WANTED: SUPER SUPERVISOR 2025

Supervision ^EXCELLENT

We established our Supervisory Award in 2017 to spotlight the importance of good supervision for doctoral candidates, making TU Dresden one of the first universities in Germany to establish such a prize.

We also offer a range of workshops on “Excellent Supervision” for supervisors, postdocs, and doctoral candidates.

Your Super Supervisor

• Does your doctoral supervisor inspire you?
• Does he/she answer all your questions?
• Are you receiving (or have you received) reliable guidance for your career?
• Is the constructive exchange of ideas and transparent communication a given?

Requirements

• All TU Dresden doctoral students and postdocs whose doctorate was completed no more than five years ago and who are/ were members of the Graduate Academy are eligible to submit nominations.
• Nominations are accepted for supervisors (professors and TUD Young Investigators)
  of the TU Dresden and the DRESDEN concept partners only.
   

Nominate your doctoral supervisor!

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Tell us your specific and very personal reasons why your supervisor deserves the award and fill out our online nomination form by December 6, 2024.

Tip: Use a Word document to prepare your explanatory statements.

Important: Your nomination is valid only with a declaration of consent.

Please send your declaration via email to 
The deadline for submitting the signed declaration of consent has been extended to December 16, 2024!

Selection

The Board of the Graduate Academy will select the winner from the submitted nominations.

Award

The prize money of 3,000 euros is intended to support young researchers
and can be expanded for scientific purposes within 2025.

Awardees (2017 – 2024)

GA Supervisory Award 2017
GA Supervisory Award 2018
GA Supervisory Award 2019
GA Supervisory Award 2020
GA Supervisory Award 2021
GA Supervisory Award 2022
GA Supervisory Award 2023
GA Supervisory Award 2024

Do you have any questions?
Please get in touch!

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Deputy Head of Unit

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Angela Böhm M.A.

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