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Basic research for healthy ageing

We are one of the world's leading institutes for ageing research. Our mission is to understand the natural ageing process and find out how to intervene in age-related diseases to mitigate or even prevent them.

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Your Career With Us

Develop your career in a vibrant atmosphere

Master Fellowship Programme

Apply now - for the Master Fellowship Programme of the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research!
Deadline: July 15, 2023

Let us introduce ourselves!

At the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, researchers are working to understand aging. Meet our scientists in the video and learn more about their research.

Science

Research Laboratories

We aim to elucidate the molecular, physiological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying ageing.

Core Facilities

Our core facilities are a hallmark of our institute. They offer all researchers the opportunity to pursue their research questions with the latest techniques and state-of-the-art methods.

Publications

Publications by our scientists

Linda Partridge elected member of the Leopoldina

May 09, 2023

Recognition for outstanding contributions in the field of ageing research

Day of Ageing Research

May 08, 2023

Event Institute

600 enthusiastic visitors experience the exciting world of ageing research at the Open Day

Two waves of DNA damage repair

April 27, 2023

Matic Press release

How a single enzyme unleashes a complex DNA repair process

Job Offers

Max Planck Research Group Leader (m/f/d) (W2) | Biology of Ageing

April 26, 2023

5 Master Fellowships | Biology/Biochemistry

April 12, 2023

Postdoctoral Research Fellows (m/f/d) | Molecular Genetics of Ageing

March 16, 2023

What We Offer

Comprehensive support for our international employees, individual career service and promotion of a healthy work-life balance.

Education

No matter what your goal is and on which step of the career ladder you are: As long as excellent research is part of your path and you want to support our vision, you are in the right place.

Flowering tree in front of blue sky and institute

Diversity

We strive to create an equal, diverse and inclusive environment for all employees.

Job offers

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Pint of Science

from 07:00 PM to 10:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Mechanistic and translational research on microglia-specific genetic risk variants in Alzheimer’s disease (MgAlz)"

from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)