PhD Fellowships, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany (2019)

The MPI-SHH pursues an integrative approach to the study of human history. “Hard” facts as bones, teeth, plants, stones and “soft” facts as languages, history, or religions can say a lot about human history. It is our task to understand and interpret them. The International Max Planck Research School for the Science of Human History (IMPRS-SHH) is seeking for researchers knowing well how to decode such facts and data and looking for new ways of decoding them. The IMPRS-SHH is a cooperation of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and Friedrich Schiller University, both situated in Jena, a traditional as well as a modern university town in the heart of Germany. The IMPRS-SHH is offering 16 PhD positions for 14 projects.

Being integrated into state-of-the art ongoing research at the MPI-SHH and FSU, the IMPRSSHH provides doctoral researchers a stimulating environment and optimal conditions for their PhD projects and custom-made preparation for the time thereafter, both with regard to academic and non-academic careers. We offer a clearly structured doctoral program with three pillars: a mentoring program for individual supervision by outstanding scientists, a scientific program of high academic standard, and a transferable skills program.

Participating disciplines include Agronomics, Archaeobotany, Archaeogenetics, Prehistoric Archaeology, Archaeozoology, Audiology, Bioinformatics, Comparative Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Contact Linguistics, Demographic History, Earth Sciences, Evolutionary Ecology, Genetics, Geoscience, Hearing Physiology, Historical Linguistics, History, Linguistic Palaeontology, Linguistics, Micropalaeontology, Palaeoecology, Palaeontology, Physical Anthropology, Plant Biology, Population Genetics, Psychology, Radiology, Zoology.

Among others, the following methods and subjects are important: animal cognition, cognition, communication, cooperation, DNA, domestic dogs, isotope analysis, historical comparative reconstruction, language evolution, palaeoenvironments, spatial modeling.

The language of the IMPRS-SHH is English. The graduate school provides a regularly attended coordination office supporting the PhD students from all over the world.

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PhD Fellowships, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany (2019)