The Joint European Doctoral Programme in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering (DocMASE) is an international program with the participation of universities in Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden and supported by the Erasmus Mundus program of the European commission. The DAAD will provide within its programme Graduate School Scholarship Programme (GSSP) three fully paid PhD scholarships for starting doctoral thesis work at the Saarland University in Germany from before the 1st of December (1 position) and beginning 2018 (2 positions).