Are you an international postdoctoral researcher with an ambitious research idea that connects to immunology, tissue homeostasis, early transitions from health to disease, remission or precision prevention?
The Berlin Career Track “Academia”, implemented through the Einstein Postdoctoral Grant program, offers an exciting opportunity to bring your research to Berlin and develop it within the interdisciplinary environment of ImmunoPreCept.
This is not a call for a predefined postdoctoral position. We are looking for talented international postdocs who want to bring their own ideas and develop a collaborative research project together with researchers from the ImmunoPreCept network.
ImmunoPreCept connects basic, clinical and computational researchers across university and non-university research institutions in Berlin. This provides access to complementary scientific expertise, technologies, research infrastructures and clinical resources – and an excellent environment in which to build new collaborations.
Interested? Get in touch with us or directly with one of our PIs.
Together, we can explore your research idea, identify complementary expertise and the right partners within our network, and shape your idea into a strong collaborative project for the application.
The Einstein Postdoctoral Grant supports excellent researchers at different stages of their postdoctoral career and provides up to four years of funding in the two tracks relevant to this call.
For researchers in the early postdoctoral phase (R2), up to four years after their PhD, the programme funds the postdoc’s own position for up to four years as part of a Berlin research group. Project-specific consumables that are directly required for the proposed research can also be requested.
This track provides an excellent opportunity to pursue your own project while becoming embedded in a strong collaborative research environment.
For advanced and demonstrably excellent postdocs approaching or already at R3 level, the Einstein Independent Researcher track offers a particularly attractive opportunity to take the next step towards scientific independence.
Funding of up to four years can include your own position as well as additional personnel, project-specific consumables and smaller investments, where justified by the project and your career stage. Depending on the proposed project and previous experience, this can include the development of a small research team.
The programme therefore provides substantial scope to establish an increasingly independent research profile while benefiting from the scientific environment and collaborative network of ImmunoPreCept.
ImmunoPreCept brings together researchers across Berlin to understand the mechanisms that maintain health, identify the earliest transitions towards disease and develop new approaches for precision prevention and disease interception.
By developing your project with ImmunoPreCept, you can take advantage of the strong links between Berlin’s university and non-university research institutions and connect expertise across disciplines and institutional boundaries.
Importantly, the Berlin Career Track is designed not only to support an individual postdoctoral project, but also to establish collaborations with the potential to develop into longer-term joint research activities.
For this specific funding opportunity, candidates must:
🔹 be postdoctoral researchers currently based outside the EU, Norway and Switzerland;
🔹 have conducted research outside these regions for at least two years at the time of application;
🔹 have graduated no longer than 4 years
🔹 develop a collaborative project involving a Berlin university and a non-university research institution.
Applications through Charité are developed in consultation with a Charité PI.
Please also note the specific eligibility criteria of the 🔗 Einstein Postdoctoral Grant for the respective career track.
Please contact us before developing a full application.
If you already have an ImmunoPreCept PI in mind, you are very welcome to approach them directly. If you are unsure which researchers or institutions would provide the best fit for your idea, contact the ImmunoPreCept Management Team.
We can help you:
🔹 identify suitable scientific partners across the ImmunoPreCept network;
🔹 explore how your research idea complements ongoing research in the consortium;
🔹 establish the required cross-institutional collaboration; and
🔹 develop the framework for a competitive joint project.
The idea should come from you – the project is something we would like to shape together.
📅 Charité internal deadline: 15 August 2026
📅 Einstein Foundation deadline: 15 August 2026
🔗 More information: https://www.einsteinfoundation.de/foerderung/einstein-postdoctoral-grant
🕑 Funding decision: June 2027
Given the collaborative nature of the program and the Charité internal deadline, we strongly encourage interested postdocs to contact us as early as possible.
Get in touch with the ImmunoPreCept Team or contact one of our PIs directly – and let’s explore what we can build together.
📩 Contact: immunoprecept@charite.de
