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Postdoctoral Researchers

Establish your research profile in our stimulating research environment, amongst internationally renowned scientists, and benefit from the career development opportunities designed to foster your scientific independence.

Mathematics Müster offers a dynamic and supportive environment with regular seminars, workshops and conferences, providing ample networking and collaboration opportunities. We offer a range of resources and services to support career development, including travel grants, funding for organising conferences, mentoring programmes and career counselling. 

Postdoctoral researchers are an integral part of our reseach community: of our approximately 60 postdoctoral researchers roughly 65 % have an international background. The supportive environment is an ideal stepping stone for early-career researchers: ~80 % of our postdoctoral researchers continue working in academic research and teaching, and of those, more than 65 % have taken up a permanent or temporary professorship or teaching appointment within the past five years.

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Young Research Groups

Young Research Groups (YRG) are offered for up to four years and consist of two or three postdocs, who work jointly on an independent project relevant to the research programme of Mathematics Münster. Applications will be announced in autumn.

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MATHRIX Assistant Professorship Programme

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science has set up the MATHRIX Assistant Professorship Programme to support gender equality in the mathematical sciences. Six assistant professorships (Juniorprofessuren) have been established. The professorships are for three years with the possibility of an extension for another three years upon positive evaluation. It comes with an attractive start-up package.

Independence and Collaboration

Establish your own research profile 

  • Join MM on one of our open‑topic and project-based research positions or as a Young Research Group.
  • Bridge the gaps by collaborating with more than one research group.
  • Aim for high-impact grant proposals backed through MM's "Start-up funds for emerging projects".

Strengthen your scientific network

  • Organise conferences with the funding of the Young Mathematician Conference Network.
  • Invite guests: Through the Young Research Fellow Programme and the Visiting Doctoral Researcher Programme, you can invite young researchers to consolidate collaborations and initiate new projects.
  • Get mobility funds: Mathematics Münster provides travel funds for you to engage in international collaborations and attend conferences.
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Behind the science

The "Postdoc Paper Talks" feature MM postdocs talking about their published papers. In the interviews, they share insights into their findings and their path to solutions. 

In our podcast "On a Tangent" early career mathematician from MM talk about their research, their path towards science, and their hopes for the future.

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Exchange experiences and broaden the horizon

Postdoc Mentoring provides guidance in the postdoc's academic endeavours by a mentor chosen among the professors of the mathematical institutes.

Beyond Maths compiles talks, seminars, and workshops on non-mathematical topic to complement the mathematical education and broaden the horizon.

Breaking down barriers

Mathematics Münster is a hub for all researchers – united by their passion for mathematics.

We welcome people of all genders, cultural or religious backgrounds or world views, social backgrounds, mental or physical abilities, sexual orientations, ages, ethnicities, nationalities or other aspects of diversity. We aim to increase gender equity on all levels and support under-represented groups though or equity and diversity measues. 

Enhancing the compatibility of academic work and family life, providing structural and financial support that eases the career-family balance for researchers is one of the goals of Mathematics Münster and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Further opportunities at the University of Münster

The Welcome Centre is the main advice and service centre for all internationally mobile researchers (postdoc level and higher) and staff. They provide support before, during and after your stay at the University of Münster.

Third-party funding expertise: The SAFIR research funding advisory service advises and supports with regard to acquisition and strategic use of third-party funding.

Higher education teaching: Offers of the Centre for Higher Education Teaching with course programmes and various advisory services, including competence enhancement for digital teaching-learning formats.

Graduate Centre: The Münster Centre for Emerging Researchers (CERes) is the general offering of the University of Münster to support early-career researchers through training programmes such as good scientific practice.