The doctoral program “Natural Sciences” is jointly supported and designed by three FU departments: Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Department of Physics, and Department of Earth Sciences. The goal of the structured program is to train talented doctoral students to become excellent natural scientists. Besides interdisciplinary scientific studies, this is also promoted by accompanying supervision.
In addition to the scientific competences, the doctoral students are given the opportunity to develop interdisciplinary competences, especially in the areas of knowledge transfer, scientific integrity and science and research management. Furthermore, they are trained in science-relevant foreign languages and gender and diversity aspects. The program prepares doctoral students to take on junior positions in universities, research institutions and in public or private institutions for which a special scientific qualification is required.

Program website:

https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/naturalsciences/index.html

Further information:

Rules and regulation of Graduate Program Natural Sciences:https://www.fu-berlin.de/service/zuvdocs/amtsblatt/2021/ab082021.pdf (Amtsblatt der Freien Universität Berlin, 08/2021 vom 14. Mai 2021)

Contact:

Coordination Natural Sciences:

Dr. Alette Winter (Dept. Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy)

NN (Dept. Physics)

NN (Dept. Earth Sciences)

Email: office(at)dpns.fu-berlin.de

Spokespersons:

Prof. Dr. Beate Paulus (Dept. Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy)
Prof. Dr. Roland Netz (Dept. Physics)

Sub-programs of Natural Sciences:

Integrated Research Training Group of CRC / SFB 1449 "Dynamic Hydrogels at Biointerfaces"

International Research Training Group "Charging into the Future: Understanding the interaction of polyelectrolytes with biosystems" (GRK 2662; started October 2021)

Integrated Research Training Group of CRC / SFB 1078 "Protonation Dynamics in Protein Function"

Integrated Research Training Group of TRR CRC / SFB 227 "Ultrafast Spin Dynamics"

Integrated Research Training Group of CRC / SFB 1349 "SFB 1349 "Fluorine-Specific Interactions"