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Choosing a PhD course is the first declaration you make that says you have chosen an academic career path. It is at this stage that the intensity of your studies picks up and you have moved from 'studying' to 'working'. Your main focus switches from learning about a field to researching it, pushing its boundaries, trying to uncover something new. This, of course, introduces a whole new level of challenges to your work but also makes it all the more stimulating. Doing your PhD gives you an insight into the academic world and can help you decide whether you are interested in pursuing career options at universities, in research or whether the researcher's life is just not for you. No matter what realisations it leads to, a PhD is an invaluable life experience that is a must for any burgeoning academic.

There are a number of options open to you when it comes to PhDs. Although it may seem more comfortable to stay at a university to continue your studies, it is important to remember that conducting research is also possible in industry. Finding the right PhD vacancy can seem tricky but luckily academics.com lists some of the most exciting opportunities in all kinds of research fields and it is always a good idea to use these pages as your base to see a good range of what is on offer. It is easy to forget that you have the option to choose between options that give you all sorts of different pros and cons and it is a great idea to think about whether you are passionate about fundamental research, would rather go into the applied sciences, would like to complete your doctorate while working in industry or the traditional doctorate is the best model for you.

Germany is quickly becoming the home of outstanding research in Europe and here is where academics.com excels. Although it may be intimidating to move to a new country for your PhD, working in Germany is definitely an option you should consider. The research landscape is one which is constantly evolving and embracing all types of new fields and interdisciplinary research. It is also home to a great number of the world's leading R&D companies. You can read about these options on our PhD pages so you have a guide to the possibilities open to you as well as all the top jobs so you find the perfect PhD in Germany.

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Do a PhD Find key information on structured programmes and the pros and cons of a traditional PhD, along with valuable advice on making applications and financing your studies. »

Financing Your PhD Doctoral degree courses are free of charge in Germany, but candidates still have to find ways to cover the cost of living during the doctorate. »

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Ph.D. position within the area "Iceberg and sea ice drift estimation and prediction"

Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering Department of Engineering Cybernetics A Ph.D. scholarship is offered within the area of “Iceberg and sea ice drift estimation and prediction” at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics...

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, 17 June 2013

Ph.D. scholarships of the Joachim Herz Stiftung

Outstanding doctoral candidates may also apply for the scholarships of the Joachim Herz Stiftung. The six three-year scholarships encompass a basic monthly allowance, funding for basic equipment, workshops and attendance at international conferences. Deadline for application: 30 June 2013. ...

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Universit�t Hamburg, Hamburg, 22 May 2013

Research Fellow studying aflatoxin exposure and child health (molecular epidemiology) Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biology Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK Contract Type: Fixed-term for two years and are available as soon as possible Salary: £30,424 - £39,649 per annum depending on... Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, 18 June 2013
Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in, Einsatz von Informationssystemen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsf�higkeit befristet für die Dauer von zunächst drei Jahren zu besetzen.Die Möglichkeit zur Promotion wird gegeben.Der Forschungsschwerpunkt der Juniorprofessur liegt auf dem Einsatz von Informationssystemen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von industrienahen Dienstleistungen. In... Universit�t Bremen, Bremen, 17 June 2013
PhD position "Volunteered geographical information and geovisual analytics for public health applications" Job descriptionInformation and communication technologies have greatly facilitated the acquisition, online storage and exchange of large amounts of georeferenced data by non-professionals. Activities in this relatively new domain fall in the realm of Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI), as... University of Twente, Enschede, 14 June 2013
PhD position Robust Motion Control Job descriptionCurrent motion control solutions are often suboptimal due to the strict separation of the domains involved. Our aim is to improve this situation by a close integration of the cyber and the physical part; in this way physical imperfections can be compensated by improved control and... University of Twente, Enschede, 11 June 2013
PhD scholarship in Development of Large Eddy Simulation Tools for Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary Layers in Wind Farms Fluid Mechanics Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DTU Wind Energy is seeking a PhD student within the field of “Development of Large Eddy Simulation Tools for Simulation of Atmospheric Boundary Layers in Wind Farms”. Wind turbines are today clustered in large... Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Roskilde, 11 June 2013
PhD scholarship in Modeling of Low Frequency Noise from Wind Turbines Fluid Mechanics Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU, DTU Wind Energy is seeking a PhD student within the field of “Modeling of low frequency noise from wind turbines”. In the past three decades the size of commercial wind turbines has increased from units of... Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Roskilde, 11 June 2013
PhD scholarship in Design of Large Wind Turbines using Fluid-Structure Coupling Techniques Fluid Mechanics Section at the Technical University of Denmark, DTU Wind Energy is seeking a PhD student within the field of Design of Large Wind Turbines using Fluid-Structure Coupling Techniques.In the past three decades the size of commercial wind turbines has increased from units of about 50... Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Roskilde, 11 June 2013
PhD position in coordinated control of HVDC grid and wind power plants for market integration The Department of Wind Energy in the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Wind Energy) is seeking a PhD Student for the Wind Energy Systems Section (WES). Our research is function oriented in the sense that we direct the research towards issues that are relevant for industrial development and... Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Roskilde, 11 June 2013
PhD position Cyber-Physical Co-design for safety-critical systems Job descriptionThe design of embedded systems for safety-critical applications is still too time consuming and costly. Further, the combination of embedded system and physical part is not properly covered in model-driven design approaches, causing issues at system integration, especially when... University of Twente, Enschede, 10 June 2013
PhD Fellowships Chemical Biology The University of Konstanz, with its institutional strategy to promote Top-Level Research, has been receiving continuous funding since 2007 within the framework of the Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments. Konstanz Research School Chemical Biology: Research and Graduate... University of Konstanz, Konstanz, 6 June 2013
PhD: Self-Healing Thermal Barrier Coatings Faculty/department: Aerospace Engineering Level: Master degree Maximum employment Maximum of 38 hours per week Duration of contract: 4 years Salary scale €2062 to €2638 per month Gross Job description Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) systems are applied to gas turbine... TU Delft, Delft, 5 June 2013
Project Manager (f/m) at the Centre for Structural and Systems Biology (CSSB) DESY is one of the world’s leading centres for the investigation of the structure of matter. DESY develops, runs and uses accelerators and detectors for photon science and particle physics. The Centre for Structural and Systems Biology (CSSB) is being established on the DESY-University-Campus... Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, 3 June 2013
PhD Student Position in Information Security The NISlab invites excellent candidates to participate in developing its activities in computational forensics and automated analysis of big data. The candidate will work at the Testimon Forensics Laboratory, one of the focus laboratory at GUC dedicated to Digital and Computational Forensics.... Gj�vik University College, Gj�vik, 30 May 2013
Doctoral Fellowships in Solvation Science (m/f) The Cluster of Excellence RESOLV (Ruhr Explores Solvation), in conjunction with the newly founded Graduate School of Solvation Science (GSS), is looking for top-class graduate students with an interest in the field of solvation science. The candidates should have a first-class Master’s Degree... Ruhr Universit�t Bochum, Bochum, 27 May 2013
PhD Student in Computing Science The Department of Computing Science is looking for a PhD student within the project Syntactical methods for text classification. Text classification is a central task in language technology with applications in sentiment analysis, plagiarism detection, spam filters, authorship attribution,... Ume� University, Ume�, 27 May 2013
PhD position Smart Radio Access Job descriptionThe scope of the Smart Radio Access project is the development of mobile radio access standards that offer improved capacity, data rates and reliability. Particularly, the project investigates the application of network coding concepts to the evolution of the LTE standard. Network... University of Twente, Enschede, 17 May 2013
Doctoral Fellowships in the fields of aesthetic perception and evaluation of music, language and literature for interdisciplinary research projects in the fields of aesthetic perception and evaluation of music, language and literature. The grants are for a period of three years with a possible extension of up to one year and are awarded to musicologists, literary scholars, linguists, psychologists,... Max-Planck-Institut f�r empirische �sthetik, Frankfurt am Main, 2 May 2013