News for graduates and postdocs at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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.
28. Oct 2025
In this lecture, you will receive an introduction into German labour law, with a special focus on the regulations relevant for international students. Are you searching for a job but feeling uncertain whether the contract is legally sound? Do you want to know how to successfully transition into professional life in Germany after your studies, and which rules apply to you? Then join this lecture to learn everything you need to know about fair employment in Germany!
[ Read On … ]22. Oct 2025
Kickstart Your Career in the Life Sciences with this GMP Basic Course!
GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) are legally binding guidelines for quality assurance in the production, filling, packaging, storage and distribution of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food and feed. Knowledge of GMP is therefore an important core competence for a career start in the pharmaceutical, food or cosmetic industry.
Register for this course and learn the essentials of GMP, gain practical knowledge directly applicable to your future career and connect with potential employers!
7. Oct 2025
Welcher Englischkurs ist der richtige für mich? Unter diesem Motto lädt das Sprachenzetrum der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg zu Beginn des neuen Semesters alle Studierenden ein, ihren Wissensstand zu prüfen und herauszufinden, welches Sprachniveau der ideale Einstieg ist.
[ Read On … ]7. Oct 2025
This online talk focuses on the Walter Benjamin Programm of the DFG. Further details and the dial in link can be found at Info Talks on DFG Funding Opportunities for Research Careers.
Please note: You can access the event via the link above without any password. The number of participants is limited to max. 1,000.
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.
29. Sep 2025
are a joint initiative of Leipzig University, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, yDiv/iDiv and HIGRADE/UFZ. Organized by its graduate academies and occupational health management units, we want to support you as researchers at our universities and research institutions.
Our main aim is to inform and sensibilize you on how to cope with demanding or stressful situations during your research. Ideally, the presented topics will help you to smoothen stressful situations and even prevent too heavy mental load. During these three days, you will find various online offers (most of them in English), such as stress reduction in private and professional life, leadership positions and well-being in the academic environment, playfulness in the work context, and time and self-management skills.
[ Read On … ]15. Sep 2025
You are invited to a short publishing workshop on October 28, at 16.30, with Stefan Hildebrandt, Editor in Chief of Annalen der Physik and physica status solidi a/b and Senior Manager in the Physics and Materials Science Group. This event is jointly organized by the IMPRS-STNS, the TRR227 and Wiley.
10. Sep 2025
Journal articles should be published in order to make the greatest possible impact in the scientific field – not simply to increase the list of publications.
In this workshop, we will discuss how to navigate the different steps of publishing and how to deal with the peer review process, increasing the chances of acceptance.
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[ Read On … ]9. Sep 2025
The DFG frequently receives question from researchers regarding the specific wording and placement of their funding references – an important indicator of the existing need for information that goes beyond the requirements set out in the DFG’s guidelines for the use of funds.
In fact, daily practice also shows that there is still a need for clarification when it comes to correct referencing: A study on the “Publications from DFG-Funded Projects – Practice and Usability of Funding Acknowledgements” conducted by the German Center for Higher Education and Science Research (DZHW) and the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) on behalf of the DFG shows that although the DFG is correctly mentioned in 90% of publications resulting from DFG projects, in a good 40% of cases the project numbers are missing or incorrect.
Based on these analyses and inquiries, a website on funding acknowledgements was developed that systematically answers what an Funding Acknowledgements (FA) is, why it is necessary, and how it is correctly formulated.
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