News for graduates and postdocs at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
12. Nov 2025
Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst stellt im Jahr 2026 Mittel für die Auszeichnung einer/eines internationalen Studierenden oder Promotionsstudierenden der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg zur Verfügung.
Mit dem DAAD-Preis sollen besondere akademische Leistungen und bemerkenswertes gesellschaftlisches oder interkulturelles Engagement gewürdigt werden.
[ Read On … ]3. Nov 2025
The next PhD Round Table will take place on November 6, 2025 at 7.30 pm at Colonne Morris. As always, PhD students, postdocs, and their partners are very welcome. It is the perfect place to meet new people and chat about life and work in Halle.
28. Oct 2025
The doctoral representation council invites all PhD-Students of the MLU Halle-Wittenberg to join the annual Get-Together in the winter semester. Share your stories, your struggles and secret weapons (for finishing your PhD-thesis) and enjoy some drinks with Your PhD-representatives.
Free drinks and some snacks are available.
30. Sep 2025
The next PhD Round Table will take place on Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 7.30 pm at Irish Fiddler. As always, PhD students, postdocs, and their partners are very welcome. It is the perfect place to meet new people and chat about life and work in Halle.
Spontaneous visitors are welcome, but in order to better plan seating, please send a short email to if you are interested in attending.
Please check the PhD network website for further information.
1. Sep 2025
Are you a female student, doctoral researcher, or postdoctoral researcher at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg?
Are you interested in pursuing a career in academia or in research outside the university?
Do you want to shape your career path with independence and practical solutions, while networking with other female researchers?
Great goals are best achieved together. Register by October 31, 2025.
What can you expect from the mentoring program?
11. Aug 2025
This survey is aimed at doctoral candidates at MLU and is intended to tailor the planned Welcome Day 2026 as well as other support services to your specific needs. Your insights, experiences, and wishes are crucial for the planning and implementation. The Welcome Day 2026 is organized by InGrA (International Graduate Academy), which supports doctoral candidates throughout their doctoral journey.
16. Jul 2025
How can the overall supervision of doctoral students at universities in Saxony-Anhalt be improved? What new concepts are there? What can be learned from doctoral programs abroad? And: What services do postdocs need in order to develop their own academic profile? The new project “Hochschulnetzwerk der Graduiertenakademien in Sachsen-Anhalt” at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) is addressing questions such as these. The aim is to develop new offers and concepts for the doctorate of early career researchers at universities in Saxony-Anhalt. MLU is receiving around 1.6 million euros from the European Social Fund Plus and the state of Saxony-Anhalt for this purpose.
(from press release 089/2025 from July 16, 2025 (in German))
Read more at the website of GRADSAplus (in German).
8. Jul 2025
The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg is offering 5 part time (65%) positions as part of the “Politics of the Enlightenment” Research Training Group (RTG 2999) as a
Research Associate (m-f-d)
for a fixed term of up to 4 years, starting from 01.04.2026.
Please find further information at the website of the RTG.
3. Jul 2025
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 prize is endowed with 1,000 euros.
Chemist Dr. Justus Friedrich Thümmler has been awarded the university’s Dorothea Erxleben Prize for his dissertation entitled “Near-Infrared Fluorescent Single-Chain Nanoparticles as Contrast Agents for Photoacoustic Imaging”. He received the prize of 1,000 euros in the life and natural sciences category.
Jan Sievers, doctoral candidate in the Medical Physics department, received the “Student Paper Award” of the “European Conferences on Biomedical Optics” at the end of June. His work presented at the conference entitled “Parallelized data acquisition using a Fabry Perot sensor with uniform optical thickness and a camera based tomograph for photoacoustic imaging” was honoured.
from Campus Halensis