The KIT PhD programs offer the opportunity to acquire a doctor's degree within a research program and a structured qualification concept. The PhD programs focus on the training of PhD students in seminal research topics and on the support of their individual career development and scientific self-reliance. Furthermore, the programs assist early networking, internationalization and interdisciplinary cooperation of postgraduates.
KIT offers young scientists a variety of PhD programs: Graduate schools, Research training groups and PhD proups in several disciplines.
Graduate Schools
- BioInterfaces International Graduate School (funding: HGF, spokesperson: Uwe Strähle)
- Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE) (funding: HGF, spokesperson: Stefan Hinz)
- Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP) (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Ulrich Lemmer)
- Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology (KSETA) (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Johannes Blümer)
Research Training Groups
- Information Engineering + Management: A Market Engineering Perspective (IME) (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Christof Weinhardt)
- Self-organising Sensor-Actuator-Networks (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Uwe D. Hanebeck)
- Analysis, Simulation and Design of nanotechnological Processes (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Marlis Hochbruck)
- Process chains in manufacturing: Interaction, modelling and evaluation of process zones (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Volker Schulze)
- Intelligent Surgery: Entwicklung neuer computerbasierter Methoden für den Arbeitsplatz der Zukunft in der Weichteilchirurgie (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Heinz Wörn)
- Energy Related Catalysis (funding: HGF, spokesperson: Olaf Deutschmann)
- Helmholtz International Research School for Teratronics (funding: HGF, spokesperson: Christian Koos)
- Mechanisms and Interactions of Climate Change in Mountain Regions MICMoR (funding: HGF, spokesperson: Hans Peter Schmidt)
- Energy Scenarios - Construction, Assesment and Impact (funding: HGF, spokesperson: Armin Grunwald)
- Elementary particle physics at highest energy and precision (funding: DFG, spokesperson: Dieter Zeppenfeld)
- IMD - Helmholtz Research School on "Integrated Materials Development for Novel High-temperature Alloys"
(funding: HGF, spokesperson: Martin Heilmaier, Oliver Kraft)
Other Programmes
- Graduate Program Service Research (spokespersons: Stefan Nickel, Ralf Reussner, Gerhard Satzger, Rudi Studer, Christof Weinhardt)
- Promotionskolleg Gefügestrukturanalyse und Prozessbewertung (spokesperson: Britta Nestler)
- Promotionskolleg e-drive (KIT und Daimler) (spokesperson: Ellen Ivers-Tiffée)
- KIC Inno Energy PhD-School (spokesperson: Hans-Jörg Bauer)
