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.

Memleben monastery. In the right part of the picture, the monastery garden, under whose border the predecessor building of the monumental church continues.

Searching for the place of death of Otto the Great

Since 2017, an archaeological fieldschool and research excavation has been dedicated to the former imperial palace and the rich Benedictine monastery in Memleben (Burgenlandkreis) founded by Otto II. This year's investigations yielded new findings of extraordinary importance. For the first time, reliable archaeological evidence of the Palatinate of Memleben, the as yet unlocated place of death of Emperor Otto the Great and his father Heinrich I, was identified in the form of a stone predecessor of Otto II's monastery church. A mysterious foundation in the cloister of the monumental monastery church can possibly be linked to the mention of a subsequent burial of Otto the Great's intestines.

Sep 29, 2023, 4:00:00 PM

The coordinated beating pattern of cilia is driven by non-reciprocal interactions and the border regions, as described in a new model.

Order from a border

Edges cause cilia to quickly synchronize their beating pattern. Border regions can cause cilia to coordinate their motion creating a unidirectional wave that is essential for biological functions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen proposed a new model describing this synchronized pattern driven by the border region.

Sep 29, 2023, 3:43:39 PM

Pictured is an early planula larval stage of the sea anemone Aiptasia (cyan nuclei and green stinging cells) preying on a crustacean nauplius (green) of the copepod Tisbe sp. Image credit: Ira Mägele and Ulrike Engel

Did Animal Evolution Begin with a Predatory Lifestyle?

Surprising findings by a research group of Heidelberg University on the development of sea anemones suggest that a predatory lifestyle moulded their evolution and had a significant impact on the origin of their nervous system. The researchers were able to show that the young life stages (larvae) of the small sea anemone Aiptasia actively feed on living prey and are not dependent on algae. To capture its prey, the anemone larvae use specialised stinging cells and a simple neuronal network.

Sep 29, 2023, 3:08:31 PM

Innovative corona vaccine developed

New vaccine technology could protect from future Coronaviruses and variants

Sep 29, 2023, 2:30:06 PM

Representation of the language network in the human brain based on the findings of 403 studies.

New insights into how the human brain organises language

A new study has provided the first clear picture of where language processes are located in the brain. The findings may be useful in clinical trials involving language recovery after brain injury. Dr Sabrina Turker, Dr Philipp Kuhnke and Professor Gesa Hartwigsen from the Wilhelm Wundt Institute of Psychology at Leipzig University and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences conducted the meta-analysis in collaboration with researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich. They have published their findings in the prestigious journal Psychological Bulletin.

Sep 29, 2023, 1:05:13 PM

An intense laser pulse (in red) hits a flow of water molecules, inducing an ultrafast dynamics of the electrons in the liquid.

Intense lasers shine new light on the electron dynamics of liquids

The behavior of electrons in liquids determines a vast range of chemical processes and thus essential processes in organisms and the world as a whole. But electron movements are extremely hard to capture because they take place within attoseconds: the realm of quintillionths of a second. Since advanced lasers now operate at these timescales, they can offer scientists glimpses of these ultrafast processes via a range of techniques.

Sep 28, 2023, 7:00:00 PM