Structure of the Graduate Academy

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. 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:

Jasmin Stein (Faculty of Psychology, Speaker)
Belkais Kebir (Faculty of Education)
Iman Shabanilemraski (Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering)
Najiba Sharaf (Faculty of Education)
Shamini Ramkumar Thirumalasetty (Faculty of Medicine)
István Simon (Faculty of Economics, Deputy)
Gundula Thiele (Faculty of Psychology)
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 and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

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. Sabine Apelt (Faculty of Mechanical Sciences and Enginieering)
Dr. Ismail Bayram (Faculty of Psychology)
Dr. Samuel Cosper (Faculty of Psychology, Speaker)
Dr. Siavash Ghiasvand (Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing | ZIH)
Dr. Martin Zwanzig (Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Deputy)