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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.

Portrait Jan Brugués

Jan Brugués

Research Focus: Self-Organization of Living Matter
Portrait Oliver Bruns

Oliver Bruns

Research Focus: Functional Imaging in Surgical Oncology
Portrait Frank Buchholz

© CRTD

Frank Buchholz

Research Focus: Functional Genomics & Genome Surgery
Portrait Federico Calegari

© TUD/Magdalena Gonciarz

Federico Calegari

Open Project
  • Neurobiology of olfactory function

Portrait Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

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

Portrait Shervin Safavi

Shervin Safavi

Research Focus: Computational Machinery of Cognition
Portrait Shady Sayed

Shady Sayed

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

Ben Wielockx

Open Project
  • 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

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!