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!

Two female researchers are standing in a large solar centre at the DLR Jülich.

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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.

Evolutionary algorithm generates tailored “molecular fingerprints”

A team led by Prof Frank Glorius from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster has developed an evolutionary algorithm that identifies the structures in a molecule that are particularly relevant for a respective question and uses them to encode the properties of the molecules for various machine-learning models. The method is also suitable for the machine prediction of quantum chemical properties and the toxicity of molecules. It can be applied to any molecular data set and does not require expert knowledge of the underlying relationships.

May 10, 2024, 1:00:00 PM

Fewer obstacles for the Mittelstand!

A return to the social market economy, increased development of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit as well as an activating economic policy instead of a directing one were among the topics called for by the speakers at Round Table Mittelstand on 8 May 2024 in Berlin. Over 30 representatives from research institutes, business associations, KfW Bankengruppe, the OECD, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Protection and Energy of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia discussed the question of "SME policy in times of transformation: what role does regulatory policy play?" in Berlin.

May 10, 2024, 12:19:30 PM

The Rhizobial nitrogen fixing symbionts (fluorescently-labeled in orange and green using genetic probes) residing inside diatoms collected from the tropical North Atlantic. The nucleus of the diatom is shown in bright blue.

New Rhizobia-diatom symbiosis solves long-standing marine mystery

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered bacterial symbiont is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing Rhizobia which live in partnership with many crop plants and may open up new avenues to engineer nitrogen-fixing plants.

May 9, 2024, 7:00:00 PM

How aging clocks tick

Two scientists from the University of Cologne have discovered that aging clocks are based on random events / publication in ‘Nature Aging’

May 9, 2024, 1:00:00 PM

Artist’s impression of electrons that are emitted from a metal needle tip, triggered by a non-classical (purple) and a classical (blue) light source.

'Weird' statistics of electrons ejected by intense quantum light

Photon-number distributions of various light sources have been studied extensively. However, little is known about the statistical distribution of electrons emitted under the effect of intense light. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered extreme and highly unusual statistical events in electron-number distributions obtained when nanometer-sized metal needle tips are illuminated with ultrashort pulses of bright quantum light.

May 8, 2024, 9:21:29 PM

Microscopic image of a co-culture of the two species of bacteria. The blue colouring shows bacteria, the red dots are viruses. They cause some bacterial cells to break up, releasing the vitamin into the water.

Marine bacteria team up to produce a vital vitamin

Two species of marine bacteria from the North Sea have established an unusual and sometimes destructive relationship to produce the important vitamin B12. This is reported by researchers from Oldenburg, Germany, and San Diego, US, in the journal Nature. The team's experiments show that the two microbial species have developed a coordinated strategy to obtain the scarce but essential vitamin.

May 8, 2024, 7:00:00 PM