PhD Opportunities in Archaeology in Germany

This PhD project is part of the University of Cologne’s interdisciplinary initiative “The Rhine Floodplain – a Biogeochemically Coupled System under Stress” , which examines how altered hydrology reshapes floodplain sediment dynamics, biodiversity, food webs, microbial processes, and greenhouse gas emissions. The advertised doctorate focuses on soil microbial nutrient stoichiometry and soil-atmosphere exchange in river floodplains. The successful candidate will investigate how nutrient constrain...

The University of Cologne’s Institute of Geography is offering an interdisciplinary PhD project on the Rhine floodplain as a biogeochemically coupled system under stress. The project examines how altered hydrology shapes floodplain sediment dynamics and the wider ecosystem response, linking physical and geochemical processes with biodiversity, food webs, microbial activity, and greenhouse gas emissions. The doctoral researcher will contribute to a collaborative project with other PhD students an...

Hamburg University of Technology is recruiting a fully funded PhD researcher at the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics to investigate groundwater–land–climate interactions. The doctoral project will combine artificial intelligence, satellite Earth observation, global datasets, and environmental modeling. The research will examine these interconnected environmental processes across regional to global scales, with a strong emphasis on computational analysis and Earth-system understanding. The posit...

The Understanding Written Artefacts doctoral programme is offered at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, in cooperation with DESY and Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg). It examines handwriting and other written artefacts as a key cultural technique from a global perspective, bringing together expertise from the humanities, the natural sciences, and computer science. Doctoral researchers work in an interdisciplinary environment that connects ...

The Graduate School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS) at the University of Hamburg offers a structured PhD programme focused on basic research into climate system interactions and climate effects. The programme is designed to support doctoral researchers in building strong disciplinary expertise while also developing interdisciplinary thinking and international networking. Doctoral researchers follow a curriculum with compulsory introduction courses in climate system scienc...

The Department of Chinese Studies in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen is seeking a pre-doctoral researcher to undertake a PhD research project in Chinese Studies/Sinology. The position offers an opportunity to develop a research profile focused on China or Greater China, particularly across historical and interdisciplinary approaches. The doctoral research may engage with areas such as social and cultural history, environmental history, the history of med...

The Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World at the University of Regensburg offers a pre-doctoral research position for an early-career researcher preparing a doctoral project in the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, business and economics, or law. The ScienceCampus is a joint platform of the University of Regensburg and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. It provides an interdisciplinary research environment focused on Europe, North a...

The University of Marburg’s Animal Ecology research group, led by Prof. Anne Mupepele, is offering a doctoral researcher position within the BeeConn project, Bee Genetic Connectivity Across Landscapes: Insect Translocation and Population Establishment for Ecological Restoration . The project is conducted in collaboration with Dr. Felix Fornoff at the University of Freiburg and partners in Poland and Sweden. The PhD research will investigate how translocation methods for ground-nesting wild bees ...

The University of Augsburg is recruiting five doctoral researchers for the DFG-funded research group “Thinking with Wetlands. Histories from the Quaking Zone, 1630–1997” . The group investigates wetlands—including swamps, bogs, peatlands, coastal marshes, and riparian forests—as historically dynamic spaces shaped by competing environmental, social, political, and cultural practices. Rather than presenting wetland loss as a simple transition from nature to culture, the research group focuses on a...