Please register academic staff who are interested in a doctorate at the FH Potsdam at the contact address below. In order to inform you about our offers, we need the surname, first name and e-mail address of the interested person, your contact details as a supervisor and the corresponding department.

For the registration of an already registered doctorate at a university, we require the following information from the doctoral candidate:

• first name
• surname
• e-mail address
• date of birth
• gender
• supervisor at the FH Potsdam
• department
• if employment contract at the FH Potsdam (period)
• co-operating university
• supervisor at the cooperating university
• department
• topic of the thesis

Please report a successfully completed doctorate with the following information to the contact address below.

• surnames
• first names
• gender
• date of birth
• e-mail address
• date of the defence
• title of the thesis
• supervisor at the FH Potsdam
• faculty
• co-operating university
• supervisor at the cooperating university
• faculty

Orientation questions for an initial interview with prospective doctoral candidates:

• Research question, synopsis with timetable (by when?)
• Has the funding for this period been clarified?
• Doing a doctorate with an employment contract or externally? How is the connection secured?
• Is the candidate already enrolled at a university?
• Clarification of mutual expectations (e.g. how often do they wish to meet? What feedback periods should be given for questions?) -> In most cases, this is regulated by a supervision agreement between the universities, which you as the second supervisor should also sign.
• Means of communication? E-Mail, telephone, video conferencing, other?
• Networking opportunities for doctoral candidates and doctoral candidates at the department and at the UAS Potsdam
• Ideas for possible conferences
• Schedule the next meeting
• Reference to newsletter for early career researchers at the FH Potsdam

In addition to your regular meetings, you should conduct an appraisal interview at least once a year.