Graduate School – General Information

All doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on an IntCDC Research Project, associated projects or in ArchIDA research associations, who are supervised by an IntCDC Principal Investigator or similar can apply for membership and access support measures. 

The Graduate School IntCDC is headed by the IntCDC Commission for Early Career Support, which is responsible for its strategic development, its training programme and further support measures and activities. The current members of the commission are:

• Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp – Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Commission
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfred Bischoff – Principal Investigator
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Volker Schwieger – Principal Investigator
• Dr. Li Zhang – permanent representative of Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp
  
• Gili Ron – Representative of the Early Career Board
• Shermin Sherkat – Representative of the Early Career Board
• Benedikt Strahm – Representative of the Early Career Board
• Karolin Tampe-Mai – Early Career Manager (in advisory capacity)

The Graduate School IntCDC offers our doctoral researchers close support in completing their doctorate with excellent success and prepares them for the challenges and opportunities of future career paths. Regular Status Seminars, Colloquia and a core curriculum ensure close, structured guidance and full integration into the IntCDC community and research framework. Additional courses and activities allow to tailor the qualification programme to their specific research and career goals.

Emhasising interdisciplinarity, every doctoral candidate is advised by two IntCDC supervisors with complementary disciplinary expertise, one of whom functions as main supervisor. 

All doctoral researchers of the Graduate School IntCDC complete a “milestone presentation” where they review and discuss their achievements and progress and adjust the remaining research plan in conversation with both of their IntCDC supervisors.

To offer further guidance to our doctoral researchers in their work at the Cluster and beyond, we have formulated the following core curriculum for doctoral studies in the Graduate School IntCDC:

• participation in an IntCDC interdisciplinary early career seminar;
• participation in an IntCDC summer school, an IntCDC conference or an equivalent scientific event in the research field of IntCDC;
• participation in a key skills workshop on “Good Scientific Practice”.

To learn more about the general framework of doctoral studies at the University of Stuttgart, please click here or contact the Graduate Academy (GRADUS).

For more detailed information on doctoral studies in the Graduate School IntCDC, please refer to the Regulations for the Graduate School IntCDC or contact the Cluster’s Early Career Manager, Karolin Tampe-Mai.