PhD Opportunities in Microbiology

PhD position in the OptiNuss research project at the Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Institute for Biological Control, in Germany. OptiNuss investigates sustainable peanut cultivation under German conditions. The project includes comprehensive field trials at different locations in southern Germany, comparing and optimising cultivation methods for peanut production. At JKI, the PhD researcher will contribute to the phytopathological, microbiological and biodiversity-related components of the project...

Baylor University’s Department of Biology is recruiting 2–3 funded PhD students for a Fall 2027 start. The research focuses on microbiomes and the ways microbial communities influence health, organisms, and environments. The group uses long-read metagenomics, microbial genomics, and bioinformatics to study diverse biological systems. Projects may address the relationship between microbiomes and childhood undernutrition, fish mucosal microbial ecology, and microbial communities in the built envir...

This PhD Research Fellow position in marine geomicrobiology is based at the Department of Earth Science , University of Bergen , and is linked to the Centre for Deep Sea Research and the Geochemistry and Geobiology research group. The project addresses how rapid Arctic Ocean change affects the carbon flux from surface waters to the seafloor, and how that shift influences the microorganisms living in Arctic sediments. The successful candidate will investigate the short- and long-term effects of v...

This PhD project is part of NTNU’s interdisciplinary research effort on preparedness and response to antimicrobial resistance, described as “the silent pandemic.” The advertised PhD candidate will join one of four closely coordinated projects and work within a collaborative environment that links molecular and clinical research with broader interdisciplinary expertise. The project focuses on discovering and characterizing new antimicrobial peptides derived from human plasma. These peptides may a...

This PhD position is part of the NTNU interdisciplinary research project “Preparedness and Response to AMR, the silent pandemic” , linking clinical and molecular medicine with social science perspectives across several closely coordinated doctoral projects. The successful candidate will work at the Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine (IKOM) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, within a broad, international research environment. The project focuses on rapi...

This PhD opening is based in the Department of Biotechnology and Food Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, within the Microbial Biotechnology research division. The project is part of a larger NTNU-funded research effort on preparedness and response to antimicrobial resistance. It is embedded in the Bruheim research group, which works on deep phenotyping of prokaryotic and eukaryotic model systems using advanced cultivation technology and mass spectromet...

This PhD position is part of NTNU’s interdisciplinary research project “Preparedness and Response to AMR, the silent pandemic” , where closely coordinated doctoral projects work together across molecular medicine, biotechnology, and social science. The advertised project focuses on new antimicrobial peptides derived from human plasma and their potential as single agents or in combination with antibiotics against antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. The doctoral candidate will help identify and char...

DEWIN – Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions is an international doctoral programme at Hannover Medical School, based in Hannover and run in cooperation with Twincore – Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. The programme is centered on infection biology and asks doctoral researchers to investigate the complex interactions between host and pathogen. Students work o...

The University of Vienna is offering a fully funded PhD position in analyzing polymer degradation by soil enzymes within the MSCA Doctoral Network AGRIPOLYS. The doctoral researcher will join the EDGE group at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) in Vienna, Austria. The project applies environmental analytical chemistry and high-resolution mass spectrometry to investigate enzymatic degradation pathways of promising polymer classes in agricultural soils. The rese...