On Wednesday, 09 July, MLU’s Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office invites you to the event “Science2Impact: Understanding & Designing Interventions”, taking place from 09:00 to 10:50 in JTC Office Meeting Room, Große Steinstraße 79/80 (2.OG). What exactly is Impact and how can we as scientists and humanitarians design it step by step in a grounded, methodical manner? You […]
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3. Jul 2025
Recent awards for PhD candidates
Law graduate Dr. Lena Sophie Leffer is one of 31 doctoral candidates nominated for the German Academic Award 2025. In April, she received the university’s Dorothea Erxleben Prize for the best dissertation in the social sciences and humanities for her dissertation entitled “Automated Suspicion Algorithms – Strafverfolgung durch Künstliche Intelligenz am Beispiel der Geldwäsche”. The […]
25. Jun 2025
[MeCoSa MINT Career] Coaching for female PhD students and postdocs in STEM
MeCoSa is a mentoring and coaching program in Saxony-Anhalt, specifically created for women in STEM. The goal is to support and empower women in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology. Are you a woman in one of these fields? Then join MeCoSa! The services are free and offer you the opportunity to develop professionally, […]
25. Jun 2025
[Uni Potsdam] Call for Nominations for the 2026 Voltaire Award
In January 2026 the University Potsdam will, for the tenth time now, award a young scholar with the the “Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Difference”. Each year the prize is granted to a young scholar who has made important contributions to the popular discourse in these topics or campaigned for freedom in […]
19. Jun 2025
[DFG] DFG-Förderangebote für eine wissenschaftliche Karriere (27.06.2025)
Welche Fördermöglichkeiten bietet die DFG Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern im Anschluss an die Promotion? Wir geben Ihnen einen Überblick über die DFG-Förderinstrumente von der Promotion zur Professur: Mitarbeit in Projekten, Sachbeihilfe mit Eigener Stelle, Walter Benjamin-, Emmy Noether- und Heisenberg-Programm. Das Ganze wird ergänzt durch Tipps zur Vorbereitung eines Antrags. Quelle: DFG Interessierte Promovierende und Postdocs […]
17. Jun 2025
Integrated Research Training Group PROTEOFORuM (SFB 1664)
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Marcel Quint, coordinator: Dr. Carolin Delker, Dr. Julia Grimmer (funding 2024-2028) (link) The major objective of the collaborative research centre (CRC) is to understand the translation of genome-encoded sequence variation to structural, mechanistic and functional proteoform diversity. The SFB 1664 is an interdisciplinary collaborative research centre at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The […]
17. Jun 2025
International Graduate School: POLY-Sustainable Polymers (AgriPolyII)
spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Daniel Wefers, Prof. Dr. Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, coordinator: Lea Ueberham (funding 2024-2027) (link) POLY-Sustainable Polymers wants to contribute to the change from using plastics one-time to a circular use of polymers. Therefore graduate students and PIs here at MLU Halle (Saale) will investigate and research within the POLY – school (AgriPoly II) with the support […]
17. Jun 2025
International Graduate School: AGRI-explore (AgriPolyII)
spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Edgar Peiter, Prof. Dr. Sven-Erik Behrens, coordinator: Dr. Amanda Ratier Backes (funding 2024-2027) (link) Agri-Explore is embedded in the globally visible focus on plant research in Saxony-Anhalt. The acronym EXPLORE highlights the need for training young scientists who, during their work in the graduate school and their subsequent leading roles in academia […]
17. Jun 2025
Research Training Group: Politik der Aufklärung (GRK 2999)
spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Décultot, coordinator: Dr. Martin Dönike (funding 2025-2030) (link) The Resarch Training Group “Politics of Enlightenment” explores the politics of the Enlightenment from the 18th to the 21st century in two respects: On the one hand, it examines the political claims and interpretations that have been and are being developed in the name […]
16. Jun 2025
Second funding period of Research Training Group approved
Congratulations! The German Research Foundation (DFG) is once again funding a Research Training Groups (RTG) at MLU with around four million euros. This will enable the successful training of doctoral students from the fields of chemistry, physics, biochemistry and mathematics. The Research Training Group “Beyond Amphiphilicity: Self-Organization of Soft Matter Via Multiple Noncovalent Interactions (GRK […]