Doctoral students
- Peter Barth (1995)
- Thomas Kasper (1998)
- Friedrich Eisenbrand (2000)
- Damien Eveillard (2004)
- Abdelhalim Larhlimi (2008)
- Corinna Heldt (2010)
- Sayed-Amir Marashi (IMPRS) (2011)
- Yaron Goldstein (BMS) (2012)
- Shahrad Jamshidi (BMS) (2013)
- Arne Reimers (BMS/IMPRS) (2014)
- Laszlo David (BMS) (2014)
- Alexandra-M. Reimers (IMPRS) (2017)
- Ling Sun (CSC) (2017)
- Annika Röhl (2018)
- Lin Liu (CSC) (2020)
- Katinka Becker (CSB) (2021)
- Therese Lorenz
- Frederik Wieder
- Lars Jeschio
Co-supervised doctoral students
- Nadine Schöne (2011), with Prof. Bernd Appel
- Marvin Schulz (2012), with Prof. Edda Klipp
- Vikash Pandey (2014), with Prof. Hans Lehrach
- Hannes Klarner (2014), with Prof. Heike Siebert
- Aljoscha Palinkas (CSB) (2015), with Prof. Hermann-Georg Holzhütter
Habilitations
- Gunnar Klau (2009)
- Heike Siebert (2012)