PhD student representation
What is the PhD student representation?
The PhD student representation represent the interests of the doctoral students at RPTU towards the university's bodies and committees and advise in matters concerning doctoral students.
The site is currently under construction. Further information will follow shortly.
In Kaiserslautern, the doctoral student representatives were elected for the first time in May and June 2022. One doctoral student representative and one deputy were elected for each department. From the beginning of 2023, the doctoral student representatives were provisionally completed by four doctoral student representatives from Landau and their deputies, who took over their tasks provisionally until the first joint elections.
Election results for PhD student representation 2024
In June and July 2024, the elections for the new PhD student representatives of the RPTU took place in all departments of the RPTU (legislative period: 01.10.2024-30.09.2025). Elections were held in the individual departments as part of plenary meetings of doctoral candidates. Each department elected a member of the PhD student representatives and a deputy. The legislative period of the newly elected PhDstudent representatives began on 01.10.2024.
At its constituent meeting on 21.10.2024, the PhD student representatives elected Chiara Fend as spokesperson for Kaiserslautern and Sabrina Ecker as spokesperson for Landau. Their deputies are Jonas Kollmen for Kaiserslautern and Larissa Herrmann for Landau.
The following representatives were elected in the individual departments:
| Department | Name of the elected PhD student representative | Name of the elected deputy |
| Architecture | Ralf Breitenstein | Fynn-Niklas Knak |
| Civil Engineering | Jonas Lillig | Sara Wendel |
| Biology | Saskia Zeilfelder | Unoccupied |
| Chemistry | Sebastian Simon | Nesrin Dilmen |
| Electrical Engineering and information technology | Alex Wezel | Christoph Lipps |
| Educational studies | Verena Bauer | Julia Friedrich |
| Information technology | Gregor Cassian Alexandru | Jan Rottmayer |
| Cultural and social sciences | Daniela Zahneisen | Sofia Fletschinger |
| Mechanical and process engineering | Jonathan Nußbaum | Jonas Kollmen |
| Mathematics | Chiara Fend | Alex Keilmann |
| Natural and environmantal sciences | Larissa Zoe Herrmann | Unoccupied |
| Physics | Viviane Bauer | Julius Bohm |
| Psychology | Sabrina Ecker | Pascal Merz |
| Spatial and environmental planning | Felix Jacob | Sibylle Hestermann |
| Social sciences | Sophie Lacher | Christian Scherner |
| Business studies and Economics | Julian Preiß | Hendrik Wewers |
Contact: promovierendenvertretung[at]rptu.de
Electoral regulations of the PhD student representation of the RPTU (in German).
Promotion of young scientists at the RPTU through the TU-Nachwuchsring
The TU-Nachwuchsring is RPTU's interdisciplinary institution for the support of early career researchers and offers its early career researchers comprehensive support for the development of their careers.
Persons delegated to committees by the doctoral student representatives.
| Committee | Delegates | Deputies |
| Senate | Pascal Merz (LD), Alex Keilmann (KL) | Sofia Fletschinger (LD), Sibylle Hestermann (KL) |
| Senate Committee “Digital Infrastructures and Services” | Steven Simon, Anna-Lena Gerard | |
| Commission pools for the case-related formation of investigation commissions Good scientific practice | Julia Friedrich, Alex Keilmann | |
| Steering Committee HRS4R | Jonathan Nußbaum, Veronika Barkela | |
| Steering Committee Research Data Management | Eva Sophie Walther, Eric Bollinger | Markus Ühlein, Simone Kilian Salas |
Information on the “Ombudsgremium Promotion” can be found here. (in German)