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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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.

A new model of enzymatic reactions extends the traditional reaction coordinate by considering coupling between the enzyme and the molecule. This way, alternative ways for enzymatic reactions open which in turn enables the design of novel optimized enzymes

Assembly instructions for enzymes

Universal rules can help to design an optimal enzyme from scratch • Directing chemistry as an emergent property via bifurcation • Coupling and momentum conservation considered in new model for enzyme activity • Novel mechanism bypassing energy barrier in enzymatic reaction • Three golden rules can be inferred to design optimized enzymes for chemical reactions

May 24, 2025, 12:32:36 AM

The authors used this server to reanalyze extensive data sets on the large-scale distribution of plankton-derived lipids in the ocean. Image: Weimin Liu

How marine plankton adapts to a changing world

New study shows how marine plankton responds to changing ocean conditions using lipidomics and data science tools

May 23, 2025, 10:00:00 PM

Reptile skin and sociability among early mammalian ancestors

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Magdeburg and Paris has for the first time investigated resting traces with the body impressions of early mammalian relatives. The 290-million-year-old trace fossils were discovered over 100 years ago in the Tambach sandstone of the famous Bromacker fossil locality in the UNESCO Geopark of Thuringia and have now been re-examined as part of the ongoing BROMACKER research project. These geologically oldest resting traces of early mammal relatives provide unique insights into reptile-like scales and the social behaviour of our early ancestors. The results have been published in the scientific journal Current Biology.

May 23, 2025, 7:00:00 PM

More courage for simpler building regulations

The German government wants to make investing in Germany more attractive again. According to the latest IfM study, ‘Policy approaches to speeding up and simplifying commercial building permit procedures,’ it would be helpful if non-essential requirements and standards were removed from building regulations. In addition, both bundled responsibility for approval procedures at district and government level and the empowerment and encouragement of municipal employees to exercise discretionary powers to speed up procedures would have positive effects.

May 23, 2025, 2:47:01 PM

For the first time, researchers from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence have determined the charge radius of helium-3 and thus also the exact difference to the radius of helium-4. This precision opens up new horizons in the search for prev. unknown physics

Charge radius of Helium-3 measured with unprecedented precision

Research findings from the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence and the Paul Scherrer Institute published in Science

May 23, 2025, 2:32:55 PM

Marine heatwaves pose problems for coastal plankton

Temperatures around the world continue to rise – and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, increasingly frequent and intense heat events also have consequences for marine organisms. Researchers at the Marine Station Helgoland, a research facility of the Alfred Wegener Institute, have quantified the frequency and intensity of these heatwaves along with their repercussions for plankton. The researchers found that gradual warming causes significant shifts in the species spectrum. When heatwaves are added, however, these alterations are amplified. The results have been published in three publications, most recently in Limnology and Oceanography.

May 23, 2025, 1:08:41 PM