Structure of the Graduate Academy

Table of contents

1. 1. 1. Statutes
      2. Executive Committee
         1. Members of the executive committee:
      3. Board
      4. Office
      5. Doctoral Council
         1. Members of the Doctoral Council:
      6. Postdoc Council
         1. Members of the Postdoc Council:

Statutes

The statutes of the Graduate Academy (in German, English version to follow shortly) were issued by the Academic Senate of TU Dresden on 31^st May 2013. They regulate the objectives and administrative structure of the GA.

Executive Committee

The GA is headed by an executive committee. According to the statutes the members of the executive committee are appointed by the Rectorate.

Members of the executive committee:

• Director: Prof. Angela Rösen-Wolff, Vice-Rector Research
• Deputy: Prof. Michael Kobel, Vice-Rector Academic Affairs
• Directorate 5 - Research: Dr. Katrin Jordan
• School of Medicine: Prof. Rolf Jessberger
• School of Engineering Sciences: Prof. Franz Baader
• School of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Prof. Martin Horwath
• School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Prof. Marina Münkler
• School of Science: Prof. Alexander Strobel
• Representative of the Speakers of structured PhD programs: Prof. Viktor Mechtcherine
• Representative of the DRESDEN-concept partner institutions: Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt
• The speaker of the Doctoral Council: Maren Weissig
• The speaker of the Postdoc Council: Dr. Martin Zwanzig

Board

Members of the board:

• Prof. Gerhard Rödel

  DRESDEN-concept e.V.

• Prof. Brigitte Voit
  Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF)
• Prof. Erika Kothe
  Professor of Microbial Communication, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
• Prof. Enrico Schleiff
  President Goethe-University Frankfurt (01/21)
• Dr. Gerrit Rößler

  Head of the Expertise and Knowledge Exchange Office of the Berlin University Alliance

• Dr. Natascha Eckert
  Siemens AG, Global Head of University Relations

• Dr. Ronald Werner
  Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art (SMWK)

Office

The GA office is responsible for running all current affairs. You will find all information about the team of the Graduate Academy here.

Doctoral Council

The Doctoral Council is the official representation of all doctoral candidates of TU Dresden. Its main aim is to ensure a better network of doctoral candidates at our University in order to identify common interests and to speak up for these.

The Doctoral Council is elected by the doctoral candidates of TU Dresden once a year and composed of up to 17 doctoral candidates. The spokesperson chosen by the Doctoral Council is member of the GA Executive Committee with voting rights for the term of office of the Doctoral Council.

You find further information and contacts on the websites of the Doctoral Council.

Members of the Doctoral Council:

• Jasmin Stein (Faculty of Psychology)
• Aydin Homay (Faculty of Computer Science)
• Shamini Ramkumar Thirumalasetty (Faculty of Medicine)
• Nils Kretzschmar (Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry)
• István Simon (Faculty of Economics, Deputy)
• Viacheslav Markin (Faculty of Civil Engineering)
• Talika Neuendorf (Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry)
• Hifsa Pervez (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering)
• Preetam Dacha ( Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering )
• Majka Hausen (Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies )
• Riyan Habeeb (Faculty of Architecture)
• Maren Weissig (Faculty of Architecture, Spokesperson)
• Isabell Lippert (Faculty of Economics)

Postdoc Council

The Postdoc Council is the official representation of all postdoc members of the GA . Its main aim is to ensure a better network of postdoc candidates across disciplines in order to identify common interests and to speak up for these.

The Postdoc Council is elected by the the postoc GA members once a year and is composed of up to eleven postdoc representatives. The spokesperson chosen by the Postdoc Council is member of the GA Executive Committee with voting rights for the term of office of the Postdoc Council.

You find further information and contacts on the websites of the Postdoc Council.

Members of the Postdoc Council:

• Dr. Jagoda Cupać (Institute of Building Construction, Faculty of Civil Engineering)
• Dr. Eric Hirschmann (Institute of Radiation Physics, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)
• Dr. Martin Zwanzig (Chair of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis, Faculty of Environmental Sciences)
• Dr. Georgios Tzortzinis (Dresden Center for Intelligent Materials, Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering)

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