Structure
Structure and organization of the Graduate Academy
Tafel mit Hierarchiebaum
The Graduate Academy is led by a scientific director. Typically, the Vice President for Young Researchers of University of Jena is appointed for this position. The scientific director is responsible for the close connection to the university leadership and is primarily responsible for the strategic orientation.
In addition, there are the Executive Committee and the Board of the Academy. The latter meets twice a year and is mainly active in the admission and evaluation of member institutions as well as in an advisory capacity. The operational management of the Graduate Academy is organised by an administrative office. Since August 2016, the office is led by a joint board of two female directors.
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Composition
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The Executive Committee consists of the scientific director and two deputies. They are elected from among the group of professors. The deputies must be spokesperson of a graduate school or a research training group. The Executive Committee is elected by the Board of the Academy. It is a four-year term.
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Members
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- Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner (Scientific Director)
- Prof. Dr. Kirsten Küsel
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Ralf Koerrenz
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Composition
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All status and subject groups of the member institutions are represented in the Board of the Academy. The allocation of seats is conducted according to five selective groups:
- Professors of natural sciences, mathematics and informatics (3 seats)
- Professors of humanities and social sciences (3 seats)
- Postdocs (1 seat)
- Doctoral candidates of natural sciences, mathematics and informatics (2 seats)
- Doctoral candidates of humanities and social sciences (1 seat)
Members of the Graduate Academy's member institutions associated with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena elect the representatives of their respective voting group. The term of the professors' representatives amounts to three years, the term of the young researchers' representatives amount to one year.
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Members
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Current members with voting right:
- Prof. Dr. Uwe Cantner (as Scientific Director)
- Prof. Dr. Joachim Denzler (Deputies: Prof. Dr. Dorothee D. Haroske, Prof. Dr. Regine Heller)
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Ralf Koerrenz
- Prof. Dr. Erika Kothe (Deputy: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Küsel)
- Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Neyer (Deputy: Prof. Dr. Miriam Rose de)
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Ohler (Deputy: Prof. Dr. Mirka Dickel de)
- Prof. Dr. Felix Schacher de (Deputy: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dietzek de)
- Charalampos Karpouchtsis (Deputy: Güneş Daşlı)
- Philip Dörr
- Patrick Bareinz (Deputy: Fabian Könings, Jana Schütz)
- Dr. Martin Kalthaus (Deputy: Dr. Maria Greve)
Members in an advisory capacity:
- Dr. Gunda Huskobla - Administrative director of Graduate Academy
The results of the elections for the Board of the Graduate Academy can be found here.
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Meetings
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The Board of the Academy meets at least twice a year. The invitations and minutes of the meetings can be found here.
The administrative office is the central service institution for doctoral researchers and postdocs at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. It connects and advises the member institutions of the Graduate Academy. It also supports the strategic activities of the Vice President for Young Researchers and Diversity Management.
You can find the staff of the office here.
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Graduate schools
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Abbe School of Photonics
(Natural and life sciences)- Fraunhofer Graduiertenschule für Angewandte Photonik
- Integrated Research Training Group of Transregional Collaborative Research Center 234 "Catalight"
- Integrated Research Training Group of Collaborative Research Center 1375 "NOA"
Graduate school at German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (yDiv)
(Natural and life sciences)Graduate school "Human Behaviour in Social and Economic Change"
(Social and behavioural sciences, economics)- Center for Applied Developmental Science (CADS)
- DFG Research Unit "Person Perception" (DFG CRU 1097)
- Graduate College (DFG RTG 1411) "The Economics of Innovative Change" (EIC)
Jena School for Microbial Communication
(Natural and life sciences)- International Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions
- International Max Planck Research School "The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques"
- InfectControl (TFP)
- InfectoOptics
Jena School of Molecular Medicine
(Natural and life sciences)- Research Training Group of the Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC-RTG)
- Else Kröner Promotionskolleg "Jena School for Ageing Medicine" (JSAM)
- Graduate Programme of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research (IZKF)
- Leibniz Graduate School on Ageing and Age-Related Diseases (LGSA)
- Research Training Group 1715 "Adaptive Stress Responses" (RTG 1715)
- Research Training Group 2155 "ProMoAge"
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Research training groups
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DFG-Research Training Group 2041 "Modell "Romantik". Variation - Reichweite - Aktualität"
Doctoral school of the Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena
Doctoral school of the Jena Center "Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts"
Doctoral school of the Michael Stifel Center Jena
Doctoral programme "Religion-Conflict-Reconciliation"
Frege Kolleg - Doctoral programme of the Faculty for mathematics and computer science de
Integrated Research Training Group "AquaDiva"
Integrated Research Training Group of CRC 1278 "Polytarget"
International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles
International Max Planck Research School for the Science of Human History
Max-Planck-School of Photonics
Research Training Group "Advanced Photon Science" of the Helmholtz Institute Jena
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How to become a member of Graduate Academy
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All doctoral programmes can become member institutions of the Graduate Academy.
As part of the admission procedure, the Board of the Academy examines whether the conception of the doctoral programme meets university-wide binding quality standards in doctoral qualification. Accordingly, membership of the Graduate Academy represents a seal of quality. If you have any questions regarding the admission of a doctoral programme to the Graduate Academy, please contact Dr. Gunda Huskobla.
In the interests of quality assurance, all member programmes of the Graduate Academy are to be evaluated regularly. For this purpose, the principles of the evaluation procedure (in German) were established in 2018.
Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC)
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