Election 2024
The next election for new postdoc representatives will be held on June 10 - 12, 2024.
Presentation of the candidates |
- Candidate until 24 May 2024, including a short text on your motivation, by sending an email to .
- Prerequisite for candidacy as well as participation in the elections is a membership as a postdoc in the Graduate Academy; this applies to both full and associate members.
- The legislative period lasts for 1 year.
- Up to 11 representatives from all disciplines are elected to the committee.
- Our working procedure: You can read about our range of tasks in our rules of procedure. We meet virtually once a month and the members take on individual tasks between the meetings depending on their area of responsibility, capacities and work in a self-organised manner.
The postdoc council exists for two years now. It is one of the few already established and elected postdoc representations in Germany. As such, it takes on a sort of pioneering role that all its members can actively help shape.
In the last legislative period, among other tasks, we have
- acted as a contact point and information hub for postdocs by perceiving and communicating their challenges, needs and wishes
- represented the interests of postdocs in various decision-making processes of TU Dresden, HZDR and especially the Graduate Academy (GA),
- facilitated networking among postdocs by hosting various events
- established a network of postdoc councils in Germany to exchange experiences and perspectives on committee work and postdoc topics at national level
Would you like to become a member and contribute shaping the postdoc council, advocate for the interests of postdocs, promote interdisciplinary exchange and actively participate in the GA decision-making processes? Are you interested in gaining insights into various academic processes and experience in committee work that is an essential aspect for your academic CV? Then run for the upcoming elections for becoming a postdoc council member!
Do you have any questions?
Just write us an email to or contact one of our members directly.
We invite you all to follow and join our work in this election period to get to know the council and decide if you'd like to candidate in 2024.