About us
We are a central resource for information on doctoral degrees, postdoctoral research, heads of junior research groups, junior professorships, and the supervision of doctoral degrees and habilitations. We function as an umbrella organization for all structured doctoral programs.
We support and advise early career researchers and their supervisors on the following topics:
- Professional development for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, habilitation candidates, heads of junior research groups and assistant professors
- Academic careers
- Supervising doctoral degrees and habilitations
- Advice about completing a doctoral degree
- Administrative matters relating to completing a doctoral degree
- Bi-national doctoral degrees
- Good scientific practice
- Networking
Chairperson
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch
Vice President People Executive Board
Contact
- Email: praesidium-assistenz@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-26600Phone: +49 9131 85-29333
Faculty representatives
Prof. Dr. Dominik Müller
Professors Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology (Heisenberg Professorship)
Contact
- Email: dominik.m.mueller@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Heinrich de Wall
Professors Chair of Ecclesiastical Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law
Contact
- Email: heinrich.de.wall@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Nicole Koschate-Fischer
Professors GfK Endowed Chair of Marketing Intelligence
Contact
Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Leven
Professors Chair of the History of Medicine
Contact
- Email: karl-heinz.leven@fau.de
Prof. Dr. rer. nat Christoph Bert
Professors Professorship for Medical Radiation Physics
Contact
- Email: christoph.bert@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-44213
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Achtziger
Professors Professorship for Applied Mathematics
Contact
- Email: wolfgang.achtziger@fau.de
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Knut Graichen
Professors Chair of Automatic Control
Contact
- Email: knut.graichen@fau.de
Research staff representative
Nicolai von Schroeders
Research associates Chair of Mathematics Education Research
Contact
- Email: nicolai.von.schroeders@fau.de
- Phone: +49 911 5302 -95394
Doctoral candidates’ representatives
Kian Schmalenbach
Research associates Schöller Endowed Chair of Information Systems (Digitalization in Business and Society)
Contact
- Email: kian.schmalenbach@fau.de
Timo Schwall
Research associates Chair of Smart Electronics and Systems
Contact
- Email: timo.schwall@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-27655
Director of the Graduate Center
Dr. Christian Schmitt-Engel
Administrative staff Research and Early Career Support
Contact
- Email: christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20722
Our motivated team includes members from business and economics, the humanities and social sciences, the sciences and engineering.
We are always here to help, regardless of which subject you are pursuing an academic career in.
Dr. Christian Schmitt-Engel
Contact
- Email: christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20722
Dr. Henriette Müller-Ahrndt
Contact
- Email: henriette.mueller-ahrndt@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-22807
Dr. Silke Schnurbusch
Contact
- Email: silke.schnurbusch@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20699
Dr. Elena Zeißler
Contact
- Email: elena.zeissler@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20260
Kerstin Puls
Contact
- Email: kerstin.puls@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20721
Christa Schmidt
Contact
- Email: christa.schmidt@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20724
Athanasia Pliakogianni
Contact
- Email: nasia.pliakogianni@fau.deEmail: eti@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20720
Dr. Christopher Kearney
Contact
- Email: christopher.kearney@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-71363
Julia Drafz
Contact
- Email: julia.drafz@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-71366
Office of Doctoral Affairs at the Graduate Center
Silke Brownlie
Contact
- Email: promotion-zulassung@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-24163
Helge Weiland
Contact
- Email: promotion-phil-theol@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-26402
Irene Deger
Contact
- Email: promotion-nat@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-26003
Naemi Wagner
Contact
- Email: promotion-med@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-22341
Contact
Early Career Support
Contact
- Email: graduiertenzentrum@fau.de
- Phone: +49 9131 85-20724
How to find us
Visitors’ address: Bahnhofplatz 2, 91054 Erlangen
Postal address: Freyeslebenstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen