{"id":2449,"date":"2025-09-12T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:16:01","slug":"max-planck-research-group-leader-call-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/2025\/09\/12\/max-planck-research-group-leader-call-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Planck Research Group Leader &#8211; call now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/09\/images.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1268\" style=\"width:225px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/09\/images.png 225w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/09\/images-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2024\/09\/images-220x220.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Max Planck Society<\/a> <\/strong>is currently looking for new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/career\/max-planck-research-groups\/applications\">Max Planck Research Group Leaders<\/a><\/strong> and is inviting applications from all scientists with a doctorate working in any field of research pursued in the organization to support emerging scholars early in their career path. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Successful candidates will <strong>lead their own independent Max Planck Research Group<\/strong> at a participating Max Planck Institute of their own choice for a <strong>period of six years<\/strong>. An extension of up to three more years is possible and subject to a positive evaluation as well as the respective legal regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Max Planck Research Group Leader, you will enjoy a world-class research environment at a Max Planck Institute with state-of-the-art infrastructure, administrative support, and the intellectual freedom to pursue an original research programme. Your funding package covers a W2 position in accordance with remuneration group W2 Federal Civil Service Remuneration Act (equivalent to assistant or non-tenured associate professor), resources for the hiring of scientific staff, and a generous budget for equipment and consumables. The total allocation for a Max Planck Re\u00adsearch Group amounts to up to 2.7 million euros for the initial six years. <strong>Start of funding is October 2026<\/strong> at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <strong>further information how to apply<\/strong> and what you need to submit for your application, <strong>please check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/career\/max-planck-research-groups\/applications\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/career\/max-planck-research-groups\/applications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the official homepage<\/a><\/strong> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/20107869\/faq-call-for-mprg-2025\"><strong>FAQs<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/en\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Max Planck Society<\/a> <\/strong>is currently looking for new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpg.de\/career\/max-planck-research-groups\/applications\">Max Planck Research Group Leaders<\/a><\/strong> and is inviting applications from all scientists with a doctorate working in any field of research pursued in the organization to support emerging scholars early in their career path. <\/p>\n<p>Successful candidates will <strong>lead their own independent Max Planck Research Group<\/strong> at a participating Max Planck Institute of their own choice for a <strong>period of six years<\/strong>. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/2025\/09\/12\/max-planck-research-group-leader-call-now-open\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,210],"tags":[218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}