Supervision

Supervision Agreement

Every doctoral researcher is assigned to one of the principal investigators who serves as the main supervisor for the doctoral studies. Additionally, a co-supervisor is defined for each doctoral candidate, whereby the co-supervisor typically is a principal investigator of a collaborating research project. The major role of the co-supervisor is to monitor the progress of the doctoral student and provide feedback from a more general perspective. As recommended by the DFG and the Graduate Academy (TUD), the doctoral researcher and the two supervisors sign the supervision agreement ( Supervision agreement.pdf) and submit this to the coordinator of the MGK-2DMs within the first 3 months of the doctoral studies. 

Thesis Advisory Meeting

On a yearly basis the doctoral researcher has the obligation to organize a thesis advisory meeting  to present the research results of the last year. Afterwards, both supervisors will give their feedback in an evaluation form ( Evaluation Form.pdf) which will be submitted to the MGK-2DMs coordinator.

Progress report

The doctoral researcher has the obligation to prepare a 5 pages annual research report (Progress Report_Template.docx) and submit it to  the MGK-2DMs coordinator.