Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching study all sorts of objects outside the Earth – but they do set priorities. They investigate our Milky Way, and discovered a few years ago that its centre harbours a gigantic black hole. They study the physics and dynamics of the interstellar matter and the development of galaxies; they …

Nov 21, 2024 · Fully funded PhD Positions (f/m/d) - Molecular Organ Biology. The International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Organ Biology (IMPRS-MOB) is looking for motivated and talented PhD students (m/f/d) in life sciences.

Max Planck researchers work with partners in more than 120 countries. Here they write about their personal experiences and impressions. Jozefien Van de Velde from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne traveled to Australia for two months in …

Oct 23, 2024 · The Department of Cellular Biophysics invites applications for PhD students in the field of battery technology starting as soon as possible.

Jan 3, 2023 · A ground-breaking twist to the CRISPR tool – aka “genetic scissors” – is being put to use to edit plant genomes by scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, signalling a methodology change.

The mission of the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology is to understand the function, communication and interaction of microorganisms with their environment, to describe them with the aid of mathematical models and to modify them in a targeted manner using synthetic-biological approaches.

Nov 20, 2024 · The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) invites applications for Postdoctoral position(s) focused on R&D in connection with the LEGEND experiment, a next generation large scale neutrinoless double beta (0νββ) decay experiment based on HPGe detectors. Germanium based 0νββ decay experiments are designed to investigate the nature of the neutrino and to test Lepton number conservation by ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Bettina Lotsch, director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, receives the Leibniz Prize 2025. She is honoured for her development of new materials. The Leibniz Prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is Germany’s most prestigious research funding award, accompanied by prize money of 2.5 million euros.

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The Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology is one of the world’s leading centres for research in socio-cultural anthropology. Common to all research projects at the Max Planck Institute is the comparative analysis of social change; it is primarily in this domain that its researchers contribute to anthropological theory, though many programmes also have applied significance and ...