Visitors Program

The Visitors Program offers research positions ranging from a few weeks to two years in duration. Guest scientists can become members of research groups at the institute, can do joint research with other guest scientists, or can start collaborations with workshop and seminar participants. Further possibilities of collaboration include contacts with the Technical University Dresden or other local research institutions.
Especially addressed are

• PhD students,
• young postdoctoral researchers (as a rule, postdoc positions are limited to one year with a possible extension for another year),
• senior scientists for short-term and sabbatical visits, as well as researchers participating in the institute's programs, seminars and workshops.

In addition to the regular positions of the Visitors Program, the institute annually offers a Distinguished PKS Postdoctoral Fellowship (deadline for application is January 31, 2012) for experienced postdoctoral scientists for up to three years.
• jobs

The MPIPKS installs one Advanced Study Group each year to foster high level cutting edge research. Senior scientists are primarily addressed. Follow the link for more information.
• more details

A central task of mpipks and its Visitors Program is to conduct international workshops and seminars, which makes it an almost unique institute within the Max Planck Society. Priority is given to frontier subjects which develop rapidly and to new interdisciplinary themes. The institute runs workshops (1 - 2 weeks) and seminars (1 - 3 months). Focus workshops (2 - 3 days) are conducted as well.
• suggestions for seminars/workshops
• workshop and seminar program

Further useful links:
• information about the town and its surroundings
• accommodation
• apartment equipped for scientists with their child/children
• contact the visitors program staff
link to the Federal Foreign Office