In accordance with Article 4.5 of its Main Statutes, the DSSE has constituted a Doctoral Candidate Council.

The Doctoral Candidate Council consists of the Doctoral Candidate Programme Representatives from all programmes. The term for Doctoral Candidate Representatives is one year, re-election is possible.

Chair of the Doctoral Candidate Council : Tara TRAUTHWEIN / Deputy Chair of the Doctoral Candidate Council : Chintankumar VIPULBHAI JANSARI

Secretary of the Doctoral Candidate Council: Besma BOUSSOUFA

Main tasks of the Doctoral Candidate Council:

• Represent the doctoral candidates in the DSSE
• Elect the Doctoral Candidate Representative(s) in the Members’ Council for a term of one year.
• Advise the Members' Council (e.g. via the Doctoral Candidate Representative(s))
• The Doctoral Candidate Programme Representatives will advise the Programme Committees in their respective discipline

Tasks of the Doctoral Candidate Representative(s) in the Members’ Council:

• Represent the doctoral candidates
• Advise the members council

Doctoral Candidates Council Statutes:

The current members are:

Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Applications

Doctoral Programme in Physics and Materials Science

Doctoral programme in Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Doctoral programme in Computational Sciences

Doctoral Programme in Systems and Molecular Biomedicine

Doctoral programme in Engineering Sciences