What’s it like to be a doctoral student?
Digital event for Master students
2025/03/31
Are you curious how it is to be a researcher? Are you considering doing a doctoral degree? Meet researchers who have taken this path as they share what motivated them to pursue a doctoral degree and how research has shaped their careers. On April the 8th you can meet with researchers from the Unite! universities who will tell you about their doctoral studies, what made them decide to pursue a PhD, what it is like to be a researcher and what opportunities might open up for you after your doctoral studies.
The event offers:
- Exchange with renowned Unite! researchers from various research areas
- Personal reports on the doctoral experience
- Subject-specific insights into the doctorate
- Tips on applying for and financing a doctorate
Date: 8 April 2025, 11:00–13:00 (in English)
Joint Unite! programme 11.00–11.50 (Zoom)
11.00–11.20 Professor Ignasi Casanova, UPC: Reasons for a Unite! doctorate.
11.20-11.50 Zoom breakout rooms by research area: short introduction by hosts and subsequent Q&A
- Artificial intelligence
- Cyber security
- Energy
- Technical biology
- Entrepreneurship
- Industry 4.0
- Space
- Sustainable cities and water
- General questions about Unite! Doctorate (specific questions about local requirements will be answered in the next part after the break) – Administrative and service staff of various schools
Doctoral Degree at TU Darmstadt
12:00-13:00 Zoom room for TU Darmstadt students (link in Metacampus)
- Presentation ‘Doing a Doctorate at TU Darmstadt’ – Short presentation by Ingenium about German doctoral culture and organisational and legal issues related to doctoral studies
- Information on doctoral studies in graduate schools from the management of the E+E graduate school and a doctoral candidate from the ELIZA graduate school
With the presentation ‘Doctoral Studies at TU Darmstadt’, the graduate organisation Ingenium and the two graduate schools E+E and ELIZA provide very specific information about the individual steps towards a doctorate at TU Darmstadt.
In addition to content-related impulses, there will be sufficient time for questions.
