4th IMPRS generation - starting year 2008
The year book lists all students who started as a generation in the same year.
| Last name | First name | Supervisor / institute | Thesis link |
| Angrick | Christian | Bartelmann / ITA | thesis |
| Bergfors | Carolina | Brandner / MPIA | thesis |
| Bochow | Anne | Hofmann / MPIK | thesis |
| Cisternas | Mauricio | Jahnke / MPIA | thesis |
| De Rosa | Gisella | Walter / MPIA | thesis |
| Fang | Min | Henning / MPIA | thesis |
| Follert | Roman | Herbst / MPIA | thesis |
| Gennaro | Mario | Henning / MPIA | thesis |
| Hansson | Alexander | Lisker / ARI | thesis |
| Karim | Alexander | Schinnerer / MPIA | thesis |
| Merten | Julian | Bartelmann / ITA | thesis |
| Meyer | Hagen | Lisker / ARI | thesis |
| Micic (nee Milosavljevic) |
Milica | Klessen / ITA | thesis |
| Nugroho | Dading | Jahnke / MPIA | thesis |
| Pang | Xiaoying | Grebel / ARI | thesis |
| Paudel | Sanjaya | Lisker / ARI | thesis |
| Porth | Oliver | Fendt / MPIA | thesis |
| Schleicher | Dominik | Klessen / ITA | thesis |
| Borello Schmidt | Kasper | Rix / MPIA | thesis |
| Uribe Uribe | Ana | Klahr / MPIA | thesis |
| Vaidya | Bhargav | Fendt / MPIA | thesis |
| Valente | Ana | Bartelmann / ITA | thesis |
| Voelkl | Bernd | Banerjee / ITA | // |