# Early Career Support and Graduate Center

**Source**: https://www.fau.eu/research/research-careers/early-career-support-and-graduate-center/
**Parent**: https://www.fau.eu/

We are a central service for information on doctoral degrees, postdoctoral research, habilitations, heads of junior research groups, and assistant professorships (equivalent to the [EU research profile categories R1 to R3](https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/career-development/researchers#research-profiles-descriptors)). The Graduate Center coordinates all structured doctoral programs and supports doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and habilitation candidates, as well as supervisors of doctoral degrees and habilitations at FAU.

## Information on Early Career Support

## Moving Knowledge. Encouraging talent.

FAU has adopted **principles for supporting researchers in the early stages of their careers**, which provide guidance for attracting, supporting, and assisting outstanding scientists from around the world in the early stages of their careers, and establish a culture of appreciation, independence, and responsibility.

**[FAU principles for supporting researchers in the early stages of their careers](https://www.fau.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/12/FAU_Broschuere_Nachwuchsprinzipien.pdf)**

## Steering committee and contributors

## Early Career Support: Management and team

Click on the tabs to receive further information about the Early Career Support management and team.

## The academic steering committee

### Chairperson

## Contact

- Email: [andreas.hirsch@fau.de](mailto:andreas.hirsch@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-65581](tel:+4991318565581)

### Faculty representatives

WA

## Contact

- Email: [wolfgang.achtziger@fau.de](mailto:wolfgang.achtziger@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-67146](tel:+4991318567146)

CB

## Contact

- Email: [christoph.bert@fau.de](mailto:christoph.bert@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-44213](tel:+4991318544213)

KG

## Contact

- Email: [knut.graichen@fau.de](mailto:knut.graichen@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-27127](tel:+4991318527127)

## Contact

- Email: [wiso-sekretariat-koschate-fischer@fau.de](mailto:wiso-sekretariat-koschate-fischer@fau.de)

## Contact

- Email: [karl-heinz.leven@fau.de](mailto:karl-heinz.leven@fau.de)

DM

## Contact

- Email: [dominik.m.mueller@fau.de](mailto:dominik.m.mueller@fau.de)

HdW

## Contact

- Email: [heinrich.de.wall@fau.de](mailto:heinrich.de.wall@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-22242](tel:+4991318522242)

### Research staff representatives

NvS

## Contact

- Email: [nicolai.von.schroeders@fau.de](mailto:nicolai.von.schroeders@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 911 5302-95394](tel:+49911530295394)

### Doctoral candidates’ representatives

KS

## Contact

- Email: [kian.schmalenbach@fau.de](mailto:kian.schmalenbach@fau.de)

TS

## Contact

- Email: [timo.schwall@fau.de](mailto:timo.schwall@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-27655](tel:+4991318527655)

### Director of the Graduate Center

## Contact

- Email: [christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de](mailto:christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85 20722](tel:+4991318520722)

## Team

Our motivated team includes members from business and economics, the humanities and social sciences, the sciences and engineering.

**We are always here to help, regardless of which subject you are pursuing an academic career in.**

## Contact

- Email: [christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de](mailto:christian.schmitt-engel@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85 20722](tel:+4991318520722)

## Contact

- Email: [henriette.mueller-ahrndt@fau.de](mailto:henriette.mueller-ahrndt@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-22807](tel:+4991318522807)

## Contact

- Email: [silke.schnurbusch@fau.de](mailto:silke.schnurbusch@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 152 02841446](tel:+4915202841446)

EZ

## Contact

- Email: [elena.zeissler@fau.de](mailto:elena.zeissler@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-20260](tel:+4991318520260)

## Contact

- Email: [kerstin.puls@fau.de](mailto:kerstin.puls@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-20721](tel:+4991318520721)

## Contact

- Email: [christa.schmidt@fau.de](mailto:christa.schmidt@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-20724](tel:+4991318520724)

## Contact

- Email: [julia.drafz@fau.de](mailto:julia.drafz@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-71366](tel:+4991318571366)

### Office of Doctoral Affairs at the Graduate Center

## Contact

- Email: [promotion-zulassung@fau.de](mailto:promotion-zulassung@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-24163](tel:+4991318524163)

## Contact

- Email: [promotion-nat@fau.de](mailto:promotion-nat@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-26003](tel:+4991318526003)

## Contact

- Email: [promotion-med@fau.de](mailto:promotion-med@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-22341](tel:+4991318522341)

## Contact

- Email: [promotion-phil-theol@fau.de](mailto:promotion-phil-theol@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-26402](tel:+4991318526402)

## Contact

- Email: [graduiertenzentrum@fau.de](mailto:graduiertenzentrum@fau.de)
- Phone: [+49 9131 85-20724](tel:091318520724)

### How to find us

**Address:** Freyeslebenstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen

## Dates

- 19

  Mar

  9:00 am – 1:00 pm

  [Grundlagen des Projektmanagements](https://www.fau.eu/events/grundlagen-des-projektmanagements/)

  91058 Erlangen, Freyeslebenstr. 1 | Raum 02.4076 (2. Stock)
- 23

  Mar

  March 23, 2026, 9:30 am – March 24, 2026, 3:30 pm

  [Konfliktmanagement und konstruktive Lösungswege](https://www.fau.eu/events/konfliktmanagement-und-konstruktive-losungswege/)

  Online
- 24

  Mar

  March 23, 2026, 9:30 am – March 24, 2026, 3:30 pm

  [Konfliktmanagement und konstruktive Lösungswege](https://www.fau.eu/events/konfliktmanagement-und-konstruktive-losungswege/)

  Online

[All dates:](https://www.fau.eu/calendars/graduiertenzentrum/)