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2025 Dissertation Award Adlershof

Proposals can be submitted until 1 November!

Since 2002, Humboldt University of Berlin, WISTA Management GmbH and IGAFA have awarded the annual Dissertationspreis Adlershof (Adlershof Dissertation Award), endowed with €3,000, to young researchers for outstanding scientific achievements in a dissertation completed in Adlershof.

Dissertations that have been completed in the past 18 months with a grade of at least ‘very good’ (magna cum laude) are eligible for consideration. Nominations can be submitted online until 1 November 2025 (see current guidelines).

On Wednesday, 11 February 2026 from 3 pm, three nominees will then present the topic of their dissertation. Further information will follow.

Contact:

Sanela Schlößer
Science Office
IGAFA e. V.
+49 30 6392-3669
igafa(at)igafa.de

Petra Franz
Advisor to the Vice President for Research
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
+49 30 2093-20035
petra.franz(at)uv.hu-berlin.de

Cindy Böhme
Company spokesperson
WISTA Management GmbH
+49 30 6392-2191
cindy.boehme(at)wista.de

Dates

Sat 01 Nov
Application Deadline: 2025 Adlershof Dissertation Award
Wed 11 Feb
15.00 - 18.00
Award ceremony Dissertationspreis Adlershof
Rudower Chaussee 26, 12489 Berlin
Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum

Organisers

  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • IGAFA Initiativgemeinschaft Außeruniversitärer Forschungseinrichtungen in Adlershof e. V.
  • WISTA Management GmbH

Guidelines

  • Guidelines for the Adlershof Dissertation Award pdf (140,75 KB)
    pdf (140,75 KB)

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