PhD opportunities in mathematics in germany

PhD opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Novelty Assessment of Science and Patents with LLMs . This opening focuses on Large Language Models , AI , scientific literature , patents , metascience , and innovation research . The project aims to develop cutting-edge methods to assess the novelty and quality of scientific publications and patents, building on award-winning work from the Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge. The position is based in Jülich, Germany , with remote work possibl...

PhD opportunity in Space Microbiology at the University of Bremen The University of Bremen’s Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) is offering a full-time, fixed-term Research Associate / Doctoral Researcher / PhD Candidate position in the field of Space Microbiology. The successful candidate will join the ERC-funded MarCyano project, which investigates how cyanobacteria could be used to support sustainable human exploration of Mars. The project focuses on understanding cyan...

Saarland University is advertising several fully funded PhD and postdoctoral positions in the newly established Chair of Data-Driven Simulation and Analysis in Materials Science, led by Prof. Dr. Roland Aydin and jointly affiliated with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). The project theme is Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Physical Systems , combining modern AI with scientific computing, engineering, and materials research. The research group works on LLMs and au...

Statistisches Beratungslabor (StaBLab) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität is hiring for a PhD/Postdoc position focused on Bayesian hierarchical modeling and methods for accounting for complex uncertainty structures . The successful candidate will support the lab’s work in statistical consulting and teaching . This is a research-oriented opportunity in applied statistics with a strong modeling component, suitable for candidates interested in Bayesian methods, uncertainty quantification, and practi...

PharMetrX is advertising PhD research fellowships in Pharmacometrics and Computational Disease Modelling at Universität Potsdam and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. This interdisciplinary doctoral opportunity focuses on bridging Pharmacy and Mathematics to better understand the drug-patient-disease interaction. The research theme includes analysing data on drug concentration, effect, and disease profiles from pre-/clinical trials and therapeutic care, and developing and applying mathematical...

WüNLP at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg is hiring for three PhD/postdoc positions across different projects and research constellations. The advertised research topics are: post-training of Mixture-of-Experts large language models , sample-efficient language model adaptation for low-resource domains , and vision-language-action (VLA) models for robotic manipulation . These positions are a strong fit for candidates interested in Natural Language Processing , Large Language Models ,...

Up to 3 PhD positions are open in the interdisciplinary EXPRESSO project, part of the Tübingen Excellence Cluster Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science at the University of Tübingen. The project focuses on quantum physics and machine learning , with research topics including probabilistic simulation and inference for quantum gases, simulation-guided model discovery via adaptive amortized inference, and representation learning for optimization in exponential search spaces. Supervision is...

Freie Universität Berlin is advertising a PhD position in the research group of Bettina G. Keller , Professor for Theoretical Chemistry. The project is centered on theoretical chemistry , computational chemistry , molecular dynamics , rare events , molecular kinetics , statistical mechanics , scientific computing , and machine learning . The position is a 4-year research assistant (praedoc) role at 65% TV-L E13 , offering a salaried employment contract in an international and collaborative resea...

Ulm University in Germany is advertising 3 fully funded PhD scholarships in the Egocentric Vision and Embodied AI Lab under Prof. Dr. Xi Wang . The positions focus on computer vision , embodied AI , deep learning , world models , dynamic 4D reconstruction , multi-agent collaboration , AI reasoning , dexterous manipulation , and robotics . The scholarship is described as 100% fully funded with compensation according to the German TV-L E13 salary scale . The PhD duration is 3 to 5 years . Two posi...