Joining the GSLS

Membership and what it means

Who needs to become a member?

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

Prerequisites for membership

• 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

• To become a GSLS member, you need to meet at least one of the following funding criteria:

  • You were selected through a competitive appointment procedure for a professorship
     • This includes:
      – A formal appointment procedure for a professorship ("Formales Berufungsverfahren")
      – A selection based on a professorship program call (please include the call text and a short program description, if available)
      – Independent management of your own research funds

  • You have secured ongoing external third-party funding on your own
     • Only funding from external sources counts (internal university funding such as IZKF is not eligible)

  • You are involved in a large grant at the University Hospital (UKW)
     • In this case, we’ll need:
      – Proof of your own financial position at UKW
      – Evidence that you independently applied for a sub-project that is listed in the main grant application

How to apply

• If you want to become a GSLS member please use the Application Form

GSLS Membership, General Issues

• 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

Role of GSLS Members in Supervising Doctoral Researchers

• 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.

Documents 

• See Regulations