Jülich Research Centre Germany: 60 New PhD and Academic Opportunities

Join one of Europe’s largest research hubs! Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) invites applications for 61 new PhD and Academic Opportunities for 2026. Explore funded roles in supercomputing, energy, and bioelectronics within the Helmholtz Association.

PhD and Academic Opportunities at Jülich Research Centre Germany

2026M-031

Student Assistent – Rhizosphere processes and root system architecture in successive winter wheat rotations

IBG-3

Jülich (GER)

2026M-030

Internship – Wheat Mixture Root Water Uptake

IBG-3

Jülich (GER)

2025-350

Staff Scientist / PostDoc – Machine Learning for Scientific Applications

IAS-8

Jülich (GER)

2026D-017

PhD Position – Techno-economic assessment of geothermal plants with material co-production in energy systems

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2026-054

Postdoctoral Researcher – Quantum Algorithms for Drug Discovery

PGI-12

Jülich (GER)

2026T-0330

Research Software Engineer

JSC

Jülich (GER)

2026-053

Postdoc – Operando scanning probe microscopy to monitor catalytic interfaces for chemical hydrogen storage

IHE-1

Brainergy Park Jülich (GER)

2026-045

Software Engineer – Data & Simulation Platforms

ICE-1

Jülich (GER)

2026T-0326

MLOps Engineer

JSC

Jülich (GER)

2026-048

Scientist / Postdoc – Biomechanical Enhancement and its social situatedness

INM-7

Jülich (GER)

2026T-0322

System Engineer for IT-Security

JSC

Jülich (GER)

2026D-026

PhD Position – Machine learning and artificial intelligence for the understanding of diffuse scattering

JCNS-2

Jülich (GER)

2026D-025

PhD Position – Performance and energy modeling for spiking network simulations on conventional and accelerator architectures

PGI-15

Jülich (GER)

2026-041

AI Specialist in an AI Factory

JSC

Jülich (GER)

2026-040

AI Researcher with Project Management Responsibilities

JSC

Jülich (GER)

2026D-024

Tasso Springer Fellowships – Six PhD Positions in Neutron Research

JCNS

Garching (München) (GER)

2026-044

Instrument Scientist / Postdoc for the Neutron Spectrometer PANDA

JCNS-4

Garching (München) (GER)

2025D-181

PhD Position – Interactive Learning for Closed-Loop Control of Microfluidic Live-Cell Experiments (HDS-LEE graduate school)

IAS-8

Jülich (GER)

2025D-182

PhD Position – High-Fidelity Multi-Instance Modeling of Living Symbioses: 3D+t Reconstruction of Paramecia and Symbionts from Live-Cell Microscopy (HDS-LEE graduate school)

IAS-8

Jülich (GER)

2026M-025

Internship – Phenotyping of root data

IBG-3

Jülich (GER)

2026M-026

Internship – Organizing Phenotypic Data for Soil-Plant Model Calibration

IBG-3

Jülich (GER)

2026D-023

PhD position – Learning Tailored Iterative Algorithms for Accelerating AC Power Flow Computations (HDS-LEE graduate school)

ICE-1

Jülich (GER)

2026M-027

Master thesis – Fabrication, Characterization and Optimization of Magnetic Micro-Actuators

JCNS-2

Jülich (GER)

2026M-024

Master Thesis – Analysis of Green Hydrogen Derivative Import Potential for Germany

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2025D-126

PhD Position – Simulations and machine learning applied to proteins

INM-9

Jülich (GER)

2026D-019

PhD position – Deciphering the action mechanism of fusogenic liposomes, an advanced drug delivery system

IBI-2

Jülich (GER)

2026D-022

PhD position – Deciphering the mechanical properties of bio membranes and developing a treatment strategy to improve those during ageing

IBI-2

Jülich (GER)

2026D-021

PhD Position – Climate Stress Impacts on the Chemistry of Forest-Derived Organic Aerosols – Chamber and Airborne Measurements

ICE-3

Jülich (GER)

2025D-137

PhD-Position – Design and Operation of Local Energy Communities

ICE-1

Jülich (GER)

2026M-019

Master Thesis – Influence of disruptive developments and current techno-economic trends on the German energy system transformation

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2025M-097

Master Thesis – Advanced electrolytes for lithium metal battery applications

IMD-4

Münster (GER)

2025M-096

Master Thesis – Advanced electrolytes for sodium-based battery applications

IMD-4

Münster (GER)

2025D-052

PhD Position – Quantitative evaluation of (macro)economic impacts related to energy system transformations

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2026M-014

Master Thesis – Catalysis for NMR Hyperpolarization

IBI-7

Jülich (GER)

2026M-002

Master Thesis – Integrating metal hydride storage into green ammonia production – A process simulation study

INW-4

Brainergy Park Jülich (GER)

2026D-012

PhD Thesis in Physics, Materials Science or Chemistry – Tailored oxide membranes for energy applications

PGI-7

Jülich (GER)

2026M-007

Master Thesis in Physics, Materials Science, or Chemistry – Controlling Jahn-Teller distortions in perovskite thin films

PGI-7

Jülich (GER)

2026M-008

Master Thesis in Physics, Chemistry or Materials Science – Atomically-tailored water splitting catalysts for hydrogen technologies

PGI-7

Jülich (GER)

2026M-009

Master Thesis in Physics or Materials Science – Finite-size phenomena in free-standing oxide membranes

PGI-7

Jülich (GER)

2026M-006

Master Thesis in Physics or Materials Science: Remanent phase shifter based on memristive technology

PGI-7

Jülich (GER)

2026-003

Scientist / Postdoc – Smart Vision-Based Control of Microbial Arenas

IBG-1

Jülich (GER)

2026D-008

PhD Position – Networks of complex neuron models: Learning in networks of spiking, highly non-linear neurons

PGI-14

Aachen (GER)

2026D-009

PhD Position – Hybrid electronic / photonic integrated neuromorphic computing systems for large-scale machine learning

PGI-14

Aachen (GER)

2026D-005

PhD position – Molecular simulation and machine-learning for predictive chromatography modeling with CADET – within the HDS-LEE graduate school

IBG-4

Jülich (GER)

2026D-004

PhD Position – Additive Manufacturing and Resource Strategies for the Energy Transition

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2026-007

Team Leader – Integrated Resource Assessment

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2025-268

Controls System Engineer

INW-1

Brainergy Park Jülich (GER)

2025D-188

PhD Position – Process and plant engineering for chemical hydrogen storage

INW-4

Brainergy Park Jülich (GER)

2025-381

Postdoc / Research Software Engineer – Real-Time Live-Cell Image Analytics and Experimental Control

IBG-1

Jülich (GER)

2025D-180

PhD position – Co-regulation structures for large-scale single-cell transcriptomics – within the HDS-LEE graduate school

IBG-4

Jülich (GER)

2025D-179

PhD position – Probabilistic Metabolic Flux Analysis within the HDS-LEE graduate school

IBG-1

Jülich (GER)

2025D-140

PhD position – Analysis of Transformation Pathways for European Gas and Hydrogen Grids in Integrated Energy Systems

ICE-1

Jülich (GER)

2025M-090

Master Thesis – Development of a TCSPC measurement strategy for optimization of information content and measurement time

IMD-3

Jülich (GER)

2025M-086

Master Thesis – AI-Accelerated Power Flow Analysis for Synthetic Electrical Distribution Grids

ICE-2

Jülich (GER)

2025D-123

PhD-Position – Development of scalable superconducting quantum systems

PGI-13

Jülich (GER)

2025D-097

PhD Position – Design and development of an in-house X-ray beamline for long term operando investigation of chemical hydrogen storage reactors

INW-1

Brainergy Park Jülich (GER)

2025-059

Postdoc – Neutron Spectroscopy for Energy Materials

JCNS-3

Jülich (GER)

2025M-001

Master Thesis – Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques for Studying Large-scale Metabolic Models

IBG-1

Jülich (GER)

2024-264

Bachelor/Master Student in the field of quantum technologies

PGI-11

Aachen (GER)

2024-263

Postdoc in the domain of coherent spin shuttling for scaling semiconductor qubits

PGI-11

Jülich (GER)