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Your next big step: with the Graduate Academy

and Postdoc Center

Interested in doctoral opportunities at TU Dresden? Have you already started your
doctorate or do you work as a postdoc at TUD? Then, the Graduate Academy and the
Postdoc Center are important contact points for you.

With the Graduate Academy (GA) and the Postdoc Center, The GA-Writing Lab offers doctoral candidates and
TU Dresden offers doctoral candidates and postdocs postdocs an interdisciplinary support program for all
tailor-made services for researchers before, during and aspects of academic writing.
after their doctorate.
They also offer individual consultations and short
Their services include: workshops, writing groups, writing weeks, an annual
• Individual counseling and coaching writing retreat, the Grant Writing Boot Camp for postdocs,
• An interdisciplinary qualification program and workstations.
• A writing workshop
• Information and networking events In addition, you can benefit from regular information and
• Mentoring programs networking events such as PhD Day, Postdoc Day, Career
• Numerous funding programs Day, company visits or career lunch talks, postdoc talks and
the summer party.
Membership of the Graduate Academy or the Postdoc
Center is a prerequisite for taking advantage of these The various funding programs for doctoral candidates
offers. and postdocs include long-term and short-term
scholarships in addition to grants for mobility and
As a doctoral candidate or postdoc, you can apply free of networking.
charge.
All doctoral candidates at TU Dresden can elect the
The advisory service consists of the following: Doctoral Council, once per year.
• Initial counseling on all questions related to doctoral
studies The Doctoral Council aims to:
• Funding • Strengthen the visibility of doctoral candidates at the
• Writing university,
• Career counseling and CV check, • Create a platform for cross-faculty dialog between
• Conflict counseling and mediation doctoral candidates
• Individual coaching. • Contribute suggestions and proposals for the further
development of GA services.
The qualification program of the GA and the Postdoc
Center is offered every semester and includes With the founding of the Postdoc Center, a Postdoc
interdisciplinary workshops in German and English on the Representative was established as well.
following:
• Leadership and management skills The Postdoc Representative strives to:
• Career planning • Support postdocs in networking across disciplines,
• Science in practice/science management • Represent postdoc interests
• Scientific work • Participate actively in decision-making processes.
• Science communication
Would you like to be kept updated? Then network with the
With the Career Program: Business or the Future Career GA/Postdoc Center via LinkedIn.
Program: Innovation doctoral students and postdocs will
be fully prepared for a career outside of academia or as Angela Böhm
future start-up founders.

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