Fellowships for early career physicists from Middle and Eastern European countries (DPG Fall Meeting)

As the fellowships are aimed exclusively at young researchers from abroad, the call for applications is only available in English.

With the Fall Meetings (DPG-Herbsttagungen), the DPG was launching a new cross-sectional conference format in 2019. Fall Meetings are dedicated to a particularly topical research topic, which is jointly determined by the three sections of the DPG.

The second DPG Fall Meeting will take place in Göttingen from 8 to 12 September 2025 and will be dedicated to the topic of "Quantum Physics". 

Thanks to the support of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation DPG offers fellowships for early career physicists from Middle and Eastern European countries to participate in this conference.

Eligible are

  • Early career physicists approaching their PhD or up to 6 years after obtaining their PhD,
  • who are member in the physical society of their country (or member of the European Physical Society or the Physical Society of another European country),
  • who are ready to contribute to the DPG Fall Meeting (typically by presenting a poster or a talk of their work) and
  • who work in one of the following countries: Member countries of Balkan Physical Union (Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, North Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey); Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.

Application

  • Online via this application form.
    We ask for personal data and an abstract of the work you intend to present at the Fall Meeting. Please add a letter of recommendation from your supervisor, your home institute or the leader of your working group.
  • Deadline for application: 4th May 2025

Selection process

A jury of DPG will assess the applications and select up to 30 persons for a fellowship. All applicants will be informed until 14th May 2025.

Fellowship

The fellowships covers:

  • The conference fee,
  • costs for travel and accommodation - upon presentation of appropriate receipts and up to a maximum of € 520.00 and
  • a daily lump sum of € 30.00 for up to 6 days.

Please notice

  • Fellowship-holders have to organise travel and accommodation by their own – DPG cannot assist in organising the trip.
  • However, upon request DPG will provide the fellowship-holders with an invitation letter for visa purposes and also with a health-insurance for the time of the conference.