3. Jul
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 will have a look at useful impact definitions, the Theory of Change and Logical Framework Approaches. Then JTC will discuss principles and review models of intervention based on the Double Diamond and the JTC Transfer Framework. In interactive pair and groupwork participants will get to know and try out a couple of tools to get a practical hold on the process. The course will be held in English.
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3. Jul
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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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25. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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, learn from experienced mentors, and connect with other women in your field.
Take this chance to advance your career and achieve your goals. Become part of MeCoSa and sign up today!
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25. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 research, and education as well as the right of free expression. The panel of judges will select a winner from the submitted nominations.
The winner of the Voltaire Award will be honored during the 2026 New Year’s Reception. The prize amounts to €5,000 and is financed by the Friede Springer Foundation.
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19. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 aller Fachgebiete sind zur Teilnahme eingeladen. Die Veranstaltung findet auf Deutsch statt.
- Wann: am 27. Juni, 10:30-12:00 Uhr
- Wo: online
Die Zugangsdaten werden am Tag der Veranstaltung hier veröffentlicht.
Prospects: Vortragsreihe zum DFG-Förderangebot für wissenschaftliche Karrieren
In dieser Vortragsreihe stellt die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) über das Jahr verteilt das DFG-Förderportfolio für Wissenschaftler*innen in frühen Karrierephasen vor:
Von einem ersten Überblick über die zentralen Förderangebote für Postdocs bis zu einzelnen Programmen der Personenförderung wie Walter Benjamin-, Emmy Noether- und Heisenberg-Programm, abwechselnd auf Deutsch und Englisch. Interessierte Promovierende und Postdocs aller Fachgebiete sind zur Teilnahme eingeladen.
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17. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 highly interdisciplinary nature of the CRC requires extensive expertise in plant molecular biology, structural protein biochemistry and computational methods. Early career researchers (ECRs) will therefore need to acquire a broad understanding of all disciplines involved to efficiently progress in their project work.
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17. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 of Saxony-Anhalt and the European Union (ESF+). The graduate school aims to improve the training of early-career scientists and support especially female researchers and international scientists.
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17. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 and industry, optimize the resilience and productivity of crops by exploring new avenues. The particular strength of the Agri-Explore concept lies in the integration and combination of findings on various resilience mechanisms of crop plants, in order to be able to intervene specifically in the development of optimized genotypes. The projects focus strongly on crop plants and integrate supportive work on model species. The targeted modification of plant resilience mechanisms in crops using genome editing is supported by a newly established Plant Transformation and Genome Editing core facility at the MLU Biocentre, which is available to all projects of the graduate school and supports the training of doctoral students in plant biotechnology methods.
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17. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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 of the Enlightenment. On the other hand, it focuses on the political discussions and measures that shape the understanding of Enlightenment in a global context to this day.
Partner(s):
- Leipzig University
- University of Erfurt
- University of Pennsylvania
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16. Jun
2025
Written by Thomas Michael
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).
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