Research Groups

Which RGLs are recruiting PhD Students?

As far as potential PhDs go, we encourage you to conceptualise all of our group leaders as recruiting!

Our raison d’être as the IMPRS is to guide truly exceptional young researchers towards their own scientific independence. This requires a lot of genuine interest, initiative, and perserverence. That may not be for everyone. When thinking about your own scientific future through a PhD with us, we encourage you to explore our research groups, and check in with yourself on if their scientific vision ignites a spark in you. If you feel that spark, reflect about how your own skillsets, interests and wishes for the future fit into that RGL’s vision. 

Our IMPRS Research Groups are located at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), the Center of Systems Biology Dresden (CSBD) and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPI-PKS). We merge approaches from biology, biophysics, chemistry, computer science and mathematics to understand emergence in living systems.

 

You can also view the research groups from our partner program, the Dresden International Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Life Sciences (DIGS-ILS). If you’re keen to work with us as an intern or a predoctoral researcher, one of the bonuses is your application will be visibile to DIGS-ILS group leaders as well --  we need only a single application through our united portal.