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.

New blood-based marker opens up perspectives for cancer diagnostics

Research team at OncoRay identifies MMP11 as a promising biomarker for liquid biopsy in prostate cancer Metastatic prostate cancer is currently associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. In addition, patients respond very differently to standard treatments such as hormone therapy or radiation therapy. Reliable markers that can be used to predict aggressive tumor progression and treatment success at an early stage are still largely lacking. A research team led by Prof. Anna Dubrovska and Dr. Ielizaveta Gorodetska from OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology has now identified a biomarker that can be measured in the blood.

Mar 6, 2026, 12:00:08 PM

A new “molecular switch” for inborn immunity identified

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown signalling cascade that determines how powerful our innate immune system responds to virus infections. This discovery has broad implications for inflammatory diseases, cancer, and neurodegeneration / publication in ’Nature Cell Biology‘

Mar 6, 2026, 12:00:00 PM

Dyson orbital for electron attachment, calculated using quantum hardware.

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

Twisted electronic states in a molecule realized experimentally and modeled on quantum hardware.

Mar 6, 2026, 9:46:31 AM

Forest damage could double: How fires, storms, and bark beetles will shape the future of Europe’s forests

Wildfires, storms, and bark beetles have a major impact on forests and the benefits they provide for people and the environment. For the first time, a large international team led by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has calculated how disturbances could transform Europe’s forests by 2100. Even in the most optimistic scenario, the team foresees a substantial increase in damaged forest area—in the most pessimistic case, disturbances could even double.

Mar 6, 2026, 9:45:52 AM

Villages: An underestimated habitat with potential

Villages can provide important habitats for insects. A new study by the University of Würzburg shows which areas in rural settlements are particularly rich in species – and where there is still room for improvement.

Mar 6, 2026, 8:37:00 AM

New software for biodiversity research enables comprehensive quantification of ecological stability

How stable are ecosystems? And how can stability be described and assessed using quantitative parameters? Providing answers to these seemingly simple questions is no easy task, as the stability of ecosystems can be measured at several levels – from individuals to complex species communities – using a variety of indicators at many different points in time. An international research team has now developed “estar”, a software programme that reflects this diversity of cases and allows for the standardised quantification of ecological stability. The software is presented in detail in a recently published article in the journal “Methods in Ecology and Evolution”.

Mar 5, 2026, 5:05:17 PM