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.

Application deadline is 1 February 2020 at noon (11:59 AM CET).

Agroecology:

• Potato Domestication
• Carbon and nitrogen cycling in legume rhizospheres – elucidating the importance of small scale processes for soil fertility and carbon storage
• LCA on climate impacts of vegetable production
• System modelling of circular agriculture towards zero emissions
• Soil impact evaluation from using agricultural robots for complex arable operations
• Agronomic, operational and sustainability performance of agricultural robots

Animal Science:

• Assessment of broiler welfare
• ANIMAL CONTACT – an interdisciplinary project focusing on measuring behavioural, physiological and psychometric responses to contact with dogs
• Working with humans to target the challenges of antimicrobial resistance and reduce the usage of antimicrobials in pig and cattle production
• Effect of addition of Seaweed and Isolated Metabolites as Strategies to Reduce Enteric Methane from Dairy Cows
• Feeding Strategies to Reducing Enteric Methane from Dairy Cows – Effect of feed additives
• Physical, Physiological, and Microbial Phenotype of the Climate-efficient Dairy cow

Bioscience:

• Exploring controls on seasonal timing of fish early life stages and the implications for fisheries production and climate change
• Underlying physiological mechanisms of interactions between effects of exposure to contaminants and natural stressors
• Linking individual and population level responses to combined effects of contaminants and natural stressors
• Late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions – a macroecological assessment of patterns and drivers
• Megafauna dynamics in African savanna areas – impacts of land-use and climate change, and effects on vegetation dynamics

Chemistry:

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

Computer Science:

• Computational Complexity of Equilibria and Fixed Points
• PhD students for Center for Basic Research in Program Verification
• Program Analysis and Testing
• Programming language design, analysis and verification
• Data Summarization, Representation, Search, and Analysis of (Medical) Knowledge Graphs
• Cryptography and Blockchains (COBRA and CBM)
• Visualization of Knowledge Graphs for Validation, Modification, and Optimization
• Algorithms supporting big data analysis
• Machine learning in a microservice based environment for cooperative agile development with high level quality control
• Augmented and Virtual Reality for Industrial Applications  

Engineering:

• Edge Intelligence for Time Critical IoT
• PhD Position in Photobiocatalytic Synthesis of Pharmaceutical Intermediates (PHOTOX-f)
• Profiling the degradation and toxicity of short-chain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
• Electrospun electroactive scaffolds for neural and cardiac tissue engineering
• Exploring natural and artificial biofilms of acetogenic bacteria to improve microbial electrosynthesis rates
• Programmable Synthesis of Designer Lipids and Phospholipids - Linking chemistry & physics with function and manufacture
• Mitigation of climate footprint and environmental impact of welfare pens for sows and piglets
• Biological Power-to-gas: Development of methanation technology for the production of electro-fuels from electricity and CO₂
• Nanobody-based inhibitors of allergen-mediated anaphylaxis

Environmental Sciences:

• Environmental Economics and Water Quality Management

Food Science:

• REWARD-EAT: The role of psychological stressors on food reward and eating behaviour
• COMCROP - Composting for recycling of nutrients and carbon to soil and vegetable crops by new technology

Geoscience:

• HYDROsim – fast hydrological simulation utilizing machine learning and stochastic modelling
• Reconstructing the glacial history of NE Siberia based on cosmogenic nuclides
• Experimental petrology of mantle pyroxenite
• Formation and evolution of ancient continental lithosphere

Mathematics:

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

Molecular Biology and Genetics:

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

Nanoscience:

• Green surfactants in detergent formulation: Interactions and synergies between surfactants and enzymes
• Multifunctional biologics for enhanced tumor imaging, cell tracking and treatment

Physics and Astronomy:

• Matter-light quantum interfaces with neutral atoms