Open doctoral positions

The online application tool will open in early December 2025.


All positions will be funded by for a maximum of 36 months.

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

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