Open doctoral positions

Application deadline: April 1, 2026

Anticipated starting date: September/October 2026

All positions will be funded by for a maximum of 36 months. Prolongation of funding from other means of funding is possible for some projects.

To apply for a position within the BioHYBRITE Doctoral Network, candidates must meet the following criteria:

  • You must not have lived or carried out your main activity (work, study, etc.) in the host country for more than 12 months in the 3 years before your recruitment date.
  • You must not already hold a doctoral degree at the time of recruitment.

Available projects

  1. Local PAINT superresolution microscopy for multiplexed RNA detection
    Tinnefeld lab, LMU Munich, Germany more…
  2. Decoding and Engineering Immunological Synapses: Super-Resolution Mapping and Patterned Therapeutics
    Jungmann lab, LMU Munich/MPI of Biochemistry, Germany more…
  3. Computational de novo protein design of specific NA-binders
    Khmelinskaia lab, LMU Munich, Germany more…
  4. DNA and RNA strand displacement in complex environments
    Simmel lab, TU Munich, Germany more…
  5. Probing silicification as a means to achieve impermeable or selectively permeable DNA origami cages for biocatalysis Heuer-Jungemann lab, TU Dortmund, Germany more…
  6. Nanopore screening of nucleic acid:protein hybrids for antibacterial functions
    Keyser lab /Mela lab, University of Cambridge, UK more…
  7. RNA-producing antimicrobial synthetic cells made from nucleic acid:enzyme hybrids
    Di Michele lab, University of Cambridge, UK more…
  8. Designing programmable biohybrid molecular machines
    Margeat/Bellot lab, Centre de Biologie Structurale, Montpellier, France more…
  9. Mechanics of DNA–RNA Hybrids and Their Interaction with Proteins
    Moreno-Herrero lab, CNB-CSIC Madrid, Spain more…
  10. DNA-protein hybrids for tracking and sensing biochemical cues
    Ricci lab, University of Tore Vergata Rome, Italy more…
  11. Intelligent design of artificial nucleic acid sequences (aptamers) for sensing
    Garoli lab, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy more…
  12. Predictive modelling of translocation properties of nucleic acids and protein assemblies
    Micheletti lab, SISSA Trieste, Italy more…
  13. DNA origami-directed liposome biohybrid assemblies (Linko Lab, University of Tartu, Estonia) more…
  14. Predictive modelling for nucleic acid strand displacement in hybrid settings
    Ouldridge lab, Imperial College London, UK more…
  15. Functional proteins combined with DNA-Origami assisted fluorescence enhancement for next generation sequencing GATTAquant & LMU Munich, Germany more…