PhD Positions in Artificial Cells, Biomaterials, and Mammalian Cell Interfaces at University of Mainz University of Mainz in Germany

Andreas Walther at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is inviting applications for a PhD Researcher or Postdoc position in the ERC Advanced Grant project ProtoEco — Protoecologies between Artificial Cells and Mammalian Cells . The project asks bold interdisciplinary questions about whether synthetic cells can live, communicate, and cooperate with mammalian cells, whether ecologies can be built from such systems, and what emergent properties and therapeutic concepts may arise in the biomaterials...

PhD Researcher Positions are available in the ERC Advanced Grant project ProtoEco: Protoecologies between Artificial Cells and Mammalian Cells in the Walther Lab at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , Germany, with close links to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. This is a funded doctoral opportunity in an ambitious, interdisciplinary research environment at the interface of chemistry, biomaterials, synthetic biology, and cell biology. The project explores how life-like artificial...

PhD Position: Engineer Living Materials at INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials . This doctoral researcher opportunity sits in the Bioprogrammable Materials research group of Shrikrishnan Sankaran . The project combines synthetic biology , biomaterials , microbiology , and materials science to explore how engineered bacteria and smart biomaterials can be integrated into next-generation theranostic systems . Research tasks include engineering lactobacilli with synthetic genetic circuits, dev...

PhD position at the University of Freiburg in the Electrochemical Biosensors Group on Optimization of Carbon Electrode Interfaces for Reagent-Free Electrochemical Detection at the Point of Need . This research project focuses on developing robust carbon electrode interfaces for electrochemical biosensors and multi-analyte detection in human body fluids. The work combines surface engineering , biofunctionalization , anti-biofouling strategies, DNA-based electrode functionalization, multiplexed mo...

Heidelberg University is advertising a PhD opportunity in responsive and tunable hydrogel platforms for next-generation biomedical applications. The project sits at the interface of polymer chemistry, materials science, biomedical engineering, and medical science, with a strong focus on the molecular design, synthesis, and characterization of functional polymer materials. The successful PhD candidate will develop innovative polymer systems with tailored chemical, mechanical, and biological prope...