Recipients of the Doctoral Thesis Award
| Year | Recipient | Institute | Title of Publication | Publication |
| 2024 | Dr. Matti Dorsch | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Tracing the diversity of hot subdwarf evolution Surface composition, magnetic fields, and populations | |
| 2023 | Dr. Annika Rudolph | Niels Bohr International Academy, Copenhagen | Exploring Multi-Messenger Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts | |
| 2022 | Dr. Arshia Maria Jacob | MPIfR | Small Molecules, Big Impact: Investigating hydrides in the interstellar medium | |
| 2021 | Dr. Anke Arentsen | Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg | Galactic Archaeology with the oldest stars in the Milky Way | |
| 2020 | Dr. Anna-Christina Eilers | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) | The Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes | |
| 2019 | Dr. Oliver Friedrich Dr. Tim Lichtenberg |
Cambridge University (UK) Oxford University (UK) |
Do we understand gravitation on cosmological scales? Thermal evolution of forming planets |
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| 2018 | Dr. Pablo Marchant | Bonn | Where do stellar-mass merging binary black holes come from? | |
| 2017 | Dr. Philipp Grete | Michigan State University (USA) | Large eddy simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence | |
| 2016 | Dr. Nicole Reindl | Tübingen | Investigations on the hot and mysterious stages of late stellar evolution | |
| 2015 | Dr. Cornelia Müller | Erlangen-Nuremberg | Multiwavelength and parsec-scale properties of extragalactic jets | RMA 28, 3 AN Vol. 337, 727 (2016)  |
| 2014 | Dr. Christian Fromm | Bonn | Recollimation shocks in the relativistic outflows of active galactic nuclei | RMA 27, 3 AN Vol. 336, 447 (2015) |
| 2013 | Dr. Matthias Frank | Heidelberg | Observational dynamics of low-mass stellar systems | RMA 26, 3 AN Vol. 335, 486 (2014) |
| 2012 | Dr. Julius Donnert | Bologna (Italy) | Modelling giant radio halos | RMA 25, 3 AN Vol. 334, 515 (2013) |
| 2011 | Dr. Marios Karouzos | Bonn |
AGN jets under the microscope: A divide?
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RMA 24, 3 AN Vol. 333, 417 (2012) |
| 2010 | Dr. Hans Moritz Günther | Cambridge (MA, USA) | Accretion, jets and winds: High-energy emission from young stellar objects | RMA 23, 37 (2011) |
