News from MLU
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.
from Campus Halensis
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).
22. Apr 2025
[BEAM] AI portraits of pioneering women in science
Pioneering Women – 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.
4. Mar 2025
Research, International and Transfer Information Service (FIT) at MLU
MLU became a member of the Research, International and Transfer Information Service (FIT) on March 1, 2025. This service will make it even easier for you to receive information about new funding programs, calls for proposals and events related to your scientific field via an e-mail newsletter.
FIT is administered by the University of Kassel and is an e-mail service that provides researchers with targeted and tailored information on research funding. The information is fed from the FIT database, where you have from now on the opportunity to register for a free subscription with your @(domain).uni-halle.de e-mail address and set up an individual user profile. There you can specify the research areas, types of funding and funding institutions such as DFG, BMBF and other federal ministries, EU, DAAD and AvH about which you would like to receive information. On this basis, you will then receive an e-mail on one or more days of the week, which you can select yourself, with the latest funding information that is important for you. You can search for further information in the FIT database at any time.
[ Read On … ]3. Mar 2025
[IO] Welcome event for international students and doctoral candidates (March 13/14, 2025 | online)
The International Office of MLU invites international first semester students and doctoral candidates to an online information event on the following dates:
- Thursday, 13.03.2025, 18:00 or
- Friday, 14.03.2025, 9:00 a.m.
Interested doctoral candidates without an access link can contact Dr. Heike Link (). You will then receive the online access link to the event.
14. Feb 2025
[Sprachenzentrum] Intensive German Language Courses (March 2025)
The Sprachenzentrum of MLU offers an intensive German course for doctoral students during the lecture-free period in March 2025.
- B1 – Intensive German course for academic staff (03.03.-21.03.2025, daily from 9:00-13:30; Lecturer: Frank Schulze)
6. Feb 2025
UNIBUND-Mentoring: New Call 2025
From June 2025 the mentoring programme for female postdoctoral researchers, provided by the universities of Halle-Wittenberg, Jena and Leipzig, offers eight places at each university for highly-qualified female postdocs, researchers undertaking a ‘habilitation’, junior scientist group leaders and junior professors, to support them in their development and future careers. The programme aims for female researchers who seek a professorship at a German university and who were awarded their doctorate at least 2 years ago.
- application deadline: March 30, 2025 to:
You can find more information about the competition here.
6. Nov 2024
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6. Nov 2024
Call for scholarships for international students and doctoral candidates for more equal opportunities
The International Office of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg is awarding scholarships for the winter semester 2024/2025 once in december, funded by the DAAD from resources of the Federal Foreign Office (AA).
These scholarships are intended to support international students and doctoral candidates facing special challenges, such as illness, existentially threatening financial situations, special care needs for children or dependent relatives, refugee backgrounds, or physical impairment et al.
The scholarship amount is €650, awarded once in December 2024.
Details on the application and award process can be found here.