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PhD Spring Selection 2025 – Open Projects

This is a list of currently 13 group leaders who are intending to recruit in the PhD Spring 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 Marius Ader

© CRTD

Portrait Mareike Albert

© CRTD

Mareike Albert

Open Project
  • Epigenetic regulation of human cortical development
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology

Portrait Federico Calegari

© TUD/Magdalena Gonciarz

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 Christian Dahmann

© Kirsten Lassig

Christian Dahmann

Open Project
  • From genes to shape: Molecular control of mechanical forces during tissue morphogenesis
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics
    → Detailed information as PDF

Portrait Stefan Diez

© TUD CMCB, Magdalena Gonciarz

Stefan Diez

Open Projects
  • Oscillatory Behaviour of Molecular Motors in Biological and Engineered Systems
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell Biology, Biophysics, Bioengineering

  • Generation of Helical Movement and Torque by Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Cell Biology, Biophysics, Bioengineering

Portrait Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

© BIOTEC

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Open Project
  • Regulation of epithelial cell shape through distinct surface tensions
    Preferred Course of Study/Expertise of Candidate: Study/Expertise of Candidat: Biophysics, Physics, Biology, Biotechnology

Portrait Felix Müller-Planitz

© Jan Greune

PhD Spring Selection 2025

submit by
5 November 2024 23:45 CET (GMT+1)

video interviews with admission committee:
6–10 January 2025
interview week:
4–7 March 2025

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