International Scholarships

International Max Planck Research School “Ecological Interactions” Project 7: How do wood-feeding insects digest their diet? Supervisors: Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon, Dr. Axel Schmidt, Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth, MPI-CE Wood-feeding insects are sometimes known to use microbial symbionts present in their guts to help in digestion and nutrient mobilization. However, nothing is known about how such insects … [More Info]

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for the “Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques” in Jena, Germany, offers 15 PhD positions in molecular biology, ecology, entomology, microbiology, (bio)-chemistry, neuroethology or bioinformatics beginning in January 2009. The Research School is the first graduate school worldwide where modern chemical and molecular techniques are … [More Info]

Doctoral Program in Economics, Law and Psychology Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena (Germany) The International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World (Uncertainty-School) combines approaches from Economics, Law and Psychology to explain human decisions under uncertainty more effectively and to better design institutional responses. The Uncertainty-School is jointly hosted … [More Info]

IMPRS-ESM PhD Program: Call for 2008 now open The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers fellowships to outstanding students interested in Earth system research. Doctoral students of the IMPRS-ESM contribute to the development, application, and evaluation of a spectrum of Earth system models at different temporal … [More Info]

The department of Air Chemistry, Radical Measurements Group offers the following position Postdoctoral Research Position on Airborne Measurements of Atmospheric Nitric Dioxide by Laser-Induced Fluorescence For the assessment of the photochemical processing that occurs in an air mass, high-sensitivity measurements of reactive nitrogen species are a necessity. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) is already being used in … [More Info]

The research group “Development and Disease” (Prof. Dr. Stefan Mundlos) at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics / Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers a position for a PhD-Student (BAT IIa/2) The position is available from April 2007 until June 2009 (extension until December 2010 envisaged). Our research focuses on the … [More Info]

The International Max-Planck Research School for Molecular and Cellular Biology (IMPRS-MCB) of the Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology and the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Germany invites suitable candidates to apply for a position in our International PhD program 2007, which is going to start in October 2007 in Freiburg, Germany. We invite applications from all … [More Info]