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.

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

An ultrafast tunnelling current flows between the frontier atom of a sharp tip and a sample in response to an incident electromagnetic driving field. This atomically confined current leads to the emission of light.

Atomic-scale telegraphy with light

Physicists at the University of Regensburg manage to reach atomic resolution with optical microscopy by measuring light from a quantum spark faster than a trillionth of a second

May 8, 2024, 7:00:00 PM

Dr. Stefanie Ruhs and Philipp Terpe in the lab at University Medicine Halle.

Study shows how sepsis can affect vascular smooth muscle cells on an acute and long-term basis

A recent study by University Medicine Halle shows how sepsis can lead to dysfunction of vascular smooth muscle cells. The researchers found that elevated lactate levels and acidosis, which can occur acutely during sepsis due to metabolic derailment, only have a disrupting effect in synergistic combination. The study, published in the Journal of Biomedical Science, also provides a possible explanation for why some sepsis survivors experience long-lasting impairments.

May 8, 2024, 5:35:00 PM