The members of the PhD student council are your contacts for all aspects of your doctorate. We represent the interests of doctoral students in various university committees and are always available to answer any questions you may have about your doctorate. We always welcome your input and, of course, new members!

If you would like to get to know us better, please come along to one of our meetings or talk to us directly. We have briefly summarized how best to do this and who exactly we are on this page.

E-mail: promovertretung@tu-ilmenau.de

Meetings: Mondays in the odd-numbered week from 5:15 p.m. in room Helmholtzbau H 1548.

The PhD student council represents the interests of doctoral students at TU Ilmenau, campaigns for better working and general conditions for doctoral students, deals with state and university policy issues that specifically affect doctoral students and is the point of contact for all members of the doctoral student body.

It was introduced with the new Thuringian Higher Education Act (ThürHG), which came fully into force in 2019. Its members are elected by the doctoral students for a term of office of one year. The PhD student council sends representatives to all meetings of the university committees (e.g. faculty councils or senate).

The elections take place at the same time as the elections to the student councils on an annual basis. All members of the doctoral student body are entitled to vote, i.e. every person accepted as a doctoral student at a faculty. This means you do not have to be employed or enrolled at the university to exercise your active and passive voting rights!

Any member of the doctoral student body can stand as a candidate on one of the nine lists (one for each faculty, one for scholarship holders, international students, members of Research Training Groups and external doctoral students). In this way, we cover a broad spectrum of opinions as well as many different experiences and work situations in the representation.

Those with the most votes on their list are elected; those with the second most votes are elected as deputies. In addition, the PhD student council is always happy to hear from interested parties who would like to support our work or find out more about it.

You can always find up-to-date information and possible last-minute changes to our next meetings via writing us an e-mail. In our meetings you can easily get in touch with other doctoral candidates at our university, network and generally ask your questions. In addition, we try to keep you up to date on all relevant events for doctoral students.

You can also check out our social media pages on LinkedIn and Instagram. Here you will get exciting insights into our work and information about current events!