Petra Schwendner (Section CBB), Sergey Rosbakh (Section MEE), Bernd Reisinger (Section CBB), Ingrid Waege (Section CBB), Sebastian Peters (Section Neurobiology), Andreas Schmid (Section BIOMED), Jan-Oliver Janda (Section CBB), Philipp Alter (Section CBB), Philipp Tauber (Section BIOMED), David Peterhoff (Section CBB), Clara Perani (Section Neurobiology), Jörg Köhler (Section CBB), Anja Kammler (Section Biomedicine), Alexander Probst (Section CBB) and Andreas Bosch (Section CBB) successfully defended their PhD thesis in March, April and May 2014. We congratulate them for their excellent performance and wish them all the best for their future career.