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Funding for young researchers: 2,000 euros per month to Paderborn University!
In 2025, the University of Paderborn will award scholarships of 2,000 euros for promising doctoral students in various disciplines.
Funding for young researchers: 2,000 euros per month to Paderborn University!
The University of Paderborn announced today, July 3, 2025, that it is awarding numerous scholarships to outstanding scientists in early career phases as part of its graduate funding. Loud uni-paderborn.de The funding includes monthly support of 2,000 euros. Depending on the funding line, the duration of the financing is either 12 or 36 months.
Particular emphasis was placed by Prof. Dr. Thomas Tröster, Vice President for Research, emphasized the importance of supporting excellent research and the development of young scientists. This year, several doctoral scholarships are being awarded that are characterized by their innovative variety of topics.
Outstanding projects
Among the supported doctoral students is Jonas Kloppenburg from the Faculty of Cultural Studies. His research project in the field of gender studies is entitled: “Configurations of masculinity in Brecht – Hegemonic masculinity in the context of transformation, power shifts and emphasized femininity in Bertolt Brecht’s works of the Weimar Republic”. This work is funded over 36 months.
Johanna Jakob, who works at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, also receives a full scholarship for 36 months. Her research project deals with “diffeomorphism groups of locally polyhedral manifolds and Lie groups of Whitney jets”. Timothy Kroupa, also from the Faculty of Cultural Studies, is receiving funding for his project “Pandemic Storytelling: The Cultural Work of Covid Fiction”.
In addition, two completion scholarships were awarded. Anton Visser from the Faculty of Natural Sciences is working on his doctorate entitled “Electrocortical Dynamics During Resistance Exercise”. Enno Adler, also from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, is researching “Graph and Hypergraph Compression Schemes Inspired by String Compression Techniques, RePair, and Suffix Sorting”.
Scholarship conditions and support measures
The University of Paderborn offers a wide range of support for qualified young scientists. In addition to the funding mentioned above, the offer includes a child allowance of 400 euros per month to make it easier to combine research and family. The selection criteria for the scholarships include progress in the course of study and the achievement of above-average study and examination performance, as well as the university's requirements that the dissertation must be written at the University of Paderborn, as stated mystipendium.de is to be experienced.
Furthermore, reference is made to the comprehensive funding from the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). Every year, 73 million euros are made available there to support around 3,900 doctoral students through the gifted support organizations. These works offer a variety of educational offerings and networking opportunities. Interested applicants should demonstrate above-average performance and social commitment in order to increase the chance of receiving funding, it is reported bmbf.de.
In summary, it can be said that the University of Paderborn makes a significant contribution to promoting young scientists by not only providing financial support through the awarding of graduate scholarships, but also by creating an environment in which research can flourish.