Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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Why Germany

There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

MCC: Carbon pricing works – major meta-study shows findings more comprehensively than ever

Between 5 and 21 percent emission reductions: this is the empirically measured effect of carbon pricing systems in their first few years of operation. A research team now identifies these findings for 17 real-world climate policies around the globe, condensing the state of knowledge more comprehensively than ever. The team uses artificial intelligence to collate existing surveys, making them comparable using a novel calculation concept. The major meta-study was led by the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) and published in the renowned journal Nature Communications.

May 16, 2024, 5:41:54 PM

For the first time, Materials scientists Torge Hartig (left) and Stefan Schröder have compared the properties of polymer coatings for biomedical applications in a comprehensive study.

Customised production of antiviral coatings and cell culture surfaces

The method of material scientists from Kiel enables first comprehensive comparison of polymer coatings for biomedical applications

May 16, 2024, 5:08:53 PM

Pathoblockers, a Future Alternative to Antibiotics?

Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin “defanging” bacteria, rendering them harmless

May 16, 2024, 5:03:48 PM

Movement Coordination Leads to Identification

When members of a group successfully coordinate their movements with one another, this leads to a stronger sense of togetherness. This was shown by a recent study by the Universities of Würzburg and Regensburg.

May 16, 2024, 5:00:00 PM

Publication prize of the Leibniz-Kolleg 2024 for Dr. Ekaterina Ilin

As a part of the Leibniz Kolleg event on Thursday, May 16, the prestigious Publication Prize 2024 will be awarded to Dr. Ekaterina Ilin from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) for her doctoral thesis in the Audimax of the University of Potsdam.

May 16, 2024, 4:58:49 PM

Risk perception influenced less by media than previously thought

For decades, researchers have assumed that people overestimate the risk of dramatic causes of death, such as road traffic accidents. The reason given for this was that such deaths are the subject of far greater media attention than more significant but less spectacular mortality risks. However, a study at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now debunked this assumption. Although dramatic causes of death receive disproportionate media attention, deaths in the personal environment are more important for the risk perception.

May 16, 2024, 4:38:55 PM