The doctoral representation council (DRC) invites all PhD-Students of MLU Halle-Wittenberg to join the next Get-Together.
The meeting will focus on:
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26. Jan 2026
[BEAM] Exibition on pioneering women (February 5 – March 15, 2026)
Be inspired by female scientists whose skills and contributions to science were not recognized during their lifetime.
With the help of Gesine Born from the Bilderinstitut and an artificial intelligence, the Research Training Group BEAM is able to portray them as they deserved and as their male colleagues were lucky enough to experience.
28. Oct 2025
PhD Get-together (November 20, 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.
- Where: SSR (Selbstverwalterer Studierendenraum), Adam Kuckhoff-Str. 34a, Halle (Saale) (Steintor Campus) (openstreetmap)
- When: 20.11.2025, 5 p.m. till 8 p.m.
Free drinks and some snacks are available.
2. Sep 2025
[TGS] Open call for FuckUp Night Halle (November 20, 2025)
Stories of failure and getting back up
On November 20, 2025, the Transfer and Entrepreneurship Office (TGS) at MLU and the Designhaus at BURG invite you to a new edition of FuckUp Night Halle.
TGS is looking for courageous people with exciting life stories about starting out, failing, and getting back up again. Whether you are an entrepreneur, scientist, or civic activist, tell us what you tried that didn’t work out – and what came of it.
[ Read On … ]27. Aug 2025
Plan for mental health crisis and support services
Healthy working at the MLU – Occupational Health Management has developed an emergency plan when dealing with individuals suspected of having suicidal tendencies.
Please check the following webseite for further details:
16. Jul 2025
Better and faster doctoral studies in Saxony-Anhalt: MLU launches state-wide network
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).
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 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.
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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 2670)” is investigating a fundamental organizing principle for molecules: amphiphilicity. This is the property of substances to be soluble in both fat and water. Soap is a common example. In nature, amphiphilicity occurs as a universal building principle of molecules. It is often extended by giving molecules an additional charge or another atom. This creates interactions between the molecules that make complex structures such as proteins and polymers possible in the first place.
Read more at press release 074/2025 from June 16, 2025 (in German).