If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Summary of PhD Program:
International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC) in cooperation with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry houses a unique and flexible research program that grants German and foreign students a broad selection of learning opportunities while still maintaining a research focus. The IMPRS-gBGC offers a PhD program specializing in global biogeochemistry and related Earth system sciences.
Application Deadline: July 28th, 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Partners in Crime: Understanding Peer Offending through Virtual Reality
Summary of PhD Program:
The influence of peers is one of the most important drivers of juvenile delinquency. Several decades of research have taught us that having delinquent friends increases the risk of becoming delinquent oneself and that spending time with delinquent peers increases the likelihood of committing crimes of one’s own. These findings hold true across cultures, contexts, and research methods. However, prior research has principally relied on introspective and retrospective research methods, such as surveys, interviews, and panel studies. Exactly how peers influence each other, i.e., what happens at the moment of decision-making, is less well understood.
Application Deadline: 15 July, 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Developing and Testing Crime Reduction Interventions in Public Space using Virtual Reality
Summary of PhD Program:
The MAXLab Virtual Twin Program seeks to address this gap by using virtual reality (VR) to test the effect of interventions in preventing crime and/or increasing public safety. For this purpose, VR replicas of street segments, squares, or other public spaces, i.e., “virtual twins” of the city of Freiburg (and potentially other cities), will be developed and experimentally manipulated. This approach enables the creation of realistic and ecologically valid versions of these areas while maintaining researcher control. Additionally, in a departure from conventional field experiments, VR experiments provide access to the research population and can hence tap into individuals’ motivations, emotions, and cognitions.
Application Deadline: 15 July, 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microtubule Nanomechanics and Turnover under Cell-like Physical Constraints
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics (Prof. Dr. Helmut Grubmüller) is inviting applications for a PhD Student (f/m/d) for the project “Microtubule nanomechanics and turnover under cell-like physical constraints” supervised by Dr. Maxim Igaev. The PhD project involves massively parallel, atomistic and coarse-grained modeling to study the dynamic and mechanic properties of microtubule filaments subject to external forces by space constraints or other cellular factors.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Artificial Justice
Summary of PhD Program:
The Research Group “Artificial Justice” applies interdisciplinary methods to the study of automated, artificial, and algorithmic reasoning in law. Group members research a wide array of topics ranging from pre-modern fantasies of “justice machines,” the transition from legal logic to legal information science, cultural attitudes towards courtroom tech, and the emerging “right to a human decision” to contemporary proposals for AI-powered “lawbots.” Collaboratively, Group members explore a set of more general issues, including the relationship between normative and empirical expertise, law’s epistemological status vis-à-vis technology and the natural sciences as well as limits and opportunities of legal interdisciplinarity.
Application Deadline: 15 July 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and Implementation of Machine Learning Applications and Data Analysis in Translational Psychiatry
Summary of PhD Program:
The MPIP Fellowship led by Prof. Dr. med. Falkai at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry focuses on developing transdiagnostic biomarkers across the spectrum of mental illness. The project group “Translational Deep Phenotyping” explores and validates biomarkers that identify and predict disease severity and treatment response in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and depression. This approach enhances the comprehension of mental illness pathophysiology through a highly interdisciplinary, integrative, and multimodal approach. We utilize multi-omics techniques, functional (epi)genomic approaches, and integrate phenotypic imaging, electrophysiology, and clinical data in our research.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Bioinformatics and Genomics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a talented and highly motivated PhD student (m/f/d) to undertake pioneering research in bioinformatics and genomics at the interface with biology. The applicant (m/f/d) should bring along a Master’s degree in computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science, (bio)-statistics, mathematics, or related fields. The ideal candidate (m/f/d) will demonstrate a strong drive to excel in a dynamic, international, and collaborative research environment. Previous experience in genome-wide data analysis, including RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, or ChIP-seq, as well as basic competence in a programming language such as Python or R will be advantageous. Please indicate your proficiency level in your cover letter.
Application Deadline: 23 June 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Statistical primate demography
Summary of PhD Program:
We are offering a Doctoral position (m/f/d) | Statistical primate demography, starting in October 2024, full-time (39 h/week). The Statistical Demography Research Group at the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution is looking for a talented and motivated young scientist passionate about carrying out research towards a doctoral thesis in statistical primate demography, with applications to primate ecology, evolution, and aging.
The work will focus on development and application of state-of-the-art inference models for primate demography under the supervision of Dr. Fernando Colchero and in collaboration with the Department’s Director, Prof. Jenny Tung. The overarching goal of this work is to understand the influence of social and environmental factors on male and female fertility and survival, as well as sex-differences in actuarial and reproductive aging in primates.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Simulation, Optimization, and Experimental Validation of an Ammonia Reforming Process
Summary of PhD Program:
The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is limited to three years. The research topic contributes to the concept of a hydrogen economy. Hydrogen will play a central role in the future energy supply. In particular, “green” hydrogen, which is produced using renewable energy, opens up a wide range of potential for a sustainable industrial and technological landscape. One promising option for transporting hydrogen over long distances is to bind it to other molecules. Ammonia, a nitrogen-hydrogen compound that is already widely used in agriculture and industry, offers itself as such a compound. The wealth of experience in handling this chemical suggests that ammonia offers promising prospects as an energy carrier and hydrogen storage molecule.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in An Urban Anthropology of the Nearby
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Economic Experimentation is highlighting “the nearby;” the physical and social space between the home and the intimately familiar, on the one hand, and the anonymous urban environment and larger world, on the other. We respond to concerns that this space, a crucial source of social experience, is increasingly under threat by processes including securitisation and the spread of electronic communications and delivery services. We seek to support ethnographic projects that address the ongoing significance of the nearby in contemporary urban experience, by studying both individual perceptions and engagements with the nearby, and collective efforts to resuscitate and reshape it, including projects focusing on neighbourhood sociality, economic revitalisation, ecological concerns, the built environment, the provision of care, and artistic expression, among other possibilities.
Application Deadline: 23 June 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Development and Implementation of Machine Learning Applications and Data Analysis in Translational Psychiatry
Summary of PhD Program:
The MPIP Fellowship led by Prof. Dr. med. Falkai at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry focuses on developing transdiagnostic biomarkers across the spectrum of mental illness. The project group “Translational Machine Learning” aims to develop clinically guided translational machine learning applications for the use in psychiatry. Specifically, we are developing and applying unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques to answer a multitude of questions in severe mental disorders, ranging from affective and psychotic disorders to paraphilias or dementia. Our focus lies in combining clinical expertise with state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms as well as interpretable AI approaches to develop clinically useful tools that can aid the diagnostic and therapeutic process in clinical care.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in IMPRS Immunobiology & Epigenetics
Summary of PhD Program:
We are filling Doctoral Positions at the “International Max Planck Research School” (IMPRS-IEM) of the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics. We are looking for talented and motivated students with a passion for science, aspiring to work towards a doctoral degree in the fields of Epigenetics, Metabolism, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics and Proteomics.
Application Deadline: 21st June 2024
