Below you can find a list of vacant PhD project positions under the current call. The list is regularly updated and will be complete approx. two weeks before application deadline.

NS/TS: By 1 June 2020, the Graduate School of Science and Technology will be split into two new graduate schools following the split of the faculty. See below, to find out whether enrolment will be at Graduate School of Natural Sciences (NS) or Graduate School of Technical Sciences (TS).

Application deadline is 1 May 2020 at noon (11:59 AM CEST).

 

Agroecology (TS):

• Seed quality and moisture relations
• Designing pre-treatment and anaerobic digestion of biowastes for higher crop nutrient utilisation

Animal Science (TS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Biology (NS):

• Genomic and ecophysiological diversity of cable bacteria
• Electron conduction in cable bacteria
• Assessing the role of myoglobin in sulfide signaling by means of genetically modified zebrafish

Bioscience (TS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Chemistry (NS):

• Modelling the Formation and Growth of Atmospheric Molecular Clusters using Quantum Chemical and Machine Learning Methods
• Dissecting the mode-of-action of new immunomodulatory and cytotoxic natural products
  
  

Computer Science (NS):

• Programming language design, analysis and verification
• Program Analysis and Testing
• PhD students for Center for Basic Research in Program Verification
• Augmented and Virtual Reality for Industrial Applications
• Algorithms supporting big data analysis

Engineering (TS):

• Engineering Carbonaceous phOto-REgenerable Materials (CORE-M) for photodegradation of micropollutants
• Adjustable Autonomy and Digital Twins
• Medium and reaction engineering of enzymatic cascade for furan-dicarboxylic acid synthesis
• Profiling the degradation and toxicity of short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
• Nanobody-based inhibitors of  allergen-mediated anaphylaxis
• Intelligent Digital Twins for Manufacturing Equipment and Processes
• Light-weight Deep Learning for Visual Analysis

Environmental Sciences (TS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Food Science (TS):

• Modifications of supramolecular structure of plant proteins for enhanced functionality as food ingredients
• Mastering structure design in model foods containing dairy proteins for flexitarian diets
• Understanding the molecular and supramolecular structure of plant polysaccharide networks for the design of new biodegradable packaging materials
• Sustainable food packaging: Impact of graphene on tuning PLA based nanocomposite properties

Geoscience (NS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Mathematics (NS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Molecular Biology and Genetics (NS):

• Dissecting the mode-of-action of new immunomodulatory and cytotoxic natural products - please note that the PhD student for this project will be enrolled in the Chemistry programme

Nanoscience (NS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.

Physics and Astronomy (NS):

• 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations and asteroseismology

Quantitative Genetics and Genomics (TS):

• No specific projects at the moment, please have a look later or apply via the GSST open call.