PhD student representation

The "DokTeam"

The AWI PhD students are represented by a yearly elected team, the so called "DokTeam". Since summer 2009 it consists of 6 PhD students who share the different fields of responsibility which are:

1. Political representation
2. Student welfare
3. Communication and Events 
4. Mentoring
5. International students
6. Homepage & IT

The current DokTeam members are...

In Bremerhaven:

• Nike Fuchs (Political, Communication & POLMAR representative)
• Edith Korger (IT, Organisation)
• Krissy Reeve (International, Mentoring & Student welfare)
• Vibe Schourup-Kristensen (International, Mentoring & Student welfare)
• Claudia Wekerle (IT, Organisation)
• Christian Wolf (Organisation, PhD-Days 2012)

In Potsdam:

• Béatrice Barbier
• Lukas Schmidt

In Helgoland:

• Thomas Lesniowski
• René Erler

In Sylt:

• Nina Wittenberg

Scientific PhD representatives

Furthermore the AWI PhD students are represented by two fully employed AWI scientists which are elected by the PhD students every two years. The current scientific representatives are:

Sabine Kasten

Hartmut Hellmer

For any general requests or questions concerning our work and for feedback please use our DokTeam mailing list.

If you should have specific questions to one of our members, please follow the links provided in the 'The "Doc Team"' section.

Internals might also have a look at our Intranet page, where you can find additional information and services for PHDs provided by our team.