PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Film Studies 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...

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...

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...

PhD positions are available for the DIW Graduate Center PhD Program in Economics at DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. This opportunity is aimed at doctoral students interested in Economics and related quantitative fields such as Econometrics , Statistics , Mathematics , quantitative social sciences, and engineering backgrounds with sufficient economics preparation. Eligibility highlights: Applicants should hold a master’s degree or diploma in Economics. Applications c...

PhD position available at the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience (IAN), Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Germany. The project sits at the intersection of auditory neuroscience , experimental neurophysiology , computational modeling , and AI . The team aims to develop a digital twin of the auditory system to design and optimize sound-coding strategies for an optical cochlear implant . The work is part of CAIMed and EKFZ-OT (Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Optogenetic Therapies). This is not only ...

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg is advertising a Post-Doc / wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in or Akademische*r Rat/Rätin auf Zeit (m/w/d) at the Chair of Computational Social Science and Artificial Intelligence (CoSSI) . This is a full-time (100%) academic position, initially limited to three years with the option of extension . The post is aimed at candidates with interests in Computational Social Science , Artificial Intelligence , and related Computer Science / social science methods. The...

The University of Oldenburg is advertising a fully funded PhD position in the Safety-Security-Interaction group within the Department of Computer Science. The project sits at the intersection of applied cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, and trustworthy AI, with an explicit application focus on healthcare systems. Research topics may include homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, differential privacy, secure collaborative machine learning, robustness, explainability, ...

Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) is advertising a Research Associate / PhD Student / PostDoc position at the Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chair of Computational Logic . The role is part of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB)/Transregio 248 “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems” and focuses on computer science , theoretical computer science , knowledge representation , logic , description logic , ontology languages , and standpoint logic...