About the Research Academy  

Content

• Structure of the Research Academy
• Documents
• Directorate of the Research Academy
• Structured Doctoral Qualification Programmes
• Faculty Advisory Board of the Research Academy
• Academic Advisory Board of the Research Academy

Research Academy Leipzig

International  Postgraduate Qualification

The Universität Leipzig is combining all structured doctoral training programmes in its faculty spanning Research Academy Leipzig established in 2006.

The Research Academy’s main concern is providing an outstanding environment for allowing sound scholarly and research-oriented qualification for young researchers. A three-part structure of the Academy‟s qualification offers has become established:

In addition to the specialised qualification through the PhD programmes, an interdisciplinary qualification programme „Transferable Skills‟ is offered. The third pillar is conferences, summer schools and liaising meetings that amongst others promote the exchange with structured doctoral programmes of other universities.

That means that the Research Academy not only provides the optimum interdisciplinary infrastructure. It also treads a path which goes beyond the conventional models of structured doctoral training in forming learning communities as an “experiment in joint understanding” in an intergenerational exchange between renowned leading researchers and highly motivated and qualified postgraduate students. In other words, in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Studies, the Research Academy is reviving the classical idea of the Academy.

Furthermore, core assignments are the recruiting of young researchers, providing extensive counselling for foreign PhD candidates, financial support and guaranteeing and innovatively developing equal opportunities measures.
Leipzig was one of the first universities in Germany that established such an umbrella organisation for doctoral qualifications. But, even beyond its location, the Research Academy Leipzig has committed itself to structured doctoral training as a founding member of the “German University Association of Advanced Graduate Training (GUAT)‟ and even hosted its opening conference in February of 2010.

The Research Academy Leipzig is structured into three Graduate Centres with a total of 19 postgraduate degree programmes:

Graduate Centre Mathematics / Computer Science and Natural Sciences
Graduate Centre Life Sciences
Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Sciences

Documents

Statutes of the Research Academy Leipzig (as of 14 December 2009, in German only)

Conceptual Frame of the Research Academy Leipzig(in German only)

Programme for Equal Opportunities of the Research Academy Leipzig(in German only)

Annual Report of the Research Academy (2010)(in German only)

Directorate of the Research Academy

Director:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schwarz, Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics

Board of Directors:
Prof. Dr. Roger Gläser (Graduate Centre Mathematics / Computer Science and Natural Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Martin Schlegel (Graduate Centre Life Science)
Prof. Dr. Matthias Middell (Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Sciences)

Structured Doctoral Qualification Programmes

Currently, the Research Academy consists of the following classes:

Graduate Centre Mathematics / Computer Science and Natural Sciences
Graduate School "Building with Molecules and Nano-objects (BuildMoNa)"
International Postgraduate Programme "Interdisciplinary Research at the Frontiers of Chemistry"
International Max Planck Research School "Mathematics in the Sciences"
International Research Training Group "Diffusion in Porous Materials"
German-French Graduate College "Statistical Physics of Complex Systems"
Integrated Research Training Group "Polymers – Random Coils and beyond"

Graduate Centre Life Sciences
International Postgraduate Programme "From Signal Processing to Behaviour"
International Max Planck Research School "Human Origin"
International Max Planck Research School "Neuroscience of Communication: Function, Structure and Plasticity (NeuroCom)"
Research Training Group "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cellular Neuroscience (InterNeuro)"
Research Training Group "Function of Attention in Cognition"
Integrated Research Training Group "Protein Science"
Integrated Research Training Group "Matrix Engineering"
MD/PhD-Programme of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology

Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Sciences
International Postgraduate Programme "Transnationalisation and Regionalisation from the 18th Century to the Present"
Research Training Group "Critical Junctures of Globalisation"
Research Training Group "Religious Nonconformism and Cultural Dynamics"
Postgraduate Programme "Cultural Exchange: Classical Studies‘, Historical and Ethnological Perspectives"
Postgraduate Programme "German as a Foreign Language/Transcultural German Studies"
Central-German Doctoral Program Economics
The New Europe
Eastcentral Europe in Transnational Perspective
Secularisations: Configurations and Developmental Paths

Faculty Advisory Board of the Research Academy Leipzig

The Faculty Advisory Board advises the Research Academy on new academic developments in the faculties. The board consists of one representative from each faculty of the Universität Leipzig and the equal opportunity representative.

Members

Speaker of the Board: Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur

•    Faculty of Theology: Prof. Dr. Angelika Berlejung
•    Faculty of Law: Prof. Dr. Markus Kotzur
•    Faculty of History, Art and Oriental Studies: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Höpken
•    Faculty of Philology: Prof. Dr. Doris Schönefeld
•    Faculty of Education: Prof. Dr. Barbara Drinck
•    Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Prof. Dr. Hannes Siegrist
•    Faculty of Economics and Management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Steger
•    Faculty of Sport Sciences: Prof. Dr. Maren Witt
•    Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science: Prof. Dr. Hans B. Rademacher
•    Faculty of Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology: Prof. Dr. Matthias Müller
•    Faculty of Physics and Earth Science: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Kremer
•    Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider
•    Faculty of Veterinary Medicine: Prof. Dr. Gotthold Gäbel
•    Faculty of Medicine: Prof. Dr. Andreas Reichenbach
•    Equal Opportunity Representative: Georg Teichert

Academic Advisory Board of the Research Academy Leipzig

The Academic Advisory Board evaluates the academic activities of the Research Academy. It receives the annual report of the directorate and makes recommendations on future developments of the Research Academy

Members

•    Prof. Dr. Manfred Salmhofer (University of Heidelberg)
•    Prof. Dr. Axel Mecklinger (University of Saarbrücken)
•    Prof. Dr. Michael Geyer (University of Chicago)