| Name | Country of origin | Subject of dissertation | Conferring university | Institute | Thesis committe |
| Biltzinger, Björn | Germany | New insights in gamma-ray astrophysics with modern analysis concepts | TUM | MPE | Greiner Oberauer |
| Cernetic, Miha | Slovenia | High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Hydrodynamics for Supersonic Astrophysical Turbulence | LMU | MPA | Springel Naab Komatsu |
| Chaturvedi, Avinash | India | A dynamical mass map of the Fornax cluster | LMU | ESO | Burkert Hilker Lyubenova van de Ven |
| Girdhar, Aishwarya | India | Multiwavelength analysis of the Active Galactic Nuclei's Feedback on the evolution of quasar host galaxies | LMU | ESO | Burkert Mainieri Harrison Andreani Merloni |
| Hernández Lang, Daniel | Chile | From cluster catalogs to cluster cosmology | LMU | USM | Mohr Klein Bocquet |
| Hoemann, Elena | Germany | Merging, fragmentation and collapse of interstellar filaments | LMU | USM | Burkert Caselli Testi |
| König, Pierre-Cécil | France | Improving exoplanet detection and characterisation by understanding magnetic activity jitter | Université PSL | IAP/ESO | Hussain Hébrard Boissé Mochkovitch |
| Kostyuk, Ivan | Ukraine | Investigating Lyman continuum escape fractions of high redshift galaxies during the era of reionization | LMU | MPA | Ensslin Ciardi Komatsu |
| Mayer, Martin | Germany | Connecting core-collapse supernova remnants and their central neutron stars - An X-ray study using Chandra and SRG/eROSITA | LMU | MPE | Becker Sassaki Freyberg |
| Mehrgan, Kianusch | German | The mass composition of massive early-type galaxies | LMU | MPE | Bender Saglia Thomas Sanchez |
| Muñoz Elgueta, Nahir | Chile | Multi-phase gas reservoirs in and around high-z galaxies | LMU | MPA | Arrigoni Battaia Kauffmann Komatsu |
| Ringler, Johannes | Germany | Supplementing the P-HOTB cod with angular momentum and magnetic field evolution equations | TUM | MPA | Janka Weiss Ciardi |
| Semenaite, Agne | Lithuania | Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Clustering in BOSS and eBOSS | LMU | MPE | Sánchez Grün Saglia Seitz |
| Seppi, Riccardo | Italy | Cosmology with clusters of galaxies in the eROSITA era | LMU | MPE | Nandra Comparat Bulbul Weller |
| Szakacs, Roland | Austria | Cool and Cold Gas within and surrounding Galaxies | LMU | ESO | Springel Péroux Zwaan Ivison Naab |
| Wolf, Julien | Germany/France | Tracing the Evolution of Super-Massive Black Holes through Cosmic Time with Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei | LMU | MPE | Nandra Salvato Merloni Padovani |
| Zamponi Fuentealba, Joaquin | Chile | Comparing real and synthetic observations of protostellar disks | LMU | MPE | Caselli Maureira Zhao Segura-Cox Grassi |
| Zier, Oliver | Germany | Taming rotationally supported disks using state of the art numerical methods | LMU | MPA | Springel Pakmor Komatsu |