PhD Microbiome

At Beiersdorf, we want to help people feel good about their skin – and our commitment goes far beyond caring for skin. For 140 years, we have developed innovative skin and body care products for well-known brands such as NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, Hansaplast, and Labello. We act according to our purpose, WE CARE BEYOND SKIN, and take responsibility for our consumers, our employees, the environment and society.

Behind every brand, every product and every accomplishment are our more than 20,000 employees. It is for them that we live an inclusive culture of respect and trust that is strongly aligned with our values – CARE, COURAGE, SIMPLICITY and TRUST. We also embrace diversity by valuing the uniqueness of each individual and being committed to equal opportunities for all.

We offer excellent opportunities for natural science researchers who would like to do their doctoral studies in our supporting Research & Development environment. With more than 450 researchers, our main Skin Research Centre in Hamburg is one of the largest and most advanced in Germany - and one of the most important in the world. We are offering an interdisciplinary scientific training for graduates of life sciences and medicine in an international environment who are interested in basic and translational skin & microbiome research.

As a PhD student at Beiersdorf, you will enjoy several benefits:

• Highly relevant and challenging scientific topics
• Supervision by senior researchers from Beiersdorf and their scientific partners
• A high level of education, equivalent to renowned institutes and universities

PhD students at Beiersdorf highly benefit from our supporting Research & Development environment. Beiersdorf deeply cares about skin and aims to maintain healthy skin and to improve diseased skin states. Using a multidisciplinary approach, we aim to explore the role of the skin microbiome for maintaining skin health, being far more than the sheer absence of disease. We seek to gain new insights into the complex interplay of the skin and the microbiome to better understand its role in healthy skin and to derive novel concepts for cosmetic interventions.

You will:

• Study the host - microbiome crosstalk and its role for maintaining skin health in vitro & ex vivo
• Design, perform and analyze in vitro experiments
• Design, prepared, analyze and interpret in vivo studies (incl. communication with study centers).
• Analyze large data sets and multi-omics data
• Identify extrinsic and intrinsic key drivers and principles (organisms, proteins, nucleic acids, metabolites, etc.)
• Evaluate the feasibility to use such drivers and principles as cosmetic treatment
• Present, discuss and defend data to stake holders

• Master's degree in Microbiology, Systems Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Life Sciences or in an aligned field
• Experiences in multi-omics approaches (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) and their analysis
• Experience in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell culture
• Experience in microbiome research (skin, gut, etc.)
• You should have a strong interest in the above-mentioned research area
• You should be able to work independently and you are characterized by a high level of motivation and commitment
• Fluent English language skills (spoken and written)
• German language skills is not a requirement

 If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Isabel Warnecke via