<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(149, 193, 31); font-size: 15px;" class="">Fully funded PhD programme for young scientists with a bachelor’s degree in biology, computational sciences or related fields</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(149, 193, 31);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Are you a senior bachelor’s student or recent B.Sc. graduate in plant sciences, biology or related disciplines?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Are you curious and passionate about fundamental discoveries and challenges of modern plant sciences?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Then you may be a perfect fit for the CEPLAS Graduate School for Plant Sciences!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin: 8.5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;" class="">CEPLAS – The Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;" class=""> is Germany’s prestigious research cluster on plant sciences integrating the resources of the Universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf, the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. In an interdisciplinary approach CEPLAS researchers investigate the characteristics and mechanisms of complex plant traits and their impact on plant performance and adaptation. This knowledge builds a foundation for sustainable cultivation of food, feed and energy crops. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="BasicParagraph" style="margin: 8.5pt 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;" class="">The CEPLAS Graduate School</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext;" class=""> established a 4-5-year structured graduate programme with a default entry point at the bachelor’s level. The comprehensive two-phase training programme leads students with a bachelors’s degree through a unique qualification phase to a dissertation phase completing with a PhD degree. Obtaining a master’s degree between both phases is possible. The CEPLAS Graduate School programme starts annually in October and is fully funded.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Next<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span>programme starts in October 2020.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">Application deadline is October 31, 2019.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="color: purple;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://www.ceplas.eu/en/training-careers/ceplas-graduate-school/" style="color: purple;" class="">Apply now!</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><b style="color: purple;" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""> </span></div></body></html>