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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.

Climate Change and Air Pollution Could Risk 30 Million Lives Annually by 2100

New study projects a sharp rise in temperature- and pollution-related mortality, with the impact of temperature surpassing that of pollution for a fifth of the global population.

Nov 20, 2024, 5:32:44 PM

Research team develops novel biomimetic speaking valve technology

A research team from the University of Freiburg and the Medical Center- University of Freiburg has developed a novel biomimetic speaking valve technology that could significantly increase the safety of tracheostomised patients.

Nov 20, 2024, 2:15:00 PM

Dr. Ksenia Fedosova presents an example of the equations from the work published in PNAS.

A new puzzle piece for string theory research

Dr. Ksenia Fedosova from the Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster, along with an international research team, has proven a conjecture in string theory that physicists had proposed regarding certain equations. Their findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Nov 20, 2024, 10:04:17 AM

Five millimetre long herring larvae grow into juveniles about ten centimetres long after a year.

Climate change can cause stress in herring larvae

The occurrence of multiple stressors undermines the acclimatisation strategies of juvenile herring: If larvae are exposed to several stress factors at the same time, their ability to respond to these changes at the molecular level is reduced. Experiments by a team from the northern German cities of Oldenburg and Kiel show that a combination of two factors is sufficient to prevent a reaction.

Nov 20, 2024, 9:52:10 AM

Test plot with sustainable grassland use in the GCEF field experiment overseen by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Bad Lauchstädt. The roof structures simulate future climate conditions such as summer drought and warming.

Soil ecosystem more resilient when land managed sustainably

Compared to intensive land use, sustainable land use allows better control of underground herbivores and soil microbes. As a result, the soil ecosystem is more resilient and better protected from disturbance under sustainable management than under intensive land use. Researchers from Leipzig University, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and other research institutions found that the total energy flux and the activities of so-called decomposers, herbivores and predators in the soil food web remained stable. They have just published their paper in the journal Global Change Biology.

Nov 19, 2024, 4:31:13 PM