2020
Elections for the 6th Doctoral Council
The 6th Doctoral Council will be elected soon. The elections will be held online during 25.05. and 27.05.2020. All eligible voters will get an email!
Our candidates:
Lara Maliske
I’ve started doing my PhD in the beginning of 2019 at the chair for Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. Before coming to Dresden, I studied Psychology at the University of Bremen. During my studies, I have been an active member of the student government and tried to work towards making the university a more open, inclusive, and participative space for all its members. And while we (the student body) were facing relatively big problems, through working together, we managed to overcome these challenges and actively shaped life at our university. Although there are many great opportunities for support and qualification at TU Dresden for its PhD students, there are still many challenges, both inside the university and in academia as a whole, that we can only face as a collective: structural disadvantages and discrimination, steep hierarchical structures in academia fostering misuse of power, precarious working conditions, and many others. I want to help to make TU Dresden an open, supportive community for all its members. I believe the Doctoral Council is the perfect platform to work on both, problems of individual PhD students, for example managing familiar responsibilities and work, and on a structural level in university groups, and would therefore love the opportunity to be a part of it.
Felix Schilk
My name is Felix Schilk, I‘ve been doing my PhD at the Institute of Sociology at the TUD for two years now and am currently a lucky scholarship-receiver of the Hans Böckler Foundation. As a part of the Doctoral Council, I‘d like to continue the low-threshold exchange formats such as the DDocs Café, to bring in a new perspective from humanities and social sciences and, as a long-term GEW member, to deepen the cooperation with the trade unions and their university groups. I am looking forward to getting to know you personally at the upcoming formats!
Mrinali Rochlani
I am a PhD student from the Department of Civil Engineering. I come from India and have been studying at TU Dresden for almost 4 years now. I was already a part of the DDocs council last year; it was a great experience to meet, network and discuss the struggles of PhD students of TU Dresden. DDocs is a great platform to find solutions together and to find more ways for networking, collaborating and providing the much needed help and support during a PhD. That is the overall goal of DDocs, and that is what I would like to do.
Hendrik Malte Wenk
My name is Malte and I'm writing my dissertation in contemporary history on the neighborhood police officers in the GDR. Many of us are worried about the question of how to finance their dissertation. I had sleepless nights because of this problem, too. Therefore I want to help that more Ph. D. Students at TU Dresden obtain scholarships and that more of us can earn their money in a fair way by doing research at our Alma Mater
Alina Israfilova
My name is Alina Israfilova. I am originally from Russia and I am 27 years old. I am a former master student of TU Dresden (ACCESS international master program). In 2018 I started my PhD research in the Institute of Structural Analysis, Faculty of Civil Engineering. My Program is bi-national. Thus, I am doing my research simultaneously in University of Tyumen, Russia (it is in Siberia!) and TU Dresden. I was a member of the Council during the previous year and I am eager to keep being a part of it! The start of my doctoral studies was everything else but easy. I constantly needed assistance with documents, I struggled with language and, what was the most terrifying, I had no clear Idea how to finance my research. One of the members of the Doctoral Council told me about the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden. Thus, I discovered my salvation. Everyone who needs support or advice always can get it here. Being a part of the team of the DDocs means for me to get a chance to pay back for the help I received. Moreover, I want to stay an active, fully-functioning part of the community of the most intelligent and educated people from all around the world. I want to meet and get to know as many members of this beautiful community as possible. Being a part of the DDocs means for me to be able to be grateful to our Alma Mater and contribute to its positive image on the international academic arena.
Awais Malik
I believe that doctoral council is an exceptional platform where PhD candidates can interact not only with the members of their own field but across different fields. Networking, in my experience, is very useful as doctoral candidates have to mostly work independently, in which they try to solve the inevitable challenges of PhD journey on their own. But, interacting with other fellow candidates and opening up the communication flow provides an opportunity to come-up with unique solutions to our challenges and as well as to more interesting ideas. It also creates a sense of closed-bounded community. Therefore, using this platform of DDocs, I would like to focus to upsurge the networking opportunities between and within the international and local PhD candidates.
Maren Weissig
I have experience in student representation at UdK Berlin (arts) and at TU Berlin (architecture). My activities were, i.a., finding/hiring commissions (for professors), projects, and administrative university bodies. Currently I am working on my PhD at TU Dresden. My topic is the relation city/countryside. I have a very high motivation for research, which led me to follow a PhD. Since I have started my PhD in Dresden, I took several university courses (U Potsdam graduate school, TU Berlin Institut für Weiterbildung und Kommunikation Nachwuchswissenschaftler Innen, TU Dresden graduate school) to improve my knowledge about grant applications (DFG, EU), conflict mediation, networking and equality in science. Besides, in my network I have a rather good overview over PhD students in various disciplines, their problems, conflicts, and supervisors. This comes also from my husband, who is Chemistry Professor and supervises students, PhD - Students, since more than twenty years.
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++UPDATE: CORONA Virus++
Informations for doctoral students regarding Covid-19
Due to the emergency mode at TU Dresden, many doctoral students are currently restricted in their research work. This applies not only to use of premises such as laboratories or the SLUB, but also to financial security provided by grants. TU Dresden and other scholarship providers are currently working on solutions. Please send your inquiries directly to the advisor responsible for your respective scholarship!
Following, some general informations published by the Promovierenden-Initiative (in German). After consultation with the Graduate Academy, the recommendations for documentation of work-time delays are worth supporting. Affected doctoral students should therefore document any delays in their doctoral projects due to COVID-19.
Empfehlungen der Promovierenden-Initiative
Please also have a look at the Graduate Academy´s website. Here you can find for example offers for digital training and/or advice.
Due to Covid-19 all events of the DDocs are canceled until further notice!
Stay healthy and please feel free to contact us!
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March:
7th DDocs Café
On March 3rd, our DDocs Café will take place in Graduate Academy from 3 to 5 p.m. We would like to invite you to an informal networking event with members of the Doctoral Council and other doctoral students. Coffee and cake will be served.
