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September 18, 2025

**Job Description**
The International Max Planck Research School for Sustainable Metallurgy offers a three-year doctoral program focused on sustainable metallurgy, conducted entirely in English. The program aims to discover sustainable materials and develop innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions during synthesis, enhance material durability, and improve recycling processes. It emphasizes an intensive interdisciplinary approach, exploring cutting-edge methods in chemical, mechanical, and plasma processing of metal ores for a circular economy, correlating experimental, ab initio, multi-scale simulation, and machine learning techniques.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Very good English knowledge
• Computational background (particularly encouraged)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Materials Science
• Physics
• Engineering
• Chemistry

**Experience**
Other:
• Excellent master’s degree

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Experience
Other: • Excellent master's degree
Work Level
Ph.D
Employment Type
Scholarship
Salary
Annual Salary: At Max Planck Institutes: approx. €39,000 gross per year At University Duisburg-Essen: approx. €39,000 gross per year At Ruhr University Bochum: €2,050 net per month (scholarship) Position Classification: TVöD 13 65% (Max Planck Institutes), TV-L 13 65% (University Duisburg-Essen)
Valid Until
October 31, 2025
Details
Temporary Duration: 3 years Brief location description: Germany's vibrant Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region
School / Department / Center / Lab
• International Max Planck Research School for Sustainable Metallurgy • Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials • Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung • Ruhr University Bochum • University of Duisburg-Essen
Supervisor Email
elke.lorenz@mpie.de
University of Duisburg-Essen
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