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 TUD 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 Rectorate appoints the members of the executive committee.

Members of the executive committee:

Director: Prof. Angela Rösen-Wolff, Vice-Rector Research and Technology Transfer
Deputy: Prof. Niels Modler, Vice-Rector Academic Affairs and Lifelong Learning
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. Inez Weidinger
Representative of the DRESDEN-concept partner institutions: Prof. Christoph Leyens
The speaker of the Doctoral Council: Michael Krell
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)
Robert Denk
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 TUD doctoral candidates. Its main aim is to ensure a better network of doctoral candidates at our University, identify common interests, and advocate for these.

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

You can 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 Engineering)
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, identify common interests, and 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 TUD.

The spokesperson elected by the Postdoc Council is a member of the GA Executive Committee with voting rights for the term of office of the Postdoc Council.

You can 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)