With more than 39,000 employees and an annual budget of 4.5 billion euros, the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest scientific organisation. The results of research work at its 18 Helmholtz Centres are intended to help find scientific solutions for major and urgent questions facing society, research and industry in six research fields. The Helmholtz Association offers many interesting opportunities for international researchers.
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Jobs at the Helmholtz Association
Helmholtz Research Centres cover a wide range of research fields and also operate large research infrastructures. Vacancies at all Helmholtz Research Centres – including positions for postdocs – are published on the Helmholtz Association's job vacancies page.
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Helmholtz Research Schools and Graduate Schools
These research schools and graduate schools offer structured doctoral programmes for highly-qualified PhD students in partnership with universities.
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Helmholtz Young Investigator Groups
The best junior researchers receive excellent working conditions in a research-oriented environment. Researchers are granted independence early on and can set up and lead their own research group under excellent conditions at a Helmholtz Centre.
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Funding of First-Time Appointments of Excellent Women Scientists
The programme supports the first-time permanent appointment of excellent women scientists to a professorship at a university in Germany.
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Funding to Recruit Top-Level International Women Scientists
The Helmholtz Association is intensifying its efforts to attract excellent women scientists from abroad to scientific management positions.
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