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PhD Winter Selection 2027 – Open Projects

This is a list of currently 12 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Winter Selection 2027 and potential projects they’re offering.

Please note: this list will be constantly updated. Therefore, in your application you are welcome to include other groups of your interest.

Mareike Albert

Open Projects

Characterisation of human-specific gene regulatory elements in morphoregulatory genes
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology
→ Detailed information as PDF

The project is part of the METAMORPH Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) doctoral network
Gene regulatory mechanisms of metabolic genes in cortical development and evolution
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, neurobiology
→ Detailed information as PDF

The project is part of the METAMORPH Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) doctoral network

Jan Brugués

Research Focus: Self-Organization of Living Matter

Oliver Bruns

Open Projects

Biomedical imaging beyond the visible
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biochemistry, chemistry, biology, biomedicine, bioengineering, medicine, general STEM background
→ Detailed information as PDF
Building the microscopes of the future
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Bioengineering, physics, general STEM background
→ Detailed information as PDF

Frank Buchholz

Research Focus: Functional Genomics & Genome Surgery

Federico Calegari

Open Project

Neurobiology of olfactory function

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Open Project

Characterization of active Brownian motion of cell nuclei
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Biophysics

Benjamin Friedrich

Research Focus: Biological Algorithms: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Cells and Tissues

Anthony Gavalas

Research Focus: Stem Cells in Pancreas Development and Disease

Shervin Safavi

Research Focus: Computational Machinery of Cognition

Shady Sayed

Research Focus: Genome Editing for Precision Oncology – Translational lung cancer research

Mirko Schmidt

Open Project

Juvenile blood vessels in the skull: implications for hematopoiesis in the cranial bone marrow
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, molecular biology, cell biology, biochemistry, microscopy, angiogenesis, neuroscience
→ Detailed information as PDF

Ben Wielockx

Open Project

The role of hypoxia signaling during (clonal) hematopoiesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biomedicine & Regenerative Biology – in vivo

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PhD Winter Selection 2027

Apply online now!

submit by
15 October 2026 15:00 CEST (GMT+2)

video interviews with admission committee:
30 Nov – 4 Dec 2026
interview week:
2–5 February 2027

Once a year, for our Winter Selection, we open a joint call with our partner program

IMPRS Bio-MAP

This means even more opportunities for you – with just one application!

Contact

digs-ils[at]tu-dresden[.]de