PhD Positions
PhD Winter Selection 2027 – Open Projects
This is a list of currently 8 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.
Oliver Bruns
Research Focus: Functional Imaging in Surgical Oncology
Frank Buchholz
Research Focus: Functional Genomics & Genome Surgery
Federico Calegari
Open Project
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Neurobiology of olfactory function
Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich
Open Project
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Characterization of active Brownian motion of cell nuclei
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Physics, Biophysics
Shervin Safavi
Research Focus: Computational Machinery of Cognition
Shady Sayed
Research Focus: Genome Editing for Precision Oncology – Translational lung cancer research
Ben Wielockx
Open Project
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The role of hypoxia signaling during (clonal) hematopoiesis
Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biomedicine & Regenerative Biology – in vivo
PhD Summer Selection 2026
call is closed
interview week:
18–21 August 2026
PhD Winter Selection 2027
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
Contact
Once a year, for our Winter Selection, we open a joint call with our partner program
This means even more opportunities for you – with just one application!