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 the support of their individual career development and scientific self-reliance. Furthermore, the programs assists 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 (sponsor: HGF, announcer: Uwe Strähle)
- Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE) (sponsor: HGF, announcer: Stefan Hinz)
- Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP) (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Ulrich Lemmer)
Research Training Groups
- Information Engineering + Management: A Market Engineering Perspective (IME) (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Christof Weinhardt)
- Self-organising Sensor-Actuator-Networks (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Uwe D. Hanebeck)
- Analysis, Simulation and Design of nanotechnological Processes (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Marlis Hochbruck)
- Process chains in manufacturing: Interaction, modelling and evaluation of process zones (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Volker Schulze)
- Elementarteilchenphysik bei höchster Energie und höchster Präzision (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Dieter Zeppenfeld)
- Intelligent Surgery: Entwicklung neuer computerbasierter Methoden für den Arbeitsplatz der Zukunft in der Weichteilchirurgie (sponsor: DFG, announcer: Heinz Wörn)
- Energy Related Catalysis (sponsor: HGF, announcer: Olaf Deutschmann)
- Helmholtz International Research School for Teratronics (sponsor: HGF, announcer: Juerg Leuthold)
- Mechanisms and Interactions of Climate Change in Mountain Regions MICMoR (sponsor: HGF, announcer: Hans Peter Schmidt)
- Energy Scenarios - Construction, Assesment and Impact (sponsor: HGF, announcer: Armin Grunwald)
Other Programmes
- Graduate Program Service Research (announcer: Stefan Nickel, Ralf Reussner, Gerhard Satzger, Rudi Studer, Christof Weinhardt
- Promotionskolleg Gefügestrukturanalyse und Prozessbewertung (announcer: Britta Nestler)
- Promotionskolleg e-drive (KIT und Daimler) (announcer: Ellen Ivers-Tiffée)
- KIC Inno Energy PhD-School (Sprecher: Hans-Jörg Bauer)
