How to join us!

Here are some infor­ma­ti­on, if you would like to join us:

for your doctorate/PhD

First, plea­se con­sider that we do not offer a struc­tu­red PhD pro­gram! So, if you want to pur­sue a PhD at our depart­ment, it would have to be an indi­vi­du­al doc­to­ra­te. You can find basic infor­ma­ti­on on the indi­vi­du­al doc­to­ra­te e.g. on the Rese­arch in Ger­ma­ny web­site. In gene­ral, the­re are two pos­si­bi­li­ties to do a doc­to­ra­te at our department:

  • a rese­arch assistant position
  • a scho­lar­schip

From time to time we have vacan­ci­es for paid rese­arch assistant posi­ti­ons. We are then loo­king for moti­va­ted employees who want to work in our fields of rese­arch nume­ri­cal­ly and/or expe­ri­men­tal­ly. Your tasks would include the hand­ling of rese­arch pro­jects, but also clo­se coope­ra­ti­on with indus­tri­al part­ners and the imple­men­ta­ti­on of indus­tri­al pro­jects. A par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on in tea­ching, e.g. con­duc­ting tuto­ri­als or super­vi­sing lab cour­ses, is also part of your acti­vi­ties. The pos­si­bi­li­ty of a doc­to­ra­te is part of your work at the department.

If no posi­ti­ons for rese­arch assistants are available, you can app­ly for a scho­lar­schip e.g. from the DAAD or from other scho­lar­schip pro­vi­ders. Howe­ver, if you would like to pur­sue this opti­on, plea­se get in cont­act with us ear­ly on to dis­cuss your ide­as for a rese­arch pro­po­sal and if the­re are free capa­ci­ties to super­vi­se your doctorate.

The pre­re­qui­si­te for both opti­ons is a gra­dua­te level uni­ver­si­ty degree in engi­nee­ring or phy­sics. Know­ledge in the field of flu­id mecha­nics, ther­mo­dy­na­mics, metall­ur­gy, com­bus­ti­on tech­no­lo­gy or heat trans­fer is an advan­ta­ge. Inde­pen­dent sci­en­ti­fic and team-ori­en­ted work as well as good Eng­lish skills and the wil­ling­ness to learn Ger­man are required.

as a visiting researcher

We alre­a­dy had the plea­su­re to host a num­ber of visi­ting rese­ar­chers, e.g. from Fin­land and South Korea, and are always open to dis­cuss pos­si­bi­li­ties of a rese­arch stay at our depart­ment. Plea­se feel free to cont­act us, if you are inte­res­ted in our work and would like to dis­cuss a rese­arch visit.