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.

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.

GBP Monitor Report April: Most Tax Experts Are in Favor of Reducing Business Taxes

The recently adopted Growth Opportunities Act was designed to increase competitiveness and investment incentives. But are the tax measures of the law sufficient to achieve these goals? The current survey of the German Business Panels (GBP) shows that this is not the case. The GBP data show that companies and tax experts are dissatisfied with the economic policy and that they have little hope that the policy will change. However, they agree on what tax policy could do.

Apr 22, 2024, 1:21:32 PM

Comprehensive view of a whole mouse brain, showcasing cells detected by DELiVR. Each color represents a different brain region, illustrating the spatial distribution of neuronal activity.

Advanced Brain Science Without Coding Expertise

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the LMU University Hospital Munich introduce DELiVR, offering a new AI-based approach to the complex task of brain cell mapping. The deep learning tool democratizes advanced neuroscience by eliminating the need for coding expertise. DELiVR empowers biologists to investigate disease-related spatial cell dynamics efficiently, fostering the development of precision therapies for enhanced patient care.

Apr 22, 2024, 1:05:00 PM

Lead Authors: Dr. Alena van Bömmel (l.) and Dr. Maja Olecka, Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmannn Institute (FLI).

Abrupt Epigenetic Aging of the Colon

Research teams from Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute Jena (FLI), University Hospital Jena and Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel identify sudden molecular changes during aging. According to the study published in Nature Communications, two key waves of epigenetic modifications take place; during the shift from early to middle age (3-9 months) and middle to late age (15-24 months).

Apr 22, 2024, 12:54:53 PM

Magnetization density change of the non-van der Waals 2D material CdTiO3 upon hydrogenation with its passivated atomic structure superimposed onto it. Red regions indicate an enhancement of the magnetization whereas blue areas signal a related reduction.

Magnetic with a pinch of hydrogen: Research team develops new idea to improve the properties of ultra-thin materials

Magnetic two-dimensional materials consisting of one or a few atomic layers have only recently become known and promise interesting applications, for example for the electronics of the future. So far, however, it has not been possible to control the magnetic states of these materials well enough. A German-American research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and Dresden University of Technology (TUD) is now presenting in the journal Nano Letters (DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04777) an innovative idea that could overcome this shortcoming - by allowing the 2D layer to react with hydrogen.

Apr 22, 2024, 12:21:03 PM

If you give companies R&D credits, they are more likely to acquire startups

Firms that receive research and development (R&D) credits are much more likely to acquire venture capital (VC) backed startups, alongside investing in their own R&D efforts, according to new research by ESMT Berlin.

Apr 22, 2024, 11:37:20 AM

Felix Lehmkühler at the instrument MID (Materials Imaging & Dynamics) of European XFEL where the experiments were done.

European XFEL elicits secrets from an important nanogel

An international team at the world’s largest X-ray laser European XFEL at Schenefeld near Hamburg has scrutinised the properties of an important nanogel that is often used in medicine to release drugs in a targeted and controlled manner at the desired location in a patient's body. The team now published the results in the journal Science Advances.

Apr 19, 2024, 10:00:00 PM