• You can apply for the DESY fellowship programme, if you have completed your Ph.D. To be eligible, you have to take up the position at the latest 5 years after your doctorate.
• You can also apply for the DESY fellowship programme, if your PhD thesis has been just submitted and an appointment for your thesis defense has been set up. But in this case you can be officially employed only after the doctorate procedure has been successfully completed (PhD certificate might be submitted as soon as possible thereafter).

Applications will be reviewed twice a year; the deadlines for the submission of applications are 31 March and 30 September.

• Cover letter with a short research resume
• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications
• Copies of university degrees
• Please arrange three letters of recommendation, which are supposed to be sent together with application documents

All your documents have to be sent to the DESY HR department via our career portal.

The selection process starts shortly after the application deadline and it takes two months to evaluate all applications, conduct interviews and to make a decision. Approximately 2 months after the application deadline, all candidates selected by the review panel will receive notification of their placement.

We would appreciate an early response indicating starting date from the selected candidate (The start date should be within the next 6 months).

Once all administrative issues concerning the fellow contract and terms of employment for the successful applicant have been treated (and it takes a further month) the selected fellow can start to work at DESY. Thus, the earliest start date is approximately one month and the latest start date is 6 after the notification of placement.

All other applicants will be notified that they were unsuccessful within 4 months after the deadline.

No, you can apply in English

Your based location is DESY either in Hamburg or in Zeuthen, but if in the frame of your researching project some business trips are required, such as to CERN, they will be permitted.

DESY Fellowships are awarded for duration of two years with a possibility of a prolongation by one additional year.

The salary for the fellowship is according to tariffs applicable for the public segment. Classification in the payment system is based upon qualifications; the default assumption is pay group E13/III of the relevant collective wage agreement "TV-AVH". The gross salary in this case is 4.824,60€, which is paid 12,6 times a year. Applicants with more than 3 years of relevant professional experience after their Ph.D. will be paid according to the pay group E13/IV (5.235,66€). However, deductions for tax, health insurance etc. have to be done in frame of German regulations and depend on your personal status (single, married, children, etc.. )

You can start to work within 6 months after notification of placement from DESY. We would appreciate your early response indicating starting date.

Yes, during the first two weeks you can choose your favorite researching project, and a particular group among the HEP activities of DESY. The final decision will be taken in consultation with the research director.

In case of approved business trips, travel expenses to workshops or to conferences will be reimbursed by DESY.

There are no teaching obligations

Yes, if you still meet all of the application requirements.

Common administrative Support: Anita Teufel

DESY International Office will be glad to assist you with any visa query you may have.