Join our webinar: Your PhD @ Max Planck – Exploring Doctoral Programs 📅 Date: August 7, 2026 ⏰ Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (CEST) Register here until August 5: https://events.gwdg.de/e/PhDatMaxPlanck2026 Are you a Master's student who wants to explore the prospect of doing a PhD in Germany? Join us for a unique webinar event designed [...]
IMPRS A&A alumnus Jonah Wagenveld from MPIfR Bonn is awarded the Doctoral Thesis Prize for his outstanding PhD thesis, titled "Testing Large-Scale Cosmology with MeerKAT" at the MPIfR. He graduated with summa cum laude in 2024. Central to his work was the study of the cosmic radio dipole—an anisotropy in the distribution of radio sources that [...]
Congratulations to our IMPRS speaker Prof. Anton Zensus for being awarded the Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2024 for his leading role in the development of radio astronomical observation methods with very high angular resolution and sensitivity. Read the MPIfR announcement here.
Dr. Sibylle Anderl received the award in the "Best Media Communication" category. Further information on this website: https://rudolf-diesel-medaille.de/beitraege/europas-aeltester-innovationspreis-die-rudolf-diesel-medaillen-gehen-2024-an/ The Rudolf Diesel Medal has been awarded since 1953. The award is presented annually to entrepreneurs and companies who have demonstrated both their inventive spirit and their ability to successfully implement ideas in business. Such successes have [...]
IMPRS Alumnae Dr. Cosima Eibensteiner and Dr. Hendrik Müller have been selected as outstanding early career scientists for 2023 Jansky Fellowships. Congratulations.
IMPRS alumna Dr. Huanchen Hu has been awarded the 2024 Dissertation Prize of the Matter and Cosmos Section (SMuK) of the DPG "For her dissertation and the lecture entitled: Gravity tests with pulsars using new-generation radio telescopes. " Congratulations. The divisions of the DPG united in the SMuK announce a dissertation prize. The aim of [...]
The Stiftung für Physik und Astronomie in Bonn awards the 2024 Promotionspreis to our IMPRS alumnus Dr Jakob den Brok. His PhD thesis is titled "Unraveling Molecular Gas Conditions across Nearby Galaxies with CO Isotopologues". Congratulations.
Apply now Please find the new IMPRS portal for applications here: https://imprs.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/ Projects for this application round are listed here: https://blog.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/imprs/for-applicants/phd-projects/ IMPRS Supervisors are listed on this page: https://blog.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/imprs/people-research/imprs-supervisors/ Contact information for current IMPRS students that are willing to answer any questions concerning accommodation, studies, life in Bonn and Cologne and any other issues [...]
MPIfR director and IMPRS Speaker receives prestigious award of the European Astronomical Society The 2023 Tycho Brahe Medal is awarded to Prof J. Anton Zensus (Max-Planck- Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany) for major advances of Very Long Baseline Interferometry that led to the first images of the shadows of the black holes in the galaxy [...]
