Contact
You are welcome to write directly to the elected members for your faculty. Otherwise, please contact the chair of the Spokesperson's Council or the general address:
The doctoral student representatives represent all the faculties at Leibniz University Hannover and the Leibniz Research Schools which have been granted the right to confer doctorates. The representatives facilitate interdisciplinary and inter-faculty exchange on matters relating to doctoral studies. They thus contribute to further promoting a transdisciplinary, cooperative and international doctoral culture at Leibniz University Hannover.
Structure
The doctoral student representatives send one representative to the Senate and one representative to the Executive Board of the Graduate Academy. The Spokesperson's Council represents the doctoral student representatives externally.
| Senate | Graduate Academy | Spokesperson's Council | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Representative | Michael Wulf | Soschia Karimi | |
| Deputy | Maximilian Lückemann | Lena Schade |
Elected representatives in the faculties
| Faculty | Representative | Deputy |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty of Natural Sciences | Carolin Höner | Malte Schweizer |
| Faculty of Mathematics and Physics | Yash Bhatia | - |
| Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Niklas Rother | - |
| Faculty of Mechanical Engineering | Michael Wulf | - |
| Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science | - | - |
| Faculty of Humanities | Leonie Telgmann | Annika Schwark Stefan Dierkes |
| Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences | Riccarda Cappeller | Kathleen Dahmen |
| Faculty of Law | Katharina Lakisa | Jasmin Wulf Lena Schade David Erhardt |
| Faculty of Economics and Management | Soschia Karimi | Maximilian Lückemann |
| QUEST Leibniz Research School | Berd Meyer-Hoppe | - |
Elections
The doctoral student representatives are elected every two years in January. The representatives' term of office begins on 1 April of the year in which the elections took place.
Regulations
The regulations for doctoral student representation (in German)form the basis of the doctoral student representatives' work. They are supplemented by the rules of procedure (in German) which the doctoral student representatives adopted on 29 June 2017.
Miscellaneous
Together with the doctoral student representatives at eight other universities in Lower Saxony, the doctoral student representatives at Leibniz University Hannover have written an open letter on the amendment of the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act (NHG). In the open letter, the doctoral student representatives call for the strengthening of the right to participation in higher education policy.
