Open PhD positions
Explore our open PhD stipend and Research Associate positions.
Explore our open PhD stipend and Research Associate positions.
Applications accepted all year round.
Apply to join the Hertie School's Doctoral Programme in Governance with external funding. If your application is successful, you will receive conditional admission, contingent upon your securing external funding.
Information on the application process can be found here.
Deadline: 31 January 2025
Hertie School’s Data Science Lab is looking for PhD proposals in computational social science, in various methodological and substantive areas.
Deadline: 31 January 2025
We are looking for PhD proposals in the research area of ‘Polarization and the Need to Strengthen Democracy: an Organizational Perspective’.
Deadline: 31 January 2025
We are looking for an excellent master graduate in the Social Sciences or related disciplines willing to undertake doctoral research at the Hertie School in the area of Fundamental Rights.
The PhD candidate will be affiliated with Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights, starting in September 2025.
Deadline: 31 January 2025
We are looking for an excellent master graduate in the Social Sciences or related disciplines willing to undertake doctoral research at the Hertie School in the area of International Security.
The PhD candidate will be affiliated with Hertie School’s Centre for International Security, starting in September 2025.
Deadline: 30 November 2024
We are looking for two Research Associates as part of the international research project “Renewing Administration through Democratic Anchorage Reforms” (RADAR) which aims to enhance the legitimacy and democratic governance of public services and public administrations. The researchers will be affiliated with the Hertie School's Centre for Digital Governance.
Successful candidates may be enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Governance as of September 2025.
2 Doctoral Researchers – European Union Law & Politics (Prof. Mark Dawson, PhD)
The positions are part of a Research Group on “Reconfiguring Europe. Between Competence and Control” funded by the Deurtsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), deadline 30 September.
Successful applicants may be enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Governance as of February 2025.
PhD position, affiliated with the Centre for International Security, starting in September 2024.
The independent dissertation research project should be related to the project Raising the Nuclear IQ for a New Nuclear Age.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid is looking for a Doctoral Research Associate on AI adoption within government.
Successful applicants may be enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Governance as of September 2024.
Prof. Dr. Simon Munzert is looking for a Doctoral Research Associate as part of the DFG Research Project "Election Forecasts for the German Federal Election 2025."
Successful applicants may be enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Governance as of September 2024.
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid is looking for a Doctoral Research Associate for the project "AI in German Government."
Successful applicants may be enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Governance as of September 2024.
Prof. Mark Kayser, PhD, is looking for 2 Doctoral Research Associates as part of the DFG Research Project "Issue Voting over the Business Cycle."
Successful applicants may be enrolled in the Doctoral Programme in Governance as of September 2024.
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