Are you keen to expand your network?
Would you like to get to know renowned metrologists?
Would you like to work on a challenging project at one of the world’s leading national metrology institutes?
Check out PTB’s Guest Researcher Programme!
Are you keen to expand your network?
Would you like to get to know renowned metrologists?
Would you like to work on a challenging project at one of the world’s leading national metrology institutes?
Check out PTB’s Guest Researcher Programme!
Our Guest Researcher Programme originated when PTB researchers expressed interest in inviting their peers from other metrology organisations.
Acting on their wish, we set up the PTB Guest Researcher Programme, whose aim is to facilitate collaboration between metrologists from all over the world.
Guest researcher stays at PTB are designed to yield new and deeper scientific insight into current metrology issues or a new or improved national standard or method.
Working temporarily at PTB can entail many advantages for you:
PTB’s Guest Researcher Programme is open to scientists and engineers from NMIs* and DIs** or from other scientific or technological institutions working in the area of metrology, e.g. universities.
A guest researcher must be an employee of one of the institution types listed above. The home institution must be willing to continue paying the researcher’s salary during their stay at PTB.
PTB pays a mobility allowance of 1400 euros per month, which is adequate for accommodation, food and local travel in Germany. It is expected that travel to and from Germany will be covered by the home institution.
Ideally, a guest researcher should stay between three and six months, the minimum should be one month.
Guest researchers must be proficient in either English or German.
*National Metrology Institute
**Designated Institute
Then go ahead – apply for a PTB guest researcher grant! The application process is straightforward and unbureaucratic.
Your contact at PTB will then initiate and carry out the internal application and approval procedure.
1 September: call for applications
1 October: your contact at PTB must have your finalised proposal
End of December: decision on your proposal
Once you are accepted, your host will support you in preparing your stay at PTB, including communicating with PTB administration and searching for an apartment.
During the last two years the Guest Researcher Programme of PTB suffered a lot due to the pandemic. We are happy that now it takes off again. Guest researchers from all over the world are visiting again PTB´s laboratories in Braunschweig and Berlin.
Do you want to know how they perceive their life in Germany and their work with PTB colleagues?
Read the interviews!