The IntCDC Graduate School provides doctoral and postdoctoral researchers with access to a highly interdisciplinary, IntCDC-specific training programme. This includes measures to support early academic independence, various mobility options and assistance in future career planning.
Training Programme
The Graduate School’s interdisciplinary training programme is tailored to our early career researchers’ needs and designed to deepen their scientific knowledge and professional skills.
Interdisciplinary Early Career Seminars
The seminars convey theoretical and methodological skills central to the IntCDC research programme, complementing and expanding the disciplinary approaches of our early career researchers. Usually they are taught by IntCDC Principal Investigators and Participating Researchers. The seminar topics are conceptualized to guarantee a close fit to our current research questions.
In the Early Career meets Visiting Professor (ECxVP) seminars, early career researchers present their projects and exchange ideas with the top researchers in the field. They discuss research questions and career paths, job, funding and publication opportunities with the visiting professors and receive excellent supervision and individual coaching in small groups.
Recent Early Career x Visiting Professor (ECxVP)
Past Early Career x Visiting Professor (ECxVP)
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IntCDC Key Skills Workshops
In collaboration with the IntCDC departments of PR, Communication, Research Data and Software Engineering, the IntCDC Graduate School offers key skills workshops to foster methodological and technical skills relevant to IntCDC.
Visiting IntCDC Institutes Networking Program (ViNe)
ViNe aims to promote mutual acquaintance, interdisciplinary exchange and cross-disciplinary understanding among the early career researchers of the Cluster.
A lecture by the heads of the participating institutes (Principal Investigator or Participating Researcher) introducing their institute and research area and explaining its disciplinary characteristics is followed by a guided tour of the institute and laboratories.
Further information and schedule can be found on Confluence.
IntCDC Career Talks
This exclusive and personal format focuses on a specific career field and connects our researchers to alumni, who share their experience of successfully working in this area.
IntCDC Constructive Conversations
The Cluster's expert guest lecture series "IntCDC Constructive Conversations" ensures close interaction with the wider research community and industry experts to discuss current issues and challenges in the field of IntCDC. Learn more.
IntCDC Get Together
The IntCDC „Get Together“ (formerly "Kaffeeklatsch”), in cooperation with EO and Diversity Management, are biannual informal meetings, aimed at community building, networking, sharing insights and experiences, and enjoying each other’s company.
EXC Start-Up Series
The Cluster promotes an active start-up culture in order to spin off and transfer knowledge to industry. Learn more about the EXC Start-Up Series.
Postdoc Support
Beyond the general programme of the Graduate School, we offer our postdoctoral researchers specific support in building a network and visibility to reach their individual career goals within or beyond academia.
IntCDC Postdoc Meeting & Info Session “Habilitation – Requirements, Procedures, Prospects”
Dr. Jürgen Hädrich (GRADUS)
Info Session “National and EU Funding Opportunities for Postdocs”
Dr. Bettina Ahrens-Diez (Project Office), Heinke Claß (EU Office)
IntCDC NextGen Leadership Program
NextGen is IntCDC’s Leadership Programme to support high potential junior academics all the way to an academic leadership position. The programme considers three elements: mentoring, qualification and exchange. Towards the end of this programme, participants are expected to apply to at least one leadership or to a more advanced position (e.g. junior professorship) in Germany or abroad. Through this strategy, we intend to expand our IntCDC network, spread our vision and share it with future generations of young academics in Stuttgart and worldwide. Learn more
Successful IntCDC Alumni Researchers
A significant number of former IntCDC PhDs have now attained senior roles as postdoctoral researchers in academia and high-level positions in industry. Just to name a few:
Mobility and Networking Opportunities
We support our early career researchers in gaining international experience and building worldwide networks through international research stays and workshops with our academic partners and industry secondments and mentoring opportunities in collaboration with our industry partners.
AdvanceAEC
The “Research Network for Advancing Architecture, Engineering and Construction” (AdvanceAEC), of which IntCDC is a founding partner, offers our early career researchers further training and facilitates both guided but also individual networking opportunities. AdvanceAEC brings together national and international researchers in the fields of architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, robotics and social sciences.
AdvanceAEC Autumn School 2022
IntCDC hosted the first AdvanceAEC Autumn School in 2022 which layed the foundation for a biannually recurring format.
Royal Danish Academy. The PhD School.
The Royal Danish Academy is a partner university of IntCDC and opens some offers to the early career researchers, for example the PhD course "sustainable futures III” The Science Track is led by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (member of the IntCDC Advisory Board) and Martin Tamke (one of our Visiting Professors). Learn more
IMPRS-IS International Max Planck Research School
IntCDC researchers who work on machine-learning-related topics can join the IMPRS-IS International Max Planck Research School (faculty includes PI/PRs K. Kuchenbecker, M. Sedlmair, M. Niepert, A. Verl, A. Wortmann, T. Wortmann. Learn more
Karolin Tampe-Mai
Dipl.-Ing.Graduate School & Early Career