PhD Opportunities in Media Studies in Germany

The International PhD Programme (IPP) in Literary and Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen is a structured, research-oriented doctoral programme designed for students working in literary and cultural studies. It brings together four main research areas: literary and cultural theory, genre theory, literary and cultural historiography, and comparative and interdisciplinary issues. The programme is embedded in a broad humanities environment at Justus Liebig University Giessen, with ...

The International Doctoral Programme in Computational Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary PhD programme hosted by the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin (BCCN Berlin) in Berlin. It is run in cooperation with Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin , bringing together a broad scientific environment for doctoral research in the brain sciences. The programme focuses on computational neuroscience as a field that connec...

Graduate School of Excellence Advanced Manufacturing Engineering in Stuttgart (GSaME) at the University of Stuttgart is a doctoral programme focused on advanced manufacturing engineering for next-generation factories. The programme brings together research and qualification in a central scientific institution with the right to award doctorates. Doctoral researchers are integrated into an interdisciplinary environment spanning university institutes and cooperation partners in industry and science...

The Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim offers a structured doctoral environment for highly qualified students who want to pursue research in Business, Economics, or the Social Sciences . The programme is designed around interdisciplinary training that connects economic and social science perspectives and supports students in building a strong foundation for a research career. Doctoral candidates study in English and follow a modern course program...

Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin offers a structured PhD programme focused on East Asia, with research centred on China, Japan, and Korea. The programme is designed for researchers working across area studies, social sciences, history, anthropology, business and economics, or legal studies. It combines a three-year course phase with a one-year writing phase, giving doctoral researchers a four-year framework for developing and presenting their work. GEAS pr...

Graduate School Language & Literature Munich at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is a structured doctoral environment for research in linguistics, literature, language education, and cultural studies/cultural history. The programme is organized into four classes: Language , Literature , Language Education , and Culture and History . Each class supports doctoral projects in its own area while contributing to a wider interdisciplinary setting within the Faculty of Languages and Literatures. ...

GradAB is a joint interdisciplinary doctoral programme in labour market research run by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the School of Business, Economics and Society at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The programme is designed for outstanding early-career researchers interested in labour market topics and provides access to the IAB’s unique data resources on employment and social security. These resources support theoretically grounded and empirically driven re...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is advertising a doctoral candidate/scientific researcher position in the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” (FOR 5901). The project focuses on conspiracy beliefs and is situated within the psychology of communication and media use. The position is associated with Professor Tobias Rothmund and offers doctoral research within a German Research Foundation-funded research unit. The work will examine conspiracy beliefs in the context of communication and media use, c...

PhD position in Secure Cloud Systems at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, within the Operating Systems Group led by Prof. Redha Gouicem. The SDCOS project investigates scalable and confidential unikernels, with a focus on reconciling security and performance in operating-system and hypervisor design. The doctoral researcher will work on advanced computer systems for secure cloud environments, exploring how unikernel architectures and virtualization mechanisms can provide confidentiality while mai...