At a formal award ceremony, the Executive Board of Paderborn University presented the 2026 Graduate Scholarship to five outstanding early-career researchers. The scholarships comprise a monthly grant of 2,000 euros and are awarded for one or three years, depending on the funding stream. Prof. Dr Thomas Tröster, Vice-President for Research and Academic Careers, congratulated the scholarship recipients: “By nurturing talent at an early stage in their careers, we are supporting them to drive scientific progress and securing the innovative strength of tomorrow. The awarded projects reflect the range of individual career paths and, at the same time, demonstrate the diversity and quality of research at our university. I offer you my warmest congratulations and wish you every success with your projects.”
A PhD scholarship in the field of gender studies has been awarded to Dany Kanjirathingal Shaju from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, who is conducting research on the topic ‘Extending Feminist Dramaturgy: Trans Authorship in Contemporary British Drama’. The funding will run for three years. Two full scholarships for doctoral funding and support, also for a period of three years, have been awarded to Lara Teresa Vitale from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and to Clemens Marcinek from the Faculty of Science. Vitale is writing her doctoral thesis on “Democratic Public Sphere in Digital Capitalism: Critical Analysis and Normative Perspectives”, whilst Marcinek is focusing on “Photoactive Frustrated Lewis Pairs for the Energy-Efficient Release of Hydrogen in Indoline and Carbazole Derivatives”.
In addition, two final-year scholarships were awarded to Johannes Gereons from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Marie Wegener from the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. Gereons is working on his doctoral thesis on the topic “Foreign language policy of officially German-speaking countries in armed conflicts – a situational analysis of the biographies of learners and teaching staff of German as a foreign language”. Wegener is receiving funding for her research on ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Outcomes: Empirical Evidence, Research Patterns, and Conceptual Advances’. The duration of the final-year scholarships is one year, as they are designed to support early-career researchers in the final phase of their doctoral dissertations.
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