Master’s Opportunities in Biotechnology in Germany

Thread highlighting several fully funded PhD and one fully funded Master's opportunity, mainly in Physics , Astronomy , Biology , Neuroscience , and International Relations / Political Science . PhD opportunities: DAAD Research Grants for Doctoral Programmes in Germany (full PhD funding at a German university or research institute, up to 4 years; deadlines vary by country), Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials (multiple fully funded PhD positions across Max Planck Institutes in Dresd...

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH is offering a Master Thesis in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, geoscience, and related fields focused on the synthesis and characterization of NiAl layered double hydroxides as precursors for Ni-based CO₂ methanation catalysts . The project is rooted in power-to-gas technologies and the Sabatier reaction , aiming to convert hydrogen and carbon dioxide into synthetic methane. The research goal is to understand the structure-activity relationship o...

Fully funded Master’s opportunity in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering through the AMASE Joint Master Programme with Erasmus Mundus Scholarships . The programme is associated with Universität des Saarlandes in Germany and partner universities in Europe, making it a strong option for students interested in Materials Science , Engineering , Physics , Chemistry , and related natural sciences. Eligibility: Applicants should hold a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Engineering, Physics...

Master Thesis Opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Institute of Climate and Energy Systems - Energy Systems Engineering (ICE-1), in Jülich, Germany . The project focuses on reinforcement learning , physics-informed neural networks , process control , and liquid-liquid separation . You will develop an offline RL controller for a liquid-liquid gravity settler, use existing PINN models as fast virtual training environments, design reward functions for throughput and separation quality, ha...

Fully funded Master's position at Helmholtz Munich in single-cell multi-omics for chronic lung diseases . The project is hosted by the Luecken Lab and Lehmann Lab at the Institute for Computational Biology and Lung Health . It is a strong fit for students interested in bioinformatics , computational biology , single-cell analysis , and data-driven biomedical research. Eligibility: applicants should be Master's students in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field, and should have...

PhD and Master's student positions are available at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, in the AIBA research group led by Iana Fedorova. The group works on bacteria-phage interactions in clinically relevant bacterial pathogens, with a strong focus on bacterial immunity, phage counter-defense, and engineering bacteriophages to kill bacterial hosts more effectively. This is a good fit for students interested in microbiology, phage therapy, and translational ...

Master Thesis Opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Jülich Systems Analysis (ICE-2), Energy System Transformation team. The thesis topic is Policy Instruments for the scale-up of Direct Air Capture (DAC) of Carbon Dioxide . The project focuses on negative emissions, carbon dioxide removal, climate policy, and the economics of DAC deployment. You will review existing, planned, and proposed policy instruments for DAC, then build a cash flow model ...

Master Thesis Opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology (IBG-1), in the Microscale Bioengineering research group. This thesis focuses on the development of a microfluidic system for single-cell analysis of photoautotrophic organisms . The project combines microfluidics , CAD design , chip fabrication, experimental testing, live-cell microscopy , and computer-assisted image analysis using deep learning methods. Students will contribute from t...

Master Thesis opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Institute of Bio- and Geosciences – Biotechnology (IBG-1), Modeling and Simulation Group. The project sits at the interface of computational systems biology , mathematics/statistics , and open research software development. The topic is Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques for Studying Large-scale Metabolic Models , with a focus on Bayesian inference for high-dimensional parameter estimation in biochemical networks and metabol...