Prof. Friedrich Simmel, Physics Department, Technische Universität München (TUM)

The European School of DNA Nanotechnology (EScoDNA) is announcing PhD positions at the Center for NanoScience Munich. The applicant for this project should hold a master (or equivalent) in (bio-)physics or (bio-)chemistry. She/He ideally has previous experience with single molecule techniques and a solid background in statistical physics, reaction kinetics, and stochastic processes.

EScoDNA
The PhD position is part of the European School of DNA Nanotechnology (EScoDNA), an Initial Training Network (ITN) under the European Commission's Marie Curie Actions research fellowship programme. EScoDNA will foster the development of a new generation of scientists with the skills required to meet futures challenges in bionanotechnology, from fundamental science to novel applications. Initially fourteen new PhD students and two postdoctoral fellows will join the network in 2013. The participating universities are: Aarhus University (Denmark), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Technical University of Munich (Germany),Karolinska Institute (Sweden),University of Oxford (UK) and the private companies Vipergen ApS (Denmark) and baseclick GmbH (Germany).

Applicants are expected to have lived less than 12 months in Germany during the last 3 years.

More information about the group:
Prof. Simmel's website