PhD Opportunities in Education in Germany

At the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Freiburg, two part-time research assistant positions are available in French and Italian literary and cultural studies. The roles are anchored in a doctoral research environment and are linked to the professorship of Prof. Dr. Manuel Mühlbacher. The successful candidates will work toward a dissertation in French and/or Italian literary and cultural studies while also contributing to the academic life of the chair and seminar. Alongside their own do...

The Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology at the University of Freiburg is offering a PhD opportunity in ecology focused on independent, student-designed research. The position is open to candidates interested in fundamental or applied questions in pollination ecology, wild pollinator conservation, and plant-insect interactions. The chair welcomes original project ideas rather than a predefined thesis topic. Suggested directions include pollination ecology in forest ecosystems, the ...

The yDiv Graduate School & Postdoc Programme is based at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and is linked to Friedrich Schiller University Jena, with cooperation across Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Leipzig University. It brings together a large international research community of more than 300 researchers from around 30 nations. The programme is designed for doctoral researchers working in integrative biodiversity research and offer...

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 Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena offers a PhD position within the Carl Zeiss Stiftung Independent Research Group on High-End Climate Risks (CZS-HECR) . The group studies worst-case climate outcomes, from unprecedented and compounding extremes to their societal impacts, combining climate physics, Earth system analyses, targeted climate model experiments, advanced statistics, and machine-learning-based approaches to produce usable climate risk estimates for sectors such as healt...

The Research School “Foundations of AI” is a doctoral programme offered by the Hasso Plattner Institute in cooperation with the Faculty of Digital Engineering, a faculty jointly founded by HPI and the University of Potsdam. It is based in Potsdam and embedded in an environment focused on computer science and digital technologies. The programme is centred on foundational artificial intelligence research. Doctoral researchers work on advancing AI methods, with an emphasis on energy-efficient and p...

The Regensburg International Graduate School of Life Sciences (RIGeL) at the University of Regensburg offers a structured doctoral programme for young scientists in the life sciences. The school brings together research opportunities across biomedicine , cellular biochemistry and biophysics , molecular ecology and evolution , and neurobiology , giving doctoral researchers access to a broad range of topics from molecular mechanisms to complex biological systems. RIGeL is embedded in the biologica...

The Graduate School of Economics, Finance, and Management (GSEFM) offers a doctoral programme at Goethe University Frankfurt, in cooperation with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Technische Universität Darmstadt. The programme is built around four tracks: accounting, economics, finance, and marketing. Students receive a two-year cycle of doctoral-level coursework designed to provide a rigorous methodological foundation in the core area of their track, followed by research-frontier courses...

The Communication and Collective Movement Group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is seeking a PhD student to join an interdisciplinary project on communication and coordination in animal groups . The research sits at the intersection of animal movement, vocal communication, collective behavior, and quantitative ecology, with a strong focus on understanding how individual decisions scale up to group-level patterns in wild social animals. The student will work with rich existing data...