PhD Positions in Functional Material Design at the International Max Planck Research School Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany

PhD positions are available in Germany at the Max Planck Institute through the IMPRS Functional Material Design programme. The opportunity is aimed at candidates with an MSc in Natural Sciences or Engineering. The post highlights fully funded support and structured training, along with access to a Berlin/Potsdam research network. Research keywords include materials science, functional material design, and related engineering/natural sciences areas. This is a doctoral opening rather than a schola...

PhD opening at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg, Germany, in the newly established research group Phase Transition Engineering led by Dr. Leif-Thore Deck . The project is titled “Designing biomolecular crystallization and precipitation processes” and focuses on understanding and engineering how solids form from fluids. The research combines chemical engineering , bioengineering , biomolecular crystallization , precipitation processes , process desig...

Two postdoc opportunities are open in Berlin, Germany at the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) and the Berlin Battery Lab (BBL) . The positions are in the division Electrochemical Energy Materials and focus on battery materials analysis , with emphasis on advanced characterization methods such as in-situ battery NMR , automated SAXS , synchrotron measurements at BESSY-II , XAS , and vapour sorption . The research aims to support the development of safe and sustainable batter...

DLR Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics is advertising a Postdoctoral Researcher position in next-generation battery research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart, Germany . The project focuses on multivalent metal batteries , especially magnesium and calcium-based systems, with an emphasis on improving energy storage performance through materials development, electrochemical evaluation, transport phenomena, and interfacial processes. Research activities include development and ...

PhD position available in the Electrochemical Energy Systems group at the University of Freiburg for research on electrode/catalyst development for PFAS-free fuel cells . The project focuses on fabricating and evaluating catalyst-ionomer composite electrodes , systematically varying ionomer-to-carbon ratios and catalyst architectures , and integrating the developed electrodes into fuel cell devices . Research activities include electrochemical characterization such as fuel cell measurements, cyc...