Max Planck Institute in Germany invites applications for vacant (44) PhD, Postdoc and Academic Positions

Last Updated on August 20, 2025 by Scholar Idea

Max Planck Institute in Germany invites application for vacant PhD, Postdoc and Academic Positions, an independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.

Postdoctoral Researcher Positions | Living Matter PhysicsAugust 20, 2025Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

PhD Positions | Living Matter PhysicsAugust 19, 2025Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

Head of the  IT Department (m/f/d)August 19, 2025Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg

Research Coordinator (m/f/d)August 18, 2025Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena

Scientific Project Manager (m/f/d)August 15, 2025Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden

Fully funded PhD Positions (Doctoral Researcher m/f/d) | Condensed Matter ScienceAugust 13, 2025Materials Science (P&A) Materials Sciences (M&T) Quantum Physics Solid State Research (A&A) Solid State Research (M&T)Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

12 PhD Positions | Fully FundedAugust 12, 2025Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Köln

Technical Assistant (m/f/d) | Part-time (50 %)August 12, 2025Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg

Doctoral position on Primate Social Behavior (m/f/d)August 07, 2025Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Electronics Engineer (f/m/d) | Satellite Instrumentation (Project NewAthena WFI)August 05, 2025Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching

Engineer, Technical Assistant (CTA) (m/f/d) | Battery Related Applied Chemistry, Synthetic Chemistry & Battery ResearchAugust 01, 2025Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg

Doctoral Student (m/f/d) | Brain Algorithms and CircuitsAugust 01, 2025NeurobiologyMax Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) | Brain Algorithms and CircuitsAugust 01, 2025Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main

MPI-CSL Journalist in Residence Fellowship (m/f/d)August 01, 2025Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

PhD/Postdoc (f/m/d) | Identifying Brittle-ductile Transitions in Intermetallic-metal Hetero-interfacesJuly 31, 2025Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials GmbH, Düsseldorf

Support Scientist / PhD (m/f/d)July 31, 2025Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bad Münstereifel Effelsberg

PhD student (f/m/d) | Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane TraffickingJuly 31, 2025Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

PhD Student (m/f/d) | Multi-modal Biological-Classification-of-Mental-Disorders (BeCOME) studyJuly 31, 2025Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich

Technical Assistant (m/f/d) or Engineer (m/f/d)July 30, 2025Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main

PhD or Postdoctoral position (m/f/d)July 28, 2025Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

Postdoc (m/f/d) | Methanogen GeneticsJuly 25, 2025Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (f/m/d)July 25, 2025Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim

Technical Assistance for Light- and Electron Microscopy (f/m/d) Imaging PlatformJuly 25, 2025Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim

PhD position on Exploring Supernova Remnants in eROSITA and Multiwavelength Data (m/f/d)July 24, 2025Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching

Scientific Project Coordinator (f/m/d)July 22, 2025Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam-Golm

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) | Structure and Dynamics of ChromosomesJuly 18, 2025Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main

Flow Cytometry Specialist – Sorter Operator (f/m/d)July 14, 2025Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim

Doctoral / Post-Doctoral researchers (f/m/d) | Unravelling the mysteries of Vibrational Strong CouplingJuly 08, 2025Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg

PhD Student or Postdoc (f/m/d) | Theory and algorithms for structure determination from single molecule x-ray scattering imagesJuly 04, 2025Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

PhD Student or Postdoc (f/m/d) | Theory and Methods for Non-equilibrium Theory and Atomistic Simulations of Complex BiomoleculesJuly 04, 2025Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

Postdoc (m/f/d) “Magnet Modelling”July 03, 2025Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (Greifswald), Greifswald

PhD Student (f/m/d) | Bioengineering of a promiscuous methanogen hydrogenase for synthesizing renewable organicsJuly 01, 2025Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

PhD Student (f/m/d) | Uncovering the evolution of metabolic interactions in intrinsically disordered peptidesJuly 01, 2025Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

Post-doctoral research positions (m/f/d) | High-Energy AstrophysicsJune 27, 2025Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching

Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d)June 25, 2025Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried

Postdoctoral position(s) | Axion Dark Matter search experiment MADMAXJune 24, 2025Max Planck Institute for Physics, Garching

Group leader (m/f/d) | Plant Development and DiversityJune 23, 2025Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne

Junior Group Leader (m/f/d) | Plant Chromosome BiologyJune 18, 2025Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne

Dissertation Writing-up FellowshipsJune 10, 2025Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)

Postdocs (m/f/d) incl. possibility to earn post-doctoral lecturing qualification (habilitation)June 03, 2025Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg

Ph.D. student (m/f/d) | Discovery and Development of Electrosynthetic ReactionsMay 19, 2025Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr

PhD position | Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics and Active Matter (starting from July 2025)May 06, 2025Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

Postdoc position (m/f/d) | Correlated Operando Electron and X-ray Microscopy of ElectrocatalystsMarch 21, 2025Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

Postdoc position (m/f/d) | Functionalization of UHV-Prepared Single Crystals for CO2RRFebruary 26, 2025Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin