Scholarship Details: The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School with over 150 PhD students who are educated in a structured, interdisciplinary training program based on top?level fundamental research. It conceptionally combines different research areas to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication. Institutes [...]

Scholarship Details: The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School with over 150 PhD students who are educated in a structured, interdisciplinary training program based on top?level fundamental research. It conceptionally combines different research areas to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication. Institutes [...]

Scholarship Details: The Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) is funded by the German Excellence Initiative. JSMC is an ambitious Graduate School with over 150 PhD students who are educated in a structured, interdisciplinary training program based on top-level fundamental research. It conceptionally combines different research areas to a comprehensive picture of microbial communication (www.jsmc.uni-jena.de). [...]

Scholarship Details: MyoGrad seeks to attract excellent and highly motivated students who wish to obtain a PhD in the field of muscle-related cell and molecular biology and intend to embark on a scientific career. Applications from medical doctors with a keen interest in clinical and scientific aspects of muscle diseases are also welcome. In addition [...]

Scholarship Details: The MIPLC is a part of the DAAD’s program of “Postgraduate Courses for Professionals with Relevance to Developing Countries.” If you would like to apply for the scholarship offered in this context, please note that several special conditions apply. Please read the information provided here very carefully. The application deadline for the 2012/13 [...]

Scholarship Details: A newly founded doctoral program in “Chromosome Dynamics”, including groups from MFPL and GMI, is offering PhD student positions through an embedded call as part of the present MFPL call. At MFPL, Gustav Ammerer, Alexander Dammermann, Juraj Gregan, Verena Jantsch (deputy speaker), Franz Klein, Josef Loidl and Peter Schlögelhofer will work on the [...]

Scholarship Details: The DFG and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have initiated a joint funding program. The NIH-DFG Research Career Transition Awards will enable young scientists to pursue research over a consecutive period of five to six-years, beginning at one of the NIH institutes in the USA and continuing at a German research [...]

Scholarship Details: The Munich-based Center for NanoScience (CeNS) announces its 2012 call for applications for PhD positions. Outstanding graduate students from all around the world in the fields of natural sciences and life sciences are invited to submit their application. The PhD positions will start between May and October 2012.

Scholarship Details: The Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme is an international fellowship programme for doctoral candidates pursuing research into the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. Every year, the programme offers up to 12 junior researchers the opportunity to spend a year working on research at the location of their choice. During the course of the [...]

Scholarship Details: A PhD student position in the field of autoimmune skin blistering disease research is immediately available at Genetics group in the Department of Dermatology, University of Luebeck, Germany. The project aim is to study the mechanisms and the functional effects of newly identified genetic risk variants in autoimmune blistering diseases. To reach this [...]

Scholarship Details: Qualified candidates should possess an excellent masters or diploma degree in theoretical physics or theoretical chemistry. A solid background in quantum mechanics is a prerequisite, programming experience would be advantageous. Good command of the English language is required, knowledge of German beneficial, but not required. Most importantly, however, the candidate should be highly [...]

Scholarship Details: The International Research Training Group (IGDK 1754) “Optimization and Numerical Analysis for Partial Differential Equations with Nonsmooth Structures” funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) associated with the four universities. Applicants are asked to submit a curriculum vitae, copies of certifications of academic qualifications held, a copy of a [...]

Scholarship Details: The division Redox Regulation is looking for a highly motivated PhD student to study the role of endogenous oxidants in lung cancer development. The project will involve in vivo and in situ redox imaging in a mouse tumor model using newly developed biosensor technology (compare Albrecht et al. 2011 Cell Metab 14(6)). The [...]

Scholarship Details: We offer a position for a PhD student in the DFG-funded research unit INUIT (Ice Nuclei Research Unit). The position is located at IMK-AAF in the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group “Aerosol effects on cloud ice, precipitation and climate” With the help of the mesoscale model COSMO, you are going to study aerosol-cloud interactions [...]

Scholarship Details: The new Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group (HRJRG) “Measurements of Gamma Rays and Charged Cosmic Rays in the Tunka-Valley in Siberia by Innovative New Technologies” aims at high-energy gamma-ray astronomy and cosmic ray astrophysics. The projected air-shower detectors will be based on the air Cherenkov technique and the radio detection technique (tunka-hrjrg.desy.de). In the [...]

Scholarship Details: The position is integrated in the subproject ‘Elucidation of anaerobic benzene and alkylated aromatic compound degradation pathways and associated proteins by proteomic and metabolomic analyses’. The project aims to detect key proteins and metabolites involved in anaerobic benzene and alkylated compound degradation. Methods used will include anaerobic cultivation, protein preparation and LC-MS/MS analyses [...]

Scholarship Details: Offered is a position in the Div. Molecular Basis of Gastrointestinal Cancers, with a concrete perspective – upon solid performance – for setting up your own team. The new research division is supported by an endowment from the K.H. Bauer-foundation. The aim of its effort is to discover better treatment options for pancreatic [...]

Scholarship Details: The West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (http://www.wascal.org/) is a program designed to enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. The WASCAL Core Research Program focuses on improving the adaptive capacity of human-environmental systems in the face of climate change. [...]

Scholarships Details: Research topics span the range from fundamental optics to applied optics and medical imaging. The school provides excellent research conditions for highly motivated post-graduate students. The programme is jointly organised by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the Friedrich-Schiller [...]

The Graduate School of the “Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures” (CSMC, Integriertes Graduiertenkolleg im Sonderforschungsbereich 950 “Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa”) at the University of Hamburg invites applications for 6 Ph.D. scholarships (2012-2015) Scholarships of € 1.365 per month (tax free) are granted for a period of three years, starting April 1st [...]

Scholarship Details: The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Organismal Biology offers several PhD student positions. The IMPRS is based in southern Germany and is jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen and Radolfzell and the University of Konstanz. Outstanding students of all nationalities with a deep commitment to basic [...]