Applicants and Open Positions
Recruitment policy
Our group is interested in excellent new coworkers.
We look for candidates with high interest in basic science.
Candidates would typically have strong skills in some of the following fields:
- Metal physics
- Thermodynamics and kinetics
- Phase transformation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sustainable metallurgy
- Hydrogen
- Alloy design
- Crystal plasticity
- Phase field theory
- Lattice defects
- Microstructure mechanics / DAMASK
- Programming
- Electron microscopy
- Atom probe tomography
- Excellent English
Funding opportunities for ambitious postdoctoral candidates:
The Alexander von Humboldt foundation provides scholarships.
In a nutshell:
In case you:
- are / will soon be a postdoc
- have first experience in excellent research
- have good papers in competitive international journals published
Then:
- find a lab or group in Germany that matches your interests
- contact host and check whether interests match
- write proposal and discuss it with host
- submit to Alexander von Humboldt foundation and wait (up to 4
months)
Opportunities for ambitious doctoral students (worldwide):
Organizations such as DAAD (German Academic Exchange Serrvice) and others offer scholarship support.
Specific opportunities for applicants from China:
China Scholarship Council (CSC)
Specific opportunities for applicants from Japan:
Freigeist Fellowship by Volkswagenstiftung
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Any aplication to our group should contain the following information:
1) Concise 1-page motivation letter why / in which specific field of our group you are interested and why
2) Detailed CV with focus on scientific achievements
3) Publication list of peer reviewed papers; international publications only
4) pdf version of the official master thesis
5) Your 3 best papers as pdf
6) 2 reference letters from leading Professors
7) Names and contact information of 3 senior scholars as references that I can contact
8) Detailed copies / list / transcripts of your educational scientific courses, scores and grades from your university education
9) Examples of ur current research such as short reports on some high end key results
Best merge all into a single pdf or zip with your name as file id such as x-y-application.
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