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Innovation & Startup

You are interested in learning about business startup and innovation topics? Check out PIER events and activities in this field.

PIER Research Funding

PIER offers funding for seed projects, joint workshops or short visits of international colleagues in your field.

PIER Education Platform

Transferable skills for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

Language courses

German and English courses for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

PHGS Travel Awards for doctoral researchers

Outstanding doctoral researchers of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) can apply for a PHGS Travel Award to pay for travel to and participation in scientific events. Find out more...

Forms and info Sheets for doctoral researchers of the PHGS

Here you can find all templates and information sheets that are important for your membership in the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School.

Buddy Programme for new doctoral researchers of the PHGS

You are a new international doctoral sresearcher and would like support during your first time in Hamburg? You are an experienced doctoral researcher and would like to support a new international doctoral researcher? Register here.

Registration membership PIER Helmholtz Graduate School

You are starting a doctorate at DESY or Universität Hamburg and want to become a member of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School? Here you can sign up.

Curriculum PIER Helmholtz Graduate School

The PHGS curriculum is the core of the education of our members and is the basis for the PHGS Certificate and Transcript of Records.

Calls, prizes and funding for doctoral researchers

Funding for research activities

Various institutions offer additional funding for stays abroad, graduation funding, performance prizes, special support for women, etc. In the following you will find an overview of current calls for proposals that PHGS is aware of.

Overview of funding and exchange programs of University of Hamburg (UHH) for activities, mobilities and projects with international partners of the UHH
University of Hamburg - Travel Subsidy
Funding of the MIN Graduate Center (MINGZ) of University of Hamburg (UHH) conference stays abroad | research stays abroad | insight visits
EU Research Fundings - EU Project Office (EUP) at DESY
Support for early career researchers at University of Hamburg
Joachim Herz Stiftung: Add-on Scholarships for Interdisciplinary Life Science
PIER Seed Projects funding for creative, innovative and unusual research ideas
PIER Workshops funding for international guest stays in Hamburg
PIER Short Visits funding for scientific and network workshops, scientific speed dating, idea-finding workshops, etc.
Fullbright Germany (for Germans only)

Open positions & scholarships

All members of the PHGS must bring their own funding. Most members of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) have an employment contract with DESY or the University of Hamburg or receive a scholarship from an external institution. In the following you will find an overview of job offers from DESY, the University of Hamburg and their partner institutions for graduates interested in doing a doctorate.


DESY

List of all open positions at DESY: Jobs at DESY Hamburg.


University of Hamburg Hamburg (UHH)

List of all open positions at the University of Hamburg. For science jobs scroll down to the drop-down menu "Wissenschaftliches Personal" and then "Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften". Some of the job offers are in German only. Open positions at the UHH.


European XFEL

All open positions and information on the application process at the European XFEL can be found here: European XFEL job offers.


Center for Free-ELectron Laser Science (CFEL)

The CFEL encpompasses different research groups and research fields. Please check the websites of the different research groups and fields for open positions: CFEL academic opportunities.


Cluster of Excellence "The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging" (CUI)

The CUI Cluster advertises their vacancies via the job database of the University of Hamburg and here.


Cluster of Excellence: Quantum Universe

The Quantum Universe Cluster of Excellence announces their open positions on the DESY website, the website of the University of Hamburg and here.


Doctoral scholarships at the University of Hamburg

In this database one will find all scholarships granted at the University of Hamburg. Find more information here.


Scholarship database of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

In this database one will find information about our DAAD scholarship programmes for international doctoral researchers and students as well as offers from other selected funding organisations. Find more information in the scholarship database.