PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Political Science in Germany

The Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg im Breisgau is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the project “Short-Term Mindsets and Crime: Testing and Validating the Theory.” The position sits within an interdisciplinary research program that aims to advance Short-Term Mindsets Theory , a framework that connects diverse predictors of criminal behavior through a temporal mechanism centered on immediate versus long-term outcom...

The ifo Institute – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the ifo Center for International Economics in Munich, Germany. The position is part of the institute’s junior faculty environment and is closely linked to the Department of Economics at LMU Munich. The successful researcher will join a team studying how globalization and international trade policy shape firms, workers, and economies. The advertised research agenda i...

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg im Breisgau is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a project on the theory of normativity and the criminal law, focusing on the dialogue between German Normentheorie and UK/Anglophone approaches to legal normativity. The position sits in the independent Research Group Criminal Law Theory , headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Philipp-Alexander Hirsch , within the Department of Criminal Law led by Prof. Dr. Tatjana Hörnle . The...

The Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the project Short-Term Mindsets and Crime: Testing and Validating the Theory . The position sits within the institute’s broader Short-Term Mindsets research program, which aims to explain crime through the temporal focus of individuals on immediate versus long-term outcomes. The successful candidate will join an international, interdisciplinary team in Fr...

The Kiel Institute for the World Economy invites applications for the Albert O. Hirschman PostDoc Program 2027 , a highly selective postdoctoral cohort based in Berlin or Kiel . The program is designed for exceptional young economists who want to pursue independent, high-impact research in international economics and contribute to a small, cohesive research community. Participants will work within the Kiel Institute’s research environment and broader policy network, with an emphasis on engaging ...

Europa-Kolleg Hamburg Early-Career Fellowship offers a funded three-month research opportunity at the Institute for European Integration, University of Hamburg, in Germany. Fellows will develop their own research projects in political economy, infrastructure, or geoeconomics . The proposed work must connect with European history or current European issues, creating scope for interdisciplinary research in European studies, economics, political science, international relations, and history. The fe...

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the independent Research Group “Criminal Law Theory.” The project, “Theory of Normativity and the Criminal Law – ‘Normentheorie’ between UK and Germany,” investigates what makes normativity in criminal law distinctive and how this affects understandings of wrongdoing, liability, responsibility, and punishment. The research bridges German doctrinal scholarship on Normentheorie with Anglop...

The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for research at the intersection of science diplomacy, peace and conflict studies, and Middle East studies . The project focuses particularly on the Palestinian territories and the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The position forms part of the BMFTR-funded project “Palestinian-German Science Bridge” , led by Forschungszentrum Jülich. The postdoctoral researcher will c...

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...