The Department of Experimental Physics I (Physics of living matter) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany invites applications for a

PhD position (f/m/d)

to be commenced in summer/fall 2026 (flexible starting date, fixed-term contract of initially four years, salary according to TV-L). The topic of the thesis will be embedded in ongoing projects on the physics of cell migration and intracellular transport. In general, our research is focused on elucidating and quantifying physico-chemical principles of dynamic self-organization and transport processes in soft and living matter on different length and time scales. This includes, for example, anomalous diffusion processes in crowded media far away from thermal equilibrium, the formation and homeostasis of cellular organelles, or the dynamic self-organization of cells on structured substrates and during embryogenesis. To this end, we mainly employ advanced light microscopy methods (e.g. partially custo...