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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

AH

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

DM

Prof. Dr. Dominik Müller

Professors Chair of Cultural and Social Anthropology (Heisenberg Professorship)

Contact

  • Email: dominik.m.mueller@fau.de
HdW

Prof. Dr. Heinrich de Wall

Professors Chair of Ecclesiastical Law, Constitutional Law and Administrative Law

Contact

  • Email: heinrich.de.wall@fau.de
NK

Prof. Dr. Nicole Koschate-Fischer

Professors GfK Endowed Chair of Marketing Intelligence

Contact

  • Email: wiso-sekretariat-koschate-fischer@fau.de
KL

Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Leven

Professors Chair of the History of Medicine

Contact

  • Email: karl-heinz.leven@fau.de
CB

Prof. Dr. rer. nat Christoph Bert

Professors Professorship for Medical Radiation Physics

Contact

  • Email: christoph.bert@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-44213
WA

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Achtziger

Professors Professorship for Applied Mathematics

Contact

  • Email: wolfgang.achtziger@fau.de
KG

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Knut Graichen

Professors Chair of Automatic Control

Contact

  • Email: knut.graichen@fau.de

Research staff representative

NvS

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

KS

Kian Schmalenbach

Research associates Schöller Endowed Chair of Information Systems (Digitalization in Business and Society)

Contact

  • Email: kian.schmalenbach@fau.de
TS

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

CS

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.

CS

Dr. Christian Schmitt-Engel

Contact

  • Email: christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-20722
HM

Dr. Henriette Müller-Ahrndt

Contact

  • Email: henriette.mueller-ahrndt@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-22807
SS

Dr. Silke Schnurbusch

Contact

  • Email: silke.schnurbusch@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-20699
EZ

Dr. Elena Zeißler

Contact

  • Email: elena.zeissler@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-20260
KP

Kerstin Puls

Contact

  • Email: kerstin.puls@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-20721
CS

Christa Schmidt

Contact

  • Email: christa.schmidt@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-20724
AP

Athanasia Pliakogianni

Contact

  • Email: nasia.pliakogianni@fau.deEmail: eti@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-20720
CK

Dr. Christopher Kearney

Contact

  • Email: christopher.kearney@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-71363
JD

Julia Drafz

Contact

  • Email: julia.drafz@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-71366

Office of Doctoral Affairs at the Graduate Center

SB

Silke Brownlie

Contact

  • Email: promotion-zulassung@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-24163
HW

Helge Weiland

Contact

  • Email: promotion-phil-theol@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-26402
ID

Irene Deger

Contact

  • Email: promotion-nat@fau.de
  • Phone: +49 9131 85-26003
NW

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


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