Max Planck Institute, Germany invites multiple online application for Postdoctoral Fellowships in various research areas. Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.
1. Postdoctoral Position in Sociogenomics and Child Development
The Max Planck Research Group Biosocial (Biology, Social Disparities, and Development) takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying the effects of social inequality on child and adolescent development at multiple biological and psychological levels led by principal investigator Dr. Laurel Raffington.
Biosocial research provides an important avenue of inquiry for understanding how the social environment intersects with biological processes to shape differential outcomes of education, health, and well-being across the lifespan. The successful candidate will work with novel omics methods (e.g., polygenic indices, DNA-methylation algorithms) to examine the effects of socioeconomic inequality on children’s physical and psychological health and well-being.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
2. Postdoctoral Position in Structural Changes of the Technosphere
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology was founded in the summer of 2022, it is a dynamically growing, highly international and interdisciplinary research institution. The research focuses on modeling and analyzing the interrelationships between natural and human-made systems, looking into the deep past and distant future to examine how humanity has driven the emergence of the Anthropocene – the geological period in which human activities began significantly impacting our planet’s climate and ecosystems – and how we can still positively influence its course.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
3. Postdoctoral Position in Cognitive Neuroscience
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, is offering a position for a Postdoc (m/f/d) in Cognitive Neuroscience. You will join a young, dynamic, and collaborative research group that is dedicated to groundbreaking developmental cognitive neuroscience with a focus on the origins of natural intelligence. More information about the lab can be found at skeidelab.
Application Deadline: January 16th 2023
4. Postdoctoral Position in Infrared spectroscopy
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking for highly-motivated candidates interested in the development and implementation of femtosecond-laser-driven field-resolved infrared spectroscopy for the study of living systems, such as human cells. In particular, the goal is to combine infrared fingerprinting with flow cytometry to pave the way of label-free high-throughput classification of individual cells for a wide range of biomedical applications.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
5. Postdoctoral Position in Fundamental Plasma Physicist
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The scientists are investigating the physical principles for a fusion power plant which – like the sun – generates energy from the fusion of light atomic nuclei. The research is carried out in seven experimental and theoretical projects aimed at developing nuclear fusion into an inexhaustible and safe source of energy for the future. The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching offers within the APEX (“A Positron-Electron eXperiment”) Group, based in the Tokamak Scenario Development Division, a position for a Postdoctoral Fundamental Plasma Physicist (m/f/d).
Application Deadline: 16.01.2023
6. Postdoctoral Position in Optical Nanoscopy
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The recently introduced MINFLUX (Balzarotti et al., Science 2017) and MINSTED (Weber et al., Nature Photonics 2021) concepts have unlocked the door to minimally invasive, low-light-level analysis of the structure and the dynamics of macromolecular assemblies (e.g. Gwosch et al., Nature Methods 2020) in living cells in 4D at the nanoscale. The unprecedented capabilities available in the department include experiments at 1-nm resolution.
The project aims at unraveling structure-function relationships and molecular mechanisms by developing appropriate sample preparation methodologies and imaging strategies suitable for data acquisition using the latest nanoscopy approaches such as MINFLUX. Sample design will be performed in close collaboration with the organic chemists and physicists from the Department of Optical Nanoscopy at the MPI for Medical Research.
Application Deadline: January 31, 2023
7. Postdoctoral Position in Low Energy Electron Holography
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking an enthusiastic person, who completes and advances our group. Successful applicants should hold a PhD in Physics, Chemistry or Nanoscience, be highly self-motivated and team oriented. Strong communication and organizational skills are expected. Fluent written and spoken communication in English is essential. Prior knowledge in high resolution electron microscopy, advanced mass spectrometry or biophysics would be advantageous.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2023
8. Postdoctoral Position in Heterogeneous catalysis
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC) in Mülheim an der Ruhr studies fundamental chemical processes for energy storage in chemical molecules. The Carbon2Chem project, which is funded by the federal ministry of education and research, focuses on the success of the “Energiewende”. Especially exhaust gases from steel mill plants are planned to be used as synthesis gas for chemical processes. A close collaboration with numerous partners from chemical industry, steel industry, energy partners as well as academic partners will be mandatory.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2023
9. Postdoctoral Position in Gas analysis
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Carbon2Chem project, which is funded by the federal ministry of education and research, focuses on the success of the “Energiewende”. Especially exhaust gases from steel mill plants are planned to be used as synthesis gas for chemical processes. A close collaboration with numerous partners from chemical industry, steel industry, energy partners as well as academic partners will be mandatory.
Application Deadline: January 15, 2023
10. Postdoctoral Position in Observational Cosmology
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
MPE invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the field of observational cosmology. We are searching for candidates with experience in galaxy clustering and/or numerical simulations of structure formation. The successful candidate will work with Dr Ariel Sanchez on the cosmological interpretation of data from galaxy redshift surveys.
Cosmological research at MPE covers both theory and observations and is focused on understanding the nature of dark energy, dark matter, massive neutrinos and inflation. At MPE, the successful applicant will join the consortia of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) survey, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and the ESA space mission Euclid.
Application Deadline: January 20, 2023
11. Postdoctoral Position in Constructing Urban Futures in Asia
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Growing prosperity and ongoing rural-urban migration have been feeding an unprecedented building boom across the cities of East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, sometimes coupled with a renewed appreciation of cultural heritage. Not only is the boom transforming political economies; it will also create the signature metropolises of our century and challenge Euroamerican hegemony over notions of the urban.
The new focus group will concentrate on the professionals in planning, architecture, construction and conservation, as the people most centrally placed to shape urban futures in Asia, and will investigate their ideals, concerns, strategies and compromises when dealing with the multiple political and economic actors involved in construction and with general challenges such as climate change. Researchers are expected to conduct in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and to contribute to theoretical and methodological innovation in anthropology, urban studies and adjacent fields.
Application Deadline: 15 January 2023
12. Postdoctoral Position in Glycomics and Glycoproteomics
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
Glycosylation is an important modification of proteins and is involved in the regulation of the biological activity and stability of many proteins. Notably, the glycosylation of many eukaryotic proteins appears to be highly regulated and minor structural changes of the glycan portions may lead to major changes in function. Therefore, protein glycosylation analysis is becoming increasingly important in medical/clinical, biopharmaceutical, as well as biotechnological research.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
13. Postdoctoral Position in Climate Displacement and Diversification
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Department of Sociocultural Diversity is seeking to appoint two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (m/f/d). These positions will be full-time for two years with a starting date of 1 June 2023. Successful applicants will work as core fieldworkers undertaking qualitative/ethnographic research as part of a team relating to the project Climate Displacement and Diversification: Changing Patterns of Migration and Peri-urban Settlement.
Application Deadline: 3 February 2023
14. Postdoctoral Position in Astrophotonics
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The position is offered within the DFG-funded collaborative NAIR project (“novel astronomical instrumentation through photonic reformatting”), a collaboration between the MPIA, University of Cologne and the Leibniz-Institut-for-Astrophysics-Potsdam. The successful candidate will lead the astrophotonics technology program at MPIA, with the concrete goal of producing a fiber link to be tested at the MagAO-X adaptive optics system in Chile. This fiber link will build on the prior work of the group and is envisaged as a pathfinder for the integral field unit of the Planetary Camera System at the Extremely Large Telescope.
Application Deadline: 27th January 2023
15. Postdoctoral Position in Axion Haloscopes
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a research institute focusing on particle and astroparticle physics from both an experimental and a theoretical perspective. Within the framework of the ERC starting grant 802836 “AxScale” and the Lise Meitner Group “In search of a new, light physics” we invite applications for a Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) for the work on axion haloscopes at RADES and the future babyIAXO magnet.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2023
16. Postdoctoral Position in Population Health
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Center is currently seeking to appoint one or more full-time post-doctoral researchers to contribute to its research theme on methodological innovation. We welcome applications from researchers with a PhD in demography, statistics, epidemiology, sociology, economics, computer science, or a similar field. The successful candidate will work on one or several of the research strands within the Center’s research theme on methods: longitudinal data analysis, causal inference, and machine learning approaches.
Application Deadline: January 10 2023
17. Postdoctoral Position in Population health
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
We are seeking creative, self-driven, collaborative scholars with strong communication skills. Your PhD can be in any area that provided you with the necessary skills for high-quality demographic research; recent recruits have had PhDs in Demography, Sociology, Economics, Epidemiology, Statistics and Anthropology. Strong quantitative analysis skills are expected. Fit with the research agenda of the Population Health, Labor Demography, or Fertility teams is one criterion that will be evaluated.
Application Deadline: January 10, 2023
18. Postdoctoral Position in Scientific exploitation of the Euclid Mission
Summary of Postdoctoral Fellowship:
The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching is world leading in the field of ground- and space-based experimental astronomy with its working areas Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, High Energy Astronomy, Optical Astronomy and Astrochemistry. It develops, builds and tests scientific instruments intended for operation on large telescopes (VLT, LBT, ELT) and for installation on satellites (XMM-Newton, Herschel, eROSITA, Athena).
Application Deadline: January 31, 2023
