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

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is seeking motivated PhD and postdoctoral researchers to join the SYDSEN (Systems, Data, Simulation & Energy Research Group) under the supervision of Professor Sanja Lazarova-Molnar. The research focuses on data-driven modeling, simulation, expert knowledge, and Digital Twins to support better decision-making in complex systems. Potential application areas include smart manufacturing, energy systems, reliability, and other cyber-physical systems...

Fully Funded PhD Position in Cognitive Psychology Trier University in Germany is offering a fully funded PhD position in the Cognitive Psychology Lab under the supervision of Prof. Christian Frings. The thesis is titled “Visual Search Meets Action Control: The Role of Statistical Regularities.” The project focuses on cognitive psychology, visual search, action control, and the role of statistical regularities in human behavior and cognition. Applicants should hold a Master's degree in psychology...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Economics and Business The Berlin School of Economics is accepting applications for its structured PhD Program in Economics and Business, with the program beginning in October 2027. The opportunity is open to highly qualified postgraduate students from around the world who are interested in advanced economic and business research. The program is fully funded and has no tuition fees. During the qualification phase, successful students receive a stipend of €1,650 pe...

The Leibniz Institute for Horticultural Sciences (IGZ) in Großbeeren, Germany, is offering a fixed-term postdoctoral position in the research group Plant-Microbe Systems within the DFG-funded collaborative project Multi-level Corpus for Microbial Ecology (MuCoME). The position focuses on metabarcoding data curation and bioinformatics, with particular emphasis on building an AI-ready microbial ecology data corpus. The successful candidate will help expand the Microbial Community Database (MiCoDa)...

The Right Livelihood College Campus at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany, is offering fully funded workshop scholarships for PhD students interested in the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources. The workshop will take place in Bonn on 1–2 December 2026 and is supported by DAAD. Eligible applicants are PhD students from Africa, Asia, or Latin America who are studying at a German university. Applicants may come from natural, social, economic, de...

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH is offering a three-year PhD position in economics at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Jülich Systems Analysis (ICE-2), based in Jülich, Germany. The doctoral project investigates public opinion and sentiment on energy policy through systematic data collection and natural language processing (NLP). The research will identify and characterize stakeholder groups relevant to energy policy, draw on economic theory, and translate findings into specifications...

DIW Berlin – German Institute for Economic Research is advertising a Postdoc Public Economics (f/m/d) position in Berlin, Germany, with a hybrid working arrangement. The postdoctoral researcher will join the Public Economics Department and conduct high-quality scientific research aimed at publishing in leading Economics journals. Suggested research areas include demographic change, the distributional effects of tax and transfer systems, and household behavior over the lifecycle. The position off...

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join Iliya Stoev’s research group through a recently awarded DFG Emmy Noether project, “DNA hydrogel-based sensors for thermally responsive detection of mechanical signals.” The project investigates sequence-programmable DNA hydrogels as smart biosensing materials that respond to temperature and detect mechanical signals. The research combines DNA nanotechnology, biosensing, biophysics, materials science, physics, an...

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at TU Darmstadt, Germany in NLP , Large Language Models (LLMs) , and AI for Cybersecurity . The position is titled “Postdoctoral Researcher – Expert Judgment in LLMs, with a Focus on Cybersecurity” and runs for 12 months from January to December 2027 . The research themes highlighted in the post include natural language processing, large language models, learning from limited expert input, and developing AI systems that produce useful outputs for domain expert...