For the project: „Novel-engineered resources targeting holistic use of soils - NERTHUS“ to develop new strategies for promoting the diverse ecosystem services provided by agricultural soils.  TV-L 9a. Contact: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Deiglmayr. Application deadline: 15.02.2026

In close collaboration between our French partner at INRAE–LIPME and the JKI-EP: The project focuses on plant-beneficial microorganisms that mitigate the effects of drought stress and stimulate the plant immune system. Contact: Dr. Doreen Babin. Application deadline: 15.02.2025

Based in the Microbial Ecology and Diversity research group. Project: Analysis and experimental investigation of microbial communities across soil and human gut ecosystems. Funded through DFG Priority Programmes Biodiversity Exploratories and Illuminating gene functions in the human gut microbiome. Contact: Dr. Selma Vieira, Application deadline: 28.02.2026

In Environmental Microbiomes Group within the Research Unit for Comparative Microbiome Analyses at Helmholtz Munich, Project: P‑NICHE – Phosphorus mobilisation in grassland ecosystems, as part of DFG Priority Program Biodiversity Exploratories. Contact: Stefanie Schulz. Application deadline: 02.02.2026

As part of the new CRC 1756 "Chemical and Biological Principles of Cellular Trigger Responses”. Research topic: Chemical-biology tools to release, sense, and study hydrogen sulfide (H2S) as a trigger in bacterial model systems.
Contact: Prof. Dr. D. Schleheck. Application deadline: 11.02.2026

In the Aquatic Geomicrobiology working group at the Institute of Biodiversity, in the frame of the Cluster of Excellence Balance of the Microverse. Project: characterization of physiological, metabolic and molecular features of a recently cultivated vampiristic member of the CPR with its host, obtained from groundwater. Application date: 11.02.2025. Contact: Dr. Martina Herrmann. Application portal