Joining the GSLS

Membership and what it means

Membership is necessary to become the primary supervisor of a GSLS doctoral researcher.

Authorization for examination HSchPrüferV, June 2006
Ideally accepted as HabilitandIn or already PD; also possible as an independent group leader with at least one year independent teaching experience at the university
Independent project leader in a coordinated externally evaluated research program, such as a DFG-Graduiertenkolleg or DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich

Membership regulated by ordinance of the Graduate Schools
Duration 4 years, prolongation upon written request
Premature membership termination: submission of resignation letter, exclusion for important reasons, leaving the University of Würzburg (current supervisory functions may continue)
Members listed as GSLS faculty on GSLS homepage
Members are asked to post vacant PhD positions on the GSLS homepage
Members elect section speakers and vote for board candidates (to be appointed by the University President)
Yearly General Assembly; additional assemblies may take place
Members can initiate lectures, workshops, summer schools etc. in their sections. Both financial and organizational support by the GSLS can be applied for
Members can nominate candidates for Career Development Fellowships

Enrollment of doctoral researchers in GSLS does not automatically follow from member status of supervisor. Members and candidates have to get active.
The primary supervisor provides:
- access to collaborative research structure (such as Graduiertenkolleg or SFB)
- weekly lab meeting and literature seminar
The primary supervisor is responsible for assembling a three-person thesis committee in cooperation with the doctoral researcher: two supervisors must be GSLS members. One may be an external / international supervisor. If the primary supervisor is a member of the medical faculty, one supervisor has to be from a natural science faculty or be nominated from such a faculty.
Regular documented meetings between doctoral researcher and all members of the thesis committee are required (start-up meeting after 3 months, annual meetings after the first and consecutive years).
An individual research training plan has to be worked out and further developed in those meetings. This needs to be documented in respective progress reports.