Organisation

Welcome to the Cologne Graduate School Chemistry!

The Graduate School is open to all doctoral candidates, who belong to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The CGSC was formally founded in February 2017 by decision of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. It is part of the Executive Committee of the Graduate schools within the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and cooperates with the Albertus Magnus Centre.

The CGSC is organized by the following bodies:

Steering committee
Spokesperson
Coordinator
Plenary meeting
Doctoral Assembly

Steering Committee and Spokesperson

The CGSC is led by a Steering Committee consisting of three professors, who should represent the range of all (bio)chemical disciplines, and one doctoral candidate member, who is also member of the Doctoral Assembly.  The professorial members of the Steering Committee are elected for two years, the doctoral candidate for one year. Re-election is possible. 

The Steering Committee is responsible for

•    the development of the scientific program and the qualification concept, as well as quality control
•    the changes to the statutes of the CGSC
•    collaborations with other institutions within the University of Cologne and beyond
•    gender issues
•    public relations
•    decisions on memberships.

The Steering Committee elects one of the members as spokesperson. The spokesperson heads the CGSC Steering Committee.

Coordinator

The coordinator is a non-voting member.

Current members of the CGSC Steering Committee

The Departmental Steering Board (May 22, 2025) and the Doctoral Assembly (June 2, 2025) elected the following members of the steering committee:

Prof. Riemer (spokesperson)

Prof. Meerholz (deputy spokesperson)
Prof. Dumele (deputy member: Prof. Mathur)
Dr. Motori

Laura Plein

Julian Strippel

Plenary meeting

All members of the graduate school (including all professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, appointed supervisors, doctoral candidates) are invited to the plenary meeting by the coordinator. The plenary meeting will take place once per year together with the PhD symposium.

Doctoral Council

All doctoral candidate members of the CGSC jointly constitute the CGSC Doctoral Assembly, which meets at least annually.