registration number:
fb20-0258-wmz-2025
Entry date: 2026-04-01
Application deadline: 2026-01-11
Salary: E 13 TV-H
Duration:
4 years
Volume of employment: fulltime
The University of Marburg, founded in 1527, offers a variety of excellent programs of study for around 22,000 students and confronts the important topics of our time through excellent research across a broad spectrum of sciences.
The Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Laboratory for Targeted Cancer Therapeutics of Prof. Dr. Oliver Hantschel is currently accepting applications for a
Postdoctoral Researcher/Fellow
The position is offered for a period of 4 years and is funded by the ERC Synergy grant CARAMEL. The starting date is 1 April 2026. The position is fulltime with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13).
The CARAMEL project (Covalent Chaotropic Membrane Transport for Biotherapeutic Delivery) aims to overcome one of the biggest challenges in medicine: efficiently delivering modern biotherapeutics, such as peptides and proteins, into cells - a key hurdle in developing new treatments for cancer and other diseases. This should be accomplished over the course of the next 6 years using superchaotropic boron-clusters. The CARMEL team will be composed of several PhD students and postdoctoral fellows at the Hantschel lab in Marburg, the Universities in Santiago de Compostela (Montenegro lab), Bremen (Nau lab) and Bern (Luciani lab). The position offers a unique collaborative research environment with generous funding as part of a cross-disciplinary team in Marburg and includes regular and frequent scientific exchange with the three other project sites. The aim is to create self-delivering peptide and protein hybrids and establish the fundamental rules governing this transport mode through biochemical screening/characterization, and quantitative cellular delivery assays in cancer cells.
Tasks:
- Cooperative research in a multidisciplinary and international environment in the ERC project CARAMEL
- Production of a collection of recombinant model proteins for cellular transport assays
- Further development of quantitative assays for protein transport using superchaotropic boron clusters
- Independent planning, implementation, and evaluation of experiments on the cellular transport of protein and peptide biotherapeutics
- Communication of research results through publications and conference presentations
- Project development, documentation, and communication with project partners
This is a fixed-term project position. The contract is not concluded under Section 2 (1) of the German Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG).
Profile:
- MSc-degree or equivalent and a doctorate (PhD or MD/PhD) in a life science, chemical, medical, or pharmaceutical field
- High motivation and sound laboratory skills in protein biochemistry, cell biology, chemical biology, molecular biology, bioorganic chemistry, or pharmacy
- Documented research productivity (at least one first-author publication)
- Willingness to work in a multidisciplinary and multinational team
- Very good teamwork and communication skills
- Very good written and spoken English skills
We offer:
- Dynamic scientific environment in an international and motivated team
- Dedicated and structured support
- Comprehensive and up-to-date technical equipment and modern infrastructure
- Ticket for free use of public transport in the state of Hesse, Germany
- Various training and development opportunities
- Company pension scheme
Contact for more Information Prof. Dr. Oliver Hantschel
+49 6421-28 65021
oliver.hantschel@uni-marburg.de
We support women and strongly encourage them to apply. In areas where women are underrepresented, female applicants will be preferred in case of equal qualifications. As a certified family-friendly university, we support our employees in balancing family and career. A reduction of working time is possible. Applicants with a disability as discribed in SGB IX (§ 2 Abs. 2, 3) will be preferred in case of equal qualifications. Application and interview costs can not be refunded.
Please apply by 11 January 2026 using the application button below.