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PhD Summer Selection 2025 – Open Projects

This is a list of currently 9 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Summer Selection 2025 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.

Portrait Mareike Albert

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Mareike Albert

Open Projects
  • Effects of nutritional stimuli on the epigenetic regulation of human cortical development
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology

  • Cis-regulatory elements in neocortex evolution
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology

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Henrik Bringmann

Open Project
Portrait Federico Calegari

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Federico Calegari

Open Project
  • Decoding the computational role of adult neurogenesis in hippocampus
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Neuroscience, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science
    → Detailed information as PDF

Portrait Benjamin Friedrich

Benjamin Friedrich

Open Project
  • Modeling sarcomere self-assembly
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Theoretical Biological Physics

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Shervin Safavi

Open Project
  • Computational modeling of internal cognitive process
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Computational neuroscience, neuroscience, physics, mathematics, statistics, machine learning, psychology, and other related fields
    → Detailed information as PDF

Portrait Jared Sterneckert

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Jared Sterneckert

Open Projects
  • Identifying the molecular mechanism of motor axonal degeneration in ALS
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Mammalian cell culture experience is required. Experience with iPS cells would be beneficial
    → Detailed information as PDF

  • RNA-editing Gene Therapy as a Treatment for FUS-ALS
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Mammalian cell culture experience is required. Experience with either iPS cells or mouse handling would be beneficial. r FUS-ALS
    → Detailed information as PDF

Portrait Axel Voigt

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PhD Summer Selection 2025

submit by
6 May 2025 23:45 CEST (GMT+2)

video interviews with admission committee:
16–20 June 2025
interview week:
19–22 August 2025

PhD Winter Selection 2026

call opens 18 August 2025
call closes 28 October 2025

video interviews with admission committee:
8–12 December 2025
interview week:
3 – 6 February 2026

For additional opportunities you might want to consider our partner program
IMPRS-CellDevoSys