Postdoctoral Researcher Positions in Statistical Physics and Active Matter Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany

[Full-time PhD position funded at 2/3 of E13 TVöD Bund for three years.] The LMP department at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization is offering PhD positions in Statistical Physics and Active Matter . The research is led by Prof. Dr. Ramin Golestanian and is centered on theoretical work that seeks to understand the dynamics of living systems from a physical perspective. PhD researchers will carry out theoretical and/or computational research in nonequilibrium statistical p...

Postdoctoral position in Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany. The research group led by Sarah Loos works on statistical physics beyond equilibrium , including active matter, glassy dynamics, memory effects in nonequilibrium systems, optimal control strategies for active matter, and non-reciprocal phase transitions. The group studies energy and entropy flows, dynamical features, and the relationship between thermo...

A 2-year funded postdoctoral position is available in the DATA team at the Département d’Informatique, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, within the ANR-funded MAGICALL project: Mathematics of generative models: an interdisciplinary analysis of loss function landscapes . The project focuses on the theory and mathematical foundations of generative models, with particular emphasis on loss landscapes and high-dimensional learning. The DATA team develops foundational mathematical and algorithmic...

The PhD project focuses on the study of active matter systems, which are composed of individual units that consume energy to generate motion or mechanical forces, resulting in collective organization and behavior. Active matter is a rapidly growing field in physics, with examples ranging from bacterial colonies and cytoskeletons driven by molecular motors to motile cells in tissues and self-propelled particles. These systems are inherently out of equilibrium due to continuous energy injection at...

Roland Aydin, Full Professor (W3) at Saarland University, is recruiting multiple fully funded PhD and postdoctoral researchers to work on Foundation Models and Agentic AI for Physical Systems . The positions focus on developing AI systems that can reason about scientific problems, interact with simulations, and accelerate discovery in science and engineering. Research directions include LLMs & Scientific Agents , AI for Scientific Computing , Autonomous Engineering Design , Multimodal Scientific...