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

The Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research (CGA) at the University of Cologne offers a structured doctoral programme in the highly interdisciplinary field of ageing biology. It is run in cooperation with the CECAD Cluster of Excellence, University Hospital Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research. The programme is designed to train a new generation of biomedical scientists focused on the basic biology of ageing and on trans...

A PhD position is available at the Professorship of Exercise, Nutrition, and Health at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. The project focuses on nutrition and metabolism, with a specialization in multimodal imaging of thermogenic activity in brown adipose tissue in response to a high-protein diet. The PhD student will work with Prof. Dr. Karsten Köhler. Key responsibilities include coordinating and conducting a human intervention study at the Munich study site, performing physiological...

Postdoc opportunity in Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Metabolic Aging at Helmholtz Zentrum München – Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (Institute for Diabetes and Cancer, Germany). This postdoctoral project sits at the intersection of neuroscience , epigenetics , metabolic aging , molecular biology , bioinformatics , and medical science . The research group Metabolic Programming across Generations is studying how early-life and maternal metabolic stress influences brain aging,...

PhD opportunity in organelle biology , proteomics , and cardiometabolic disease at Helmholtz Zentrum München (Institute for Diabetes and Obesity, Research Unit Cellular Proteomics and Metabolic Signaling, headed by Dr. Natalie Krahmer). The project is embedded in the DFG-funded CRC 1774 Cardio-Diabetes Crosstalk (CARDDIAB) and focuses on inter-organ communication, metabolic regulation, inflammation, cellular energy metabolism, and cardiovascular complications of diabetes. You will work with bioc...

The International Max Planck Research School for Epigenetics, Biophysics and Metabolism (IMPRS-EBM) offers fully funded doctoral positions for talented and motivated students passionate about basic research in the fields of epigenetics, biophysics, metabolism, cell biology, biochemistry, functional genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics. IMPRS-EBM is a collaborative program between the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the University of Freiburg, Germany, providing a vi...