Structure of the Graduate Academy
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Statutes
The statutes of the Graduate Academy (in German, English version to follow shortly) were issued by the Academic Senate of TU Dresden on 31st 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. Florian Bruns
- 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: Jasmin Stein
- The speaker of the Postdoc Council: Dr. Samuel Cosper
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. Natascha Eckert
Siemens AG, Global Head of University Relations - Dr. Ronald Werner
Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art (SMWK) - Matthias Mayer
Körber-Stiftung Hamburg, Head of Department Science
Office
The GA office is responsible for running all current affairs. Here, you can find all information on the team of the Graduate Academy.
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 elected 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:
- Ankit Anil Chaudhari ( Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences )
- Heiner Bauer ( Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering )
- Felix Beyer (Faculty of Architecture)
- Carolin Deuter (Faculty of Mechanical Sciences and Enginieering)
- Paul Heber (Faculty of Civil Engineering)
- Karolin Küster (Faculty of Biology)
- Michael Krell (Faculty of Environmental Sciences) - Speaker
- Elizabeth Michels (Faculty of Psychology)
- Peter Rothe (Faculty of Environmental Sciences) - Deputy
- Philipp Hanisch (Faculty of Computer Science)
- Nelly Saibel (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science)
- István Simon (Faculty of Economics)
- Maren Weissig (Faculty of Architecture)
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 postdoc GA members once a year and is composed of up to eleven postdoc representatives. If possible, these representatives should broadly cover the spectrum of disciplines at TU Dresden.
The spokesperson elected 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. Ismail Bayram (Faculty of Psychology) - Deputy
- Dr. Samuel Cosper (Faculty of Psychology) - Speaker
- Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand (Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH))
- Dr. Mangesh D. Ratolikar (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering)
- Dr. Martin Zwanzig (Faculty of Environmental Sciences)