And give your work a purpose. Our future needs talented minds like yours. It needs new ways of generating and storing energy, new concepts and improved materials for aerospace, sophisticated automation and networking in key areas, and the development of quantum computers in Germany. What expertise can you contribute?
As a researcher at DLR, you will have access to a unique research infrastructure consisting of laboratories, simulators, test stands and other large-scale research facilities. You will also work on topics that are highly relevant for society. With enough freedom for your ideas, you will work with motivated colleagues to devise solutions to the pressing scientific and technical challenges of tomorrow’s world.
Shape the future with us. Yours and that of us all.
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large-scale research facilities are available for research at DLR. And the largest civilian research fleet in Europe.
(Pioneering work + relevant topics)² × benefits = your entry formula at DLR
Take Alexander Fieguth, for example. The experimental physicist is delighted to be working in the Institute for Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing at the cutting edge of technological developments at DLR. In the INTENTAS project, he is working on improving the sensitivity of atom interferometers and atomic clocks. What can be achieved? “Already today, atomic clocks in space and on Earth deliver highly precise time signals to support navigation systems such as Galileo. But improved atom interferometers can also enable extremely precise navigation without satellites,” Alexander explains. Or high-precision measurements of Earth’s gravitational field: “This can be used to improve climate models or our understanding of the composition of the Earth, among other things.”
What can you look forward to at DLR?
The unique infrastructure of a research organisation
Space for high-quality scientific work
A well-equipped workplace
An open and motivating working environment
Home office and remote working
Socially relevant projects and goals
Personalised further training opportunities
A stable and secure workplace
Security, company pension scheme and other benefits of a public organisation
Nadine Laska from the DLR Institute of Materials Research is also helping to shape the future. The graduate chemist is improving the air transport industry’s carbon footprint with her work on protective coatings for high-temperature applications: “The use of lighter materials or new fuels in aircraft contributes to more sustainable aviation and ultimately reduces the contribution to climate change. Protective coatings are necessary to enable use at higher temperatures and/or to extend the service life of components such as turbine blades. This leads to a more sustainable use of resources and raw materials.”
How can renewable energy carriers and resources enable the production of fuels and raw materials?
What are the interactions between space weather and the technological infrastructure on Earth and in space?
How can we efficiently collect, analyse and process data?
How do we develop highly porous carbon aerogels?
How do we automatically detect traffic objects in aerial and satellite images?
How do we develop efficient electrochemical batteries, fuel cells and electrolysers for future energy systems in both stationary energy supply and electromobility?
How do we build the first operational quantum computer in Germany that can process huge amounts of data in complex calculations or simulations?
What conditions do we need to create to enable the cultivation of food beyond Earth?
VIDEO: Living science – DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics
"For me it is crazy"
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"For me it is crazy"
VIDEO: Living science – DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics
