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Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany invites application for vacant Postdoctoral and Academic Positions, UFZ covers both basic research and applied research.
Closing date for applications: • Location: LeipzigLeading Scientist (f/m/x) in Modelling Research
The UFZ is seeking an excellent leader to the 6-year project “Cost-optimal and Sustainable Bioeconomy and Resource Systems”. The position offers a tenure-track perspective.
Closing date for applications: • Location: HalleScientific Project Coordinator (f/m/x) Science-Stakeholder Interface – Helmholtz Solution Lab SOLVE
Closing date for applications: • Location: LeipzigScientific Project Coordinator (f/m/x) Environmental Data and AI Platform (DataMon)
Coordinate the development of DataMon, UFZ’s integrated, AI-ready data and monitor platform. You will connect science, IT and implementation teams, maintain the overall roadmap, and ensure that decisions, dependencies and risks are actively managed.
Closing date for applications: • Location: LeipzigScientist (f/m/x) climate adaptation funding and case studies in Ukraine
Closing date for applications: • Location: MagdeburgLeading Scientist (f/m/x) in Water Research
The UFZ is seeking an excellent leader to the 6-year project “AquaResponse — Experimental Analysis of Aquatic Ecosystem Responses to Present and Future Environmental Change”. The position offers a tenure-track perspective.
Closing date for applications: • Location: HalleScientist (f/m/x) Curation of annotated X-ray CT images for deep-learning-based segmentation of soil microstructure
Closing date for applications: • Location: MagdeburgPostdoctoral Researcher (f/m/x) Food Web Ecology
Postdoctoral position in freshwater food-web ecology investigating how biodiversity, trophic structure, and consumer energy flows relate to whole-stream ecosystem functioning. The project combines quantitative food-web analysis, secondary production, and ecosystem metabolism across diverse stream and river datasets.
Closing date for applications: • Location: HalleLeading Scientist (f/m/x) in Biodiversity Research
The UFZ is seeking an excellent leader to the 6-year project “Biodiversity Research for Plant Communities and Ecosystem Functions Resilient to Global Change”. The position offers a tenure-track perspective.
Closing date for applications: • Location: MagdeburgScientist (f/m/x) Functioning of environmental biofilms
We are seeking a person to conduct process research on environmental biofilms (particularly biofilms in running waters) and to supervise the confocal laser scanning microscopy for biofilm research at the UFZ site in Magdeburg.
Closing date for applications: • Location: –Bachelor / Master Thesis Environmental Chemicals and Metabolic Health: Investigating Mechanisms in Adipose and Placental Models
Join our team to explore the obesogenic potential of environmental chemicals and investigate how they may already increase the risk of childhood overweight during pregnancy. This project builds on a pilot study in which potential obesogenic chemical candidates were identified through the analysis of childhood cohorts.
Closing date for applications: • Location: –Master Thesis in Toxicology (f/m/x)
The Mechanistic Toxicology Group is looking for a motivated master’s student who will apply a novel high-content workflow for fluorescence imaging using transgenic zebrafish larvae at the intersection of chemical exposure and neurodegenerative processes.