Doctoral and microscopy seminars of the GDCh Division of the Chemistry of Construction Materials

The 2024 PhD Seminar of the GDCh Division of the Chemistry of Construction Materials will take place in Aachen from August 26-28, 2024. Details on the venue, topic, registration documents and costs can be found in this flyer.

Please send all your questions and the completed registration form to prosem2024@ibac.rwth.aachen.de.

Registration deadline: 1 May 2024

Organisation & implementation
Nils Münstermann, Prof. Dr. Oliver Weichold
RWTH Aachen University University

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The doctoral seminar in chemistry of construction materials 2023 took place on the grounds of the European Youth Education and Meeting Center in Weimar. Nine doctoral students took this opportunity to exchange ideas scientifically and present their doctoral topics. In addition to the scientific exchange, there was a barbecue evening, an afternoon walk to famous Bauhaus locations, a visit to the “Schmale Tuch” (a Weimar institution that has been tapping beer for thirsty people - including many students) for more than 100 years The program includes a tour of the laboratories of the Chair of chemistry of construction materials and Polymer Materials, which are equipped with the latest testing and analysis technology.

Organization & implementation
Dr.-Ing. Stephan Partschefeld, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Osburg
Bauhaus University Weimar

Photo: S. Partschefeld

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program

After the successful events from 2007 to 2011 in Weimar, the Division of the Chemistry of Construction Materials was able to take part this year from 11th to 13th. May at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences – Technology and Economics will once again offer a seminar for doctoral students. In addition to the visit to the Sika headquarters in Stuttgart and the tour of the Stuttgart 21 construction site, the focus of the 2.5-day meeting was the seminar with specialist lectures on the participants' current research topics. After the lectures, there was time for intensive exchange between the participants and with the supervising professors. In the final workshop, in addition to the first steps after the doctorate, career planning and application, the current area of ​​tension between scientific work and taking on teaching tasks during the doctorate was discussed and with Dr. Saskia Oehmichen, a representative of the “NextStep” platform of Deutsche chemistry of construction materials , was openly discussed.

Organization & implementation
Prof. Dr. Karsten Schubert (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)
Prof. Dr. Friedlinde Götz-Neunhoeffer (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg & Chair of the Division of the Chemistry of Construction Materials).