1st IMPRS generation - starting year 2005
The year book lists all students who started as a generation in the same year.
| Last name | First name | Supervisor / institute | Thesis link |
| Anguita | Timo | Wambsganss /ARI | thesis |
| Barnabe-Heider | Marik | Schoenert / MPIK | thesis |
| Bocchi | Matteo | Camenzind / LSW | thesis |
| Boudreault | Steve | Bailer Jones / MPIA | thesis |
| Budjas | Dusan | Hampel / MPIK | thesis |
| Chen | Xuepeng | Henning / MPIA | thesis |
| Esquivel | Oscar | Fuchs / ARI | thesis |
| Franco Rico | Isabel | Lisker / ARI | thesis |
| Golombek | Irina | Bartelmann / ITA | thesis |
| Heinzeller | Dominikus | Duschl / ITA | thesis |
| Hennemann | Martin | Lemke / MPIA | thesis |
| Hnatic | Slavomir | Aharonian / MPIK | thesis |
| Janson | Markus | Brandner / MPIA | thesis |
| Mignone | Claudia | Bartelmann / ITA | thesis |
| Nicol | Marie-Helene | Meisenheimer / MPIA | thesis |
| O’Sullivan | Jamie | Camenzind / LSW | thesis |
| Rodriguez | Victoria | Mundt / MPIA | thesis |
| Schwemmer | Stefanie | Wagner / LSW | // |
| Smolcic | Vernesa | Schinnerer / MPIA | thesis |
| Tam | Pak Hin | Wagner / LSW | thesis |
| Vannoni | Giulia | Aharonian / MPIK | thesis |
| Zatloukal | Michael | Roeser / MPIA | thesis |
| Zhukovska | Svitlana | Gail / ITA | thesis |
| Ziegler | Emanuel | Bartelmann / ITA | // |
| Zub | Marta | Wambsganss / ARI | thesis |