Open PhD-Positions at the Schools

DASHH: New PhD position

Currently, DASHH is offering new doctorate projects:

Machine-Learned Force Fields for Lithium Manganese Oxide Cathode Materials

Artificial Intelligence for Enhancing Operation and Exploitation of X-ray Free-Electron Lasers (AIOPs4XFEL)

High-Performance Computing for Nonlinear Wave Propagation of High-Intensity X-Ray Pulses

Exploring Strategies for Data-Driven Motion Control of Multi-Modal Actuators in Synchrotron Experimentation

Proactive, Not Reactive: Anticipating and Mitigating Faults in XFEL Photocathode Lasers

Efficient Computational Methods for Nuclear Quantum Dynamics

Towards a Universal, Data-Agnostic Framework for Automatic Anomaly Detection in Complex Multivariate Time-Series

Deep Learning for X-Ray Phase Contrast Tomography

Numerically-Driven Model Predictive Control and Optimization for Adaptive Sono-Photonic Laser Beam Control

Shaping X-Rays: Bringing Wavefront Engineering into the Hard X-Ray Domain (ShapeX)

Intelligent Laser Beam Alignment: Training Robust Policies for Performance Optimization using Advanced Reinforcement Learning

AI-Driven, Structure-Based Discovery of Bacterial Second Messenger Signaling Targets

Phase Retrieval in Imaging and Speech Enhancement (PRISE)

You can apply for up to two PhD research topics of interest. To this end, you must submit two separate applications for both projects. During the online application process, you will need to answer the two following questions:

• Why are you interested in these PhD topics?
• What is your relevant experience in the research fields of the chosen PhD topics?

Overview of the selection process of the next Call for PhD Applications 2025:

• Call Opening: September 2025
• Submission of the application and the required documents via our online application portal until October 31st, 2025
• Pre-screening interview (video conference) of potentially interesting candidates by the involved project supervisors (November 2025)
• On-Site Admission Workshop (presentation of your Master thesis research to the Admission Committee with representatives from all DASHH partner institutions and individual interviews with the Supervision Panel) from February 2nd to 5th, 2026
• Decision on acceptance on Feburary 9th, 2026

MarDATA: New PhD Positions

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Please note that application deadlines may vary between individual calls, so we recommend checking the specific details/links for each opening.

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research (Kiel, Germany): 

Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Marine Data Science in the project “AI-derived thermodynamic parameters for aqueous modelling"

Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Marine Data Science in the project “Applying inverse reinforcement learning to understand what motivates individual fish movement”

Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Marine Data Science in the project “Physically informed pattern mining and deep learning to study fine scale ocean processes”

Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (Bremerhaven, Germany): 

PhD position for advancing data science methods for deciphering organic matter dynamics in the Arctic Ocean (f/m/d)

PhD Position in “Network-enhanced feature selection as an enabler of machine learning for eDNA-based assessments of deep-sea ecosystems” (m/f/d)

MUDS: New PhD Positions

Apply now for a PhD position at MUDS!

You can view the projects that are open for applications in this round after a successful review of your documents. Afterwards, a selection interview will take place and you will be "matched" with the project supervisors.

Apply now