Call for Applications 2026

VAAM members can submit substantiated proposals for the award of a VAAM PhD Award in electronic form to the VAAM office by 31 December 2025.

The awards are endowed with 2000 € and will be awarded at the VAAM Annual Conference 2026 in Berlin.
The nominee must be a member of the VAAM at the time of nomination.

The dissertation should be assigned to one of the disciplines of general and applied microbiology and it should have been completed and evaluated with distinction by 2025.

Documents to be submitted (each as PDF):
- A proposal report including a justification
- A further review by a university lecturer
- Curriculum vitae
- Brief summary
- Publications (list of publications, the articles as PDF)
- Dissertation

Prof. Dr. Jörg Stülke
Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik
Abt. Allgemeine Mikrobiologie
Universität Göttingen
Grisebachstrasse 8
37077 Göttingen
Tel: +49 (0)551-3933781
e-mail: jstuelk@gwdg.de