PhD Fellowships in Physics

We want to give doctoral students the opportunity to conduct research in an attractive and international environment together with renowned scientists. They should be given the opportunity to work at an innovative local research infrastructure as well as to participate in large-scale experiments worldwide as part of a large research community.

The selected candidates will get a funding contract as well as individual travel and research funds. They can participate in all MPA activities, including lecture courses, seminars, retreats, summer schools, workshops and social events.

For the 2024 application call, we offer the following PhD topics:

• Searches for ultralight bosonic fields (Prof. Dr. Dmitry Budker)
• Novel techniques in magnetometry and magnetic resonance (Prof. Dr. Dmitry Budker)
• NA62 experiment: Search for New Physics in rare and ultra-rare Kaon decays (Dr. Rainer Wanke)
• SHiP experiment: Calorimeter development and construction (Prof. Dr. Volker Büscher)
• Development of Project 8’s atomic tritium source (Prof. Dr. Sebastian Böser, Prof. Dr. Martin Fertl)
• Determination of the free neutron lifetime with the tSPECT experiment (Prof. Dr. Martin Fertl)
• High energy physics with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC (Prof. Dr. Lucia Masetti, Prof. Dr. Volker Büscher, Prof. Dr. Stefan Tapprogge)
• Experimental neutrino physics at DUNE (Prof. Dr. Alfons Weber)
• Effective Field Theory for Non-Global Observables at Hadron Colliders (Prof. Dr. Matthias Neubert)
• Precision calculations and Feynman integrals (Prof. Dr. Stefan Weinzierl)
• Nuclear reactions involving halo nuclei (Prof. Dr. Pierre Capel)
• Electron-induced dissociation of nuclei applied to astrophysical reactions (Prof. Dr. Pierre Capel)
• Eikonal description of reactions involving exotic nuclei (Prof. Dr. Pierre Capel)
• Precision calculations for the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD (Prof. Dr. Hartmut Wittig)

Applicants must demonstrate outstanding performance in their studies and are expected to hold or obtain a Masters’ degree in physics, preferably in the areas of particle, low-energy and hadron physics.

For more information about the positions and application, please visit https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/mainz-physics-academy/phd-fellowship-pr…