The Graduate School Scholarship Program (GSSP) at the Abbe School of Photonics, generously supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), invites talented and ambitious individuals to embark on a transformative journey in the field of Photonics. This program offers an exceptional opportunity for aspiring scholars to pursue their PhD studies in Germany, commencing in the summer or autumn of 2024.
The GSSP is open to non-German nationals who hold or are about to obtain a master’s degree in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field with sufficient exposure to photonics. The Master’s degree should not be older than 6 years, and candidates must not have resided in Germany for more than 15 months before the nomination.
Application Deadline: January 7, 2024
Offered Benefits
- Monthly installment of 1,300 EUR
- Annual travel allowance
- Payments towards health, accident, and personal liability insurance
- Preliminary German language course
- Scholarship duration: 36 months, with possible extension for another 12 months
PhD Topics 2024:
- Optical computing with cavity solitons
- Raman-spectroscopic characterization of immune cell activation
- Plasmonic Virus-Receptor Binding Assays
- Ultrafast molecular dynamics
- Extreme Ultraviolet Metaoptics for Nanoscale Imaging and Attosecond Physics
- Quantum nonlinear optics in hybrid systems with absorption
- Real-time super-resolution microscopy enabled by neuromorphic vision sensors
Application Procedure Timeline:
- January 7, 2024: Abbe School of Photonics application deadline
- 03/2024: Pre-selection announcement of the Abbe School of Photonics
- 04/2024: Official candidate nomination by the DAAD
- 08/2024: Approximate start of DAAD German language course in Germany
- 10/2024: Approximate start of the PhD research work at the Abbe School of Photonics in Jena, Germany
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