Dear colleagues, I am advertising a PhD and a Postdoc position in experimental planetology/petrology at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen. Both positions are fully funded for 4 years and part of the ERC starting grant ELMO: "Experimental Laboratory Magma Ocean". The projects will investigate how volatile and moderately volatile elements behave in magma ocean worlds-the earliest, molten stages of rocky planets-both in the Solar System and beyond. The two fundamental questions addressed by the ELMO project are: * "What were the compositions of primordial atmospheres of terrestrial solar system planets when they had magma oceans?" * "How are the atmospheres of hot exoplanets compositionally linked to interior magma oceans?" More details via the links below. Postdoc application deadline: 14th of June 2026 https://karriere.mps.mpg.de/jobposting/5a83160074ebd0a88a417cd3546b72f5504fb9260 IMPRS PhD Programme application deadline: 1st of June 2026 https://www.mps.mpg.de/phd/experimental-laboratory-magma-ocean Please share these positions with people who might be interested. Kind regards, Chris Renggli The Max Planck Society endeavours to achieve gender equality and diversity. Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. Dr. Christian J. Renggli Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3 37077 Göttingen Germany