| Name | Country of origin | Subject of dissertation | Conferring university | Institute | Thesis committe |
| Ballone, Alessandro | Italy | Hydrodynamical simulations of the Galactic Center cloud G2 as an outflow | LMU | USM | Burkert |
| Behrendt, Manuel | Germany | High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies | LMU | MPE | Burkert Schartmann |
| Breunig, Elias | Germany | High Precision Alignment and Integration of Modular X-Ray Space Mirrors via a Synthesis of Simulation, Experiment and the Deflectometry Method | TUM | MPE | Friedrich Baier Predehl |
| Chan, Jeffrey | China | Constraining the formation and evolution of cluster galaxies at z~1.5 using sizes and colour gradients | LMU | MPE | Bender Saglia Wilman |
| Chiu, I-Non | Taiwan | Studies of Baryon Content and Gravitational Lensing Effects in Galaxy Clusters | LMU | USM | Mohr |
| D'Souza, Richard | India | Stellar Haloes of Galaxies | LMU | MPA | Kauffmann White Spruit |
| Feldmaier, Anja | Germany | The assembly history of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster | Leiden | ESO | Neumayer De Zeeuw Gerhard Genzel Rossi |
| Fossati, Matteo | Italy | Environmentally driven suppression of star formation in galaxies over the last 10 billion years | LMU | MPE | Saglia Wilman Bender Beifiori |
| Gaczkowski, Benjamin | Germany | The Origin of Lupus I Molecular Cloud | LMU | LMU | Preibisch Burkert Roccatagliata |
| Grieb, Jan | Germany | Anisotropic galaxy clustering measurements in Fourier space and cosmological implications from the BOSS DR 12 Sample | LMU | MPE | Phleps Bender Sanchez Komatsu |
| Gullberg, Bitten | Denmark | Exploring Star Formation in high-z Galaxies using Atomic and Molecular Emission Lines | LMU | ESO | De Breuck Bender Biggs |
| Hao, Wei | China | Dynamical evolution of supermassive black holes at the centers of elliptical galaxies | LMU | MPA | White Naab Gilfanov |
| Hennig, Christina | Germany | The Galaxy Population Evolution of Sunyeaev-Zeldovich Selected Clusters | LMU | MPA | Mohr Burkert Rosati |
| Hu, Chia-Yu | Taiwan | Star formation and molecular hydrogen in dwarf galaxies | LMU | MPA | Naab White Gilfanov |
| Janssen, Annemieke | Netherlands | An infrared/ submillimetre perspective on Active Galactic Nuclei | LMU | MPE | Eisenhauer Sturm Genzel Contursi |
| Kakiichi, Koki | Japan | THe High Redshift Universe: Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium | LMU | MPA | Ciardi White Janka |
| Kodric, Michael | Croatia | Follow-up of PANTARRS Clusters with the 3KK camera at the Wendelstein telescope and Galaxy Evolution using ILMOS Observations of large Galaxy samples | LMU | USM | Seitz Hopp Goessel Bender |
| Komarov, Sergey | Russia | Thermal Conduction in Hot Gas of Galaxy Clusters | LMU | MPA | Churazov Sunyaev Ciardi |
| Lang, Philipp | Germany | The stellar structure and outer disk kinematics of high-redshift galaxies from near-infrared observations | LMU | MPE | Genzel Foerster-Schreiber Tacconi Wuyts Kurk |
| Mantovani, Giulia | Italy | Reflection signatures in bright Seyfert 1 galaxies observerd with Suzaku and NuSTAR | LMU | MPE | Ponti Nandra Salvato |
| Menzel, Marie-Luise | Germany | Narrow line kinematics in a spectroscopic survey of X-ray selected AGN in the XMM-XXL North | LMU | MPE | Nandra Merloni Goergakakis Salvato |
| Molaro, Margherita | Italy | Modelling the interaction of X-rays with the Interstellar Medium | LMU | MPA | Sunyaev Khatri Gilfanov Naab |
| Murillo, Nadia | Costa Rica | Multiple star formation: Chemistry, physics and coevality | Leiden University | MPE | van Dishoeck |
| Opitsch, Michael | Germany | The bar of Andromeda galaxy revealed by integral field spectroscopy | LMU | MPE | Saglia Bender Thomas Sanchez |
| Salazar, Salvador | Chile | A tomographic approach to the statistical analysis of the large-scale structure of the Universe | LMU | MPE | Sanchez Bender Phleps Saglia |
| Soraisam, Monika | India | Novae a theoretical and observational study | LMU | MPA | Sunyaev Naab Gilfanov |
| Varela, Karla | Colombia | Testing the standard GRB afterglow model with the snapshot method using multi-epoch multi-wavelength data. | TUM | MPE | Greiner Schady Diehl |
| Vasilopoulos, Georgios | Greece | Study of highly magnetised accreting neutron stars in the Magellanic Clouds and beyond | TUM | MPE | Haberl Greiner Dennerl |
| Yu, Hoi-Fung | Hongkong | Constraints on the Prompt Emission Mechanism of Gamma-Ray Bursts using Time-Resolved Spectroscopy | TUM | MPE | Greiner v. Kienlin Rau |
| Zintl, Martin | Germany | SPH simulations with GPU | LMU | USM | Burkert |