PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Archaeology in Germany

PhD Researcher in Wild Bee Translocation and Genetic Connectivity The Animal Ecology research group at Philipps-Universität Marburg is offering a doctoral research position within the international BeeConn project, “Bee Genetic Connectivity Across Landscapes: Insect Translocation and Population Establishment for Ecological Restoration.” The position is offered in collaboration with Dr. Felix Fornoff at the Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology at the University of Freiburg. The proj...

This PhD project is based at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy | Geobiology at the University of Cologne and is embedded in the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1158 Antarctic Research . The research focuses on the palaeoecological evolution of lakes in East Antarctica , with particular attention to how microbial communities changed during the Holocene in response to environmental and climatic shifts. The successful candidate will work with sediment deposits from several Antarctic lakes to recon...

The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is offering a postdoctoral position in the Genes and Behavior Research Group, based in Constance and Radolfzell, Germany. The project examines the sensory ecology of worm towers in Caenorhabditis nematodes, building on recent findings that towering behavior can function as a mechanism for collective dispersal. The successful candidate will study how worm towers acquire, process, and respond to environmental and social information to enable tower constr...

This PhD project is part of the University of Cologne’s interdisciplinary initiative “The Rhine Floodplain – a Biogeochemically Coupled System under Stress” , which examines how altered hydrology reshapes floodplain sediment dynamics, biodiversity, food webs, microbial processes, and greenhouse gas emissions. The advertised doctorate focuses on soil microbial nutrient stoichiometry and soil-atmosphere exchange in river floodplains. The successful candidate will investigate how nutrient constrain...

The University of Cologne’s Institute of Geography is offering an interdisciplinary PhD project on the Rhine floodplain as a biogeochemically coupled system under stress. The project examines how altered hydrology shapes floodplain sediment dynamics and the wider ecosystem response, linking physical and geochemical processes with biodiversity, food webs, microbial activity, and greenhouse gas emissions. The doctoral researcher will contribute to a collaborative project with other PhD students an...

Hamburg University of Technology is recruiting a fully funded PhD researcher at the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics to investigate groundwater–land–climate interactions. The doctoral project will combine artificial intelligence, satellite Earth observation, global datasets, and environmental modeling. The research will examine these interconnected environmental processes across regional to global scales, with a strong emphasis on computational analysis and Earth-system understanding. The posit...

The Understanding Written Artefacts doctoral programme is offered at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, in cooperation with DESY and Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg). It examines handwriting and other written artefacts as a key cultural technique from a global perspective, bringing together expertise from the humanities, the natural sciences, and computer science. Doctoral researchers work in an interdisciplinary environment that connects ...

The Graduate School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS) at the University of Hamburg offers a structured PhD programme focused on basic research into climate system interactions and climate effects. The programme is designed to support doctoral researchers in building strong disciplinary expertise while also developing interdisciplinary thinking and international networking. Doctoral researchers follow a curriculum with compulsory introduction courses in climate system scienc...

The Department of Chinese Studies in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen is seeking a pre-doctoral researcher to undertake a PhD research project in Chinese Studies/Sinology. The position offers an opportunity to develop a research profile focused on China or Greater China, particularly across historical and interdisciplinary approaches. The doctoral research may engage with areas such as social and cultural history, environmental history, the history of med...