Your Stepping Stone for Your Career
The UTN School of Students and Young Researchers (StaRs) offers you a structured, inspiring, and supportive environment to successfully complete your doctorate. We accompany you on your journey with targeted further training, individual mentoring, and valuable career advice.
The UTN School of Students and Young Researchers (StaRs) serves as the Graduate School of the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN). It provides a structured, inspiring, and supportive environment for pursuing a doctorate at UTN. The School offers targeted training opportunities, individual mentoring, and tailored career support.
StaRs is part of a vibrant research community and promotes interdisciplinary exchange. In addition to an excellent doctoral program, it offers innovative qualification formats, individual supervision, and targeted career development. Networking events provide valuable opportunities to connect with experts from academia and industry.
StaRs combines academic excellence with practice-oriented training and prepares candidates for careers in research, industry, and other professional fields. The doctoral program is continuously developed to ensure optimal conditions for high-quality research.
Application
All information on approval and requirements.
Doctorate
Current doctoral topics.
Research and Support
Discover our interdisciplinary research areas.
Doctoral Research Guide
Discover our structured doctoral program.
Doctoral Researchers
Expandable list of current doctoral researchers and their research topics.
Graduates
Expandable list of UTN graduates.
Steering Committee of the Graduate School
The Graduate School’s steering committee is the central unit at UTN for strategic decision-making on degree programs as well as doctoral/Ph.D. issues and processes. The chair is the Founding Vice President for Education and International Affairs.
Central responsibilities
- Examination-related matters (degree programs)
- Review of applications in doctoral/Ph.D. procedures (case-by-case decision)s
- Fundamental issues relating to education, teaching, and doctoral/Ph.D. issues (including the handling of academic adjustments and the use of AI tools in teaching, etc.)
Members
The steering committee is composed of the following members:
- Prof. Dr. Isa Jahnke (Chair and Founding Vice President for Education and International Affairs)
- Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann (Founding-Chair Department LiAS)
- Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard (Founding-Chair Department CSAI)
- Carl-David Reese (Representative of the students)
- Ulrike Pfefferer (Representative of the academic staff, Dep. LiAS)
- Dr. Birgit Stelzer (Industry representative with a background in education and research).
Contact
Any further questions? Our StaRs team will be happy to help!
Whether it’s about the application process, specific topics or general information – we are here to help.
