Excellence in science - all under one roof

The Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences and Molecular Biosciences can count its excellence in many ways, starting with over 350 PhD students and 180 faculty members, including a Nobel Prize laureate and several Leibniz prize awardees. The graduate school is based on the cooperation between six faculties of the University of Göttingen, three Max Planck Institutes, and the German Primate Center. In total, 12 different PhD programs are united under the roof of the GGNB. The individual PhD students of the GGNB work in a wide array of academic disciplines, ranging from the structure and function of particular biomolecules to molecular physiology of the brain and the physics of biological systems. In addition to their scientific research, the PhD students can choose from a diverse range of courses including method courses and the training in professional skills such as scientific presentations, project and team management or career planning. The young scientists are individually supervised by a “thesis committee” comprising three members of faculty who advise and support the students throughout the course of their doctoral studies.