​Research activities in 2D-MATURE are organized in eight tightly interlinked projects P1–P8. The intention is to tackle the central scientific goal of the IRTG by overcoming the key barriers to commercialization of 2D materials, namely scalability in synthesis and processing and understanding interfacial phenomena in realistic device architectures. 
The PhD candidates will be jointly supervised by two PIs with complementary scientific expertise, typically one from each country. All PhD projects are designed in a way that research is mainly performed at the home institution, with an important contribution of research stays at the partner institution in the respective other country.