Research Associate / PhD student and Postdoc positions (m/f/x)

starting April 1, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The positions are limited to 36 months. The period of employment is governed by the Fixed Term Research Contracts Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz - WissZeitVG). The positions offer the chance to obtain further academic qualification (usually PhD / habilitation thesis). Balancing family and career is an important issue. All full-time positions are generally suitable for candidates seeking part-time employment. Please indicate your request in your application. The working time is 75% or 100% of the full-time weekly hours, depending on position and institution. The TRR404 is a Collaborative Research Center/Transregio between TUD Dresden University of Technology and Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen). It aims at exploring a completely new approach for microelectronics technology. Therefore, it teams up materialists, electrical engineers, and computer scientists of TUD, RWTH Aachen and Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mikro- und Optoelektronik mbH (AMO) in Aachen, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics Halle (MPI-MSP), Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory gGmbH (NaMLab) in Dresden, and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB). The initial funding phase is from April 2025 until December 2028. What you can expect: A varied and challenging research task, embedded in a friendly, inclusive and supportive team of the TRR-s Principal Investigators (i.e., project leaders and supervisors). We maintain an open and cooperative work attitude with maximum personal responsibility, mutual support with a solution-oriented approach, and flexible working hours where possible. As a PhD student you will be integrated in the TRR-s Graduate School. It will offer tailored educational programs and individual supervision agreements. What we expect: above-average degree achieved in short study period, willingness and ability to think beyond the boundaries of your field, to act in an international and diverse environment and to live an open and constructive communication, strong analytic and problem-solving skills, creativity, an independent, target- and solution-driven work attitude, fluency in English, knowledge of German would be a plus. Full details of all vacancies can be found here: