Application for a PhD Scholarship
The International Doctorate Program “NanoBioTechnology” offers doctoral scholarships for outstanding graduate students, starting each year on October 1st. Successful candidates will work in the stimulating interdisciplinary environment of the 
Center for NanoScience (CeNS) based in Munich and become members of the Elite Network of Bavaria. The PhD students will be supervised by principal investigators of CeNS and will be affiliated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU), the Technical University Munich (TUM) or the University of Augsburg. The recommended duration of the PhD is 3 years.
How to Apply
Applications for the scholarships are only possible via our online application tool!
For your application, two letters of recommendation (e.g. from your Master and Bachelor supervisor) are required. You have to use the templates available for download. The letters should be sent by email to the 
program office by the referees and not by the applicant!
The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2010!
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent in either the field of physics, chemistry or life sciences
- either prepare for a Master Degree in one of the same fields to be concluded no later than 2 months before the start of the scholarship
- or hold a Master Degree or equivalent which was completed not more than 1 year before the application
- excellent grades
- a very good command of the English language
- strong scientific motivation
- interest in the activities of the doctoral program
- interest in interdisciplinary research
PhD Projects
In your online application, you have to select one PhD project you are interested in. Available projects are:
- Signal-responsive wireframe cages built from DNA (Prof. Tim Liedl) more...
- Smart Photonic Crystal Optical Sensors (Prof. Bettina Lotsch) more...
- Energy transfer in hybrid nanostructures for lasing applications (Dr. Andrey Lutich) more...
- Nanoscopy, Nanobodies, Microarrays and Epigenetics (Prof. Heinrich Leonhardt) more...
- Single Molecule Biophysics using Fluorescence Microscopy (Prof. Don Lamb) more...
- Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy on DNA origami (Prof. Philip Tinnefeld) more...
- Systemic functional analysis of gene promoters (Prof. Patrick Cramer) more...
- Biomineralization in microfluidic devices (Dr. Alexander Gigler) more...
- Surface Mediated Synthesis of 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks (Dr. Markus Lackinger) more...
- Synthesis and assembly of semiconductor oxide nanoparticles for photovoltaics (Prof. Thomas Bein) more...
- The role of stochasticity and explicit space for collective properties of bacterial populations (Prof. Erwin Frey) more...
- Living Cell Migration and Adhesion Phenomena in 3D Structures (Dr. Doris Heinrich) more...
Timeline for the application round 2010
- March 31st: Application deadline
- April: Invitations to interviews in Munich
- June 2nd: Interviews in Munich
- End of June: Final decisions on scholarships
- October 1st: Start of PhD scholarships