Forms of doctoral training Structured Doctoral Programs in Heidelberg
It is the goal of Heidelberg University to foster the establishment of elements of structured doctoral programs in all of the academic disciplines and to support the introduction and development of graduate schools, research training groups and other “structured doctoral programs”.
This corresponds to the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities (2002) and the German Rector’s Conference (2003) on the professional development of young researchers.
There are currently more than 40 structured doctoral programs involving different levels and varying elements of structure at Heidelberg University. Structured programs have been established predominantly in the natural and life sciences; however, their numbers are also increasing in the humanities, social sciences and law, where the traditional model has been individual doctoral training.
There are three different forms of structured doctoral programs:
- Graduate Schools (Graduiertenschulen) – large facilities with 150–300 doctoral candidates covering a wide range of research fields.
- Research Training Groups (Graduiertenkollegs) – medium-sized groups with 15–50 doctoral candidates. The individual dissertation topics often come from a variety of research fields and faculties but are all focused within a defined topic area.
- Research Training Groups (Promotionskollegs) – small groups with five to seven doctoral candidates covering very specific research questions.
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Director: Dr. Astrid Wind Heidelberger Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (HGGS) Phone: +49 6221 54-3783 | ||
Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Francisco Moreno-Fernández Heidelberg Centrum für Ibero-Amerika-Studien Tel. +49 6221 54-19330 | ||
Administrative Manager: Dr. Oliver Lamers Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies | HCTS Phone: +49 6221 54-4005 | ||
Coordinator: Dr. Natalie Rauscher Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) Phone: +49 6221 54-3878 | ||
Historisches Seminar Program coordinator: Prof. Dr. Thomas Maissen Academic advisor: Florian Pfeiffer, M.A. | ||
Programme coordinator: Mirjam Mosig Theologische Fakultät Phone: +49 6221 54-3371 | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexis Maizel, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Frischknecht Universität Heidelberg Phone: +49 6221 54-6720 | ||
Coordinator: Dr. Mandy Skunde Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg Phone: +49 6221 56-37255 | ||
Managing director: Scientific coordinator: Contact (STMM office) | ||
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Karen Bieback Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Rudolf | ||
Coordinator: Dr. Lindsay Murrells German Cancer Research Center (M070) Phone: +49 6221 42-2141 | ||
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Sabine Strahl Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Phone: +49 6221 54-6286 | ||
Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie (ZMBH) Contacts: Dr. Ralf Tolle Prof. Dr. Elmar Schiebel | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schuster Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften (IZN) Tel.: +49 6221 54 - 16503 | ||
Contact: Dr. Ilka Rebhan Department Molecular Virology Phone: +49 6221 56-4225 | ||
Coordinator: Dr. Kai Breuhahn Institut für Pathologie Phone: +49 6221 56-4675 | ||
Contact: Dr. John Wray Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung (MPImF) Phone: +49 6221 486-277 | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Thilo Hackert Chirurgische Klinik Phone: +49 6221 56-35695 (Dr. med. Heger) | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach Institut für Umweltphysik Phone: +49 6221 54 - 6331 Office: | ||
Director: Prof. Dr. Robert Scheichl Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp) Phone: +49 6221 54 - 4981 | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ekkehart Reimer, Prof. Dr. Michael Gertz Juristische Fakultät Phone: +49 6221 54-7467 | ||
Speaker: Prof. Hans-Walter Rix Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Manfred Lindner IMPRS-PTFS Phone: +49 6221 516-800 | ||
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Christoph H. Keitel IMPRS-QD | ||
Sprecher: Prof. Dr. Ursula Kummer BioQuant Phone: +49 6221 54-51278 |