Open Positions
Finding the right lab is one of the most important decisions of your PhD — and we want to make sure you find a great fit. The research groups below are all open to new PhD students in the Autumn 2026 call. Take your time exploring — click through to each lab page to get a real sense of the science, the people, and the questions they're chasing.
Open positions Autumn Call 2026
Stefan Ameres
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics; Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Christa Buecker
Max Perutz Labs
Research area: Gene Regulation, RNA and Epigenetics
Tim Clausen
IMP
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Disease Mechanisms, Immunology, Pathogens
Gang Dong
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Disease Mechanisms, Immunology, Pathogens
Moritz Gaidt
IMP
Research area: Disease Mechanisms, Immunology and Pathogens; Gene Regulation, RNA and Epigenetics
Daniel Gerlich
IMBA
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Cell and Chromosome Biology; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics
Anton Goloborodko
IMBA
Research Areas: Biophysics/Optics; Cell and Chromosome Biology; Computational Biology, Genomes and Evolution
Erinc Hallacli
Max Perutz Labs
Research area: Disease Mechanisms, Immunology, Pathogens; Neurobiology
David Haselbach
IMP
Research area: Biochemistry and Structural Biology;Computational Biology, Genomes and Evolution; Biophysics/Optics
Doris Kaltenecker
IMP
Research area: Disease Mechanisms, Immunology and Pathogens
Elif Karagöz
Max Perutz Labs
Research area: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics
Peter Kharchenko
IMBA
Research areas:Computational Biology, Genomes and Evolution; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics;
Sven Klumpe
IMP/IMBA
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Computational Biology, Genomes and Evolution; Biophysics/Optics
Alwin Koehler
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Cell and Chromosome Biology; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics
Javier Martinez
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Disease Mechanisms, Immunology, Pathogens;Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics
Joao Matos
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Cell and Chromosome Biology; Computational Biology, Genomes and Evolution
Danny Nedialkova
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics; Stem Cells, Development, Regeneration; Cell and Chromosome Biology
Anna Obenauf
IMP
Research area: Disease Mechanisms, Immunology and Pathogens
Andrea Pauli
IMP
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics; Stem Cells, Development, Regeneration
Clemens Plaschka
IMP
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics; Biophysics/Optics;
Irma Querques
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology: Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics
Silvia Ramundo
GMI
Research areas: Plant Biology; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics; Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Jonas Ries
Max Perutz Labs
Research areas: Biophysics/Optics; Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Cell and Chromosome Biology
Alex Stark
IMP
Research areas: Biochemistry and Structural Biology; Computational Biology, Genomes and Evolution; Gene Regulation, RNA, Epigenetics
Elly Tanaka
IMBA
Research area: Stem Cells, Development, Regeneration; Disease Mechanisms, Immunology, Pathogens
Joris van der Veeken
IMP
Research area: Disease Mechanisms, Immunology and Pathogens