Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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Why Germany

There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

Oldest genetically examined specimen: Nepalese sandwort (Arenaria globiflora). Herbarium specimen from Kew, collected in the Himalayas in 1829.

Largest family tree of flowering plants created

A large international research team including a scientist from the University of Bayreuth has created the most comprehensive family tree of flowering plants to date. This family tree is based on 15 times more data than all previous ones and also includes extinct and endangered species.

May 3, 2024, 3:34:13 PM

Reusable vs. portion packaging: Food lost must be taken into account.

Coffee milk in the catering industry: Reusable or portion packaging

A new EU regulation* provides for a ban on small individual packaging made from disposable plastic for coffee creamers. These consist of a polystyrene base film and an aluminum lid, both of which are usually incinerated after use. An alternative in the hospitality industry, e.g. in bakeries, cafés or in the travel sector, are reusable solutions. Fraunhofer UMSICHT carried out a life cycle assessment for the company frischli Milchwerke to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of reusable solutions such as ceramic jugs or thermos flasks compared to individual packaging.

May 3, 2024, 3:14:08 PM

Dr Agnes Piecyk and Dr Johannes Zimmermann investigated how the colonisation and composition of the microbiome develops during the lifetime of the nematode C. elegans.

The microbiome changes dynamically and favours important host-relevant functions

An interdisciplinary research team from the CRC 1182 is investigating the processes that control microbiome composition in host organisms using roundworms as example

May 3, 2024, 3:14:06 PM

MCC-led research team quantifies the “gap” in carbon removal for the first time

Since 2010, the United Nations environmental organisation UNEP has taken an annual measurement of the emissions gap: the difference between countries’ climate protection pledges and what would be necessary to limit global heating to 1.5 (or at least below 2) degrees. The UNEP Emissions Gap Reports are clear: climate policy needs more ambition. A new study now explicitly applies this analytical concept to carbon dioxide removal – the extraction of the most important greenhouse gas, CO₂, from the atmosphere.

May 3, 2024, 1:54:31 PM

Prof. Dr. Martin Sommer, Senior consultant and head of the

Real-time MRI reveals the movement dynamics of stuttering

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (MPI-NAT) have succeeded in visualizing the movement patterns of the internal speech muscles of a stuttering patient using real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The method helps to improve our understanding of the mechanical aspects of stuttering, to identify muscle malfunctions in speech disorders, and to aid in the acquisition and reinforcement of new speech patterns. The results have been published in the Clinical Pictures section of the renowned journal The Lancet.

May 3, 2024, 11:14:19 AM

Climate change threatens Mountain Meadows

Mountain meadows are unique ecosystems. A research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered that climate change reduces the humus content as well as the nitrogen stores in the grassland soils of the Alps and disturbs the soil structure. Organic fertilization, for example with liquid manure, can compensate this loss of soil organic matter to some extent.

May 3, 2024, 10:05:00 AM