore be adapted to new weather conditions and pathogens as quickly as possible. Big data-based approaches can help to screen the available genetic diversity and identify useful alleles to safeguard our bread wheat against future hazards. However, these advantageous alleles, which often originate from old varieties with low yields, must then be introduced into the elite cultivars. This takes a very long time with classic crossing. The new genome editing techniques, on the other hand, open up the possibility of achieving this much more quickly.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
11. Fully Funded PhD in Quantum Materials
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials (MPGC-QM) currently has an open call for multiple fully funded PhD student positions. Deadline for submission of your application is December 11th 2024! Six Max Planck Institutes (Dresden, Erlangen, Hamburg, Halle and Stuttgart) – all of them world-leading institutions in their respective fields – bring together their expertise in the research on quantum materials and thus offer a truly unique graduate program in this intriguing research area.
Application Deadline: December 11 2024
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12. Fully Funded PhD in Battery Technology
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The project focuses on the investigation of novel metal fiber-based fleeces to be used as current collectors for ultra-thick lithium ion battery electrodes, granting access to battery cells with vastly improved energy density. Potential working areas of the candidates can include simulations of the system, further improving the fleece-based current collectors, developing new types of active materials, and assembling and testing of battery cells, or a combination thereof.
Application Deadline: 31.01.2025
13. 02 Fully Funded PhD in Biophysical mechanisms of MRI contrast / Metabolism and neurovascular coupling in activation and deactivation
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The scientific focus of one project is on ”Biophysical mechanisms of MRI contrast”. Many physical properties that can be used for MR-based tissue characterization show an apparent dependence on the orientation of the object in the main magnetic field. An analysis of the underlying physics allows to model these effects for obtaining more specific information on tissue microstructure and composition or achieves a better understanding of image contrast.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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14. Fully Funded PhD in Robotic Composites
Summary of Funded PhD Program
Our new lab works at the intersection of mechanics, robotics, materials, and design, benefiting from and contributing to sub-fields such as soft and underactuated robots, architected materials, modular robotics, granular matter, swarm robotics, and circular engineering. We focus on the design, fabrication, modeling, and testing of active composite metamaterials which can function not only as structural components but also as actuators and sensors. We develop experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches to address key challenges in minimally invasive medical procedures, sustainable manufacturing, and human-material interaction.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2024
15. Fully Funded PhD in Chiral Quantum Materials – ERC project ChiralTopMat
Summary of Funded PhD Program
The Schröter Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale), Germany, is looking for a motivated PhD student, ideally with experience in angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) and/or thin-film growth with molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and/or scanning-tunneling spectroscopy (STM). However, other research backgrounds will also be considered. The project will focus on the exploration of chiral quantum materials as part of the ERC Starting Grant project ChiralTopMat [1-6]. Moreover, chiral quantum materials are also going to be the focus of the “Center for Chiral Electronics” Excellence Initiative collaboration with the University Halle-Wittenberg [7].
Application Deadline: Open until filled
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