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PhD students at HZB: Friends for Life

By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2018-11-05
In: Careers, International, Students
Tagged: student
Daniel Meza, one of eight representatives of the PhD-students at HZB. He works on WCRC, Adlershof, EE-IS, 12.7,214. Topic: TCOs für silicon heterojunction solar cells.

At HZB about 150 young scientists are working on their doctoral dissertation. 81 come from abroad to Berlin to do their PhD in the HZB labs in Wannsee or Adlershof. The PhD students at HZB have organized themselves: twice a month, they invite to an informal get-together, they plan workshops and an annual PhD retreat in a country hotel in Brandenburg. This is actively supported by the management. I recently asked Daniel Meza, one of eight current doctoral student representatives about their activities.

Daniel, why do you work as a representative in the PhD students organization ?

Daniel: Maybe it’s a bit romantic, but for me the doctorate is also a time when you can make friends for life. And that’s when you need to get involved. Together we can achieve more, I think.

What are you doing concretely?

Daniel: We invite to a regulars’ table twice a month, where we discuss problems and help or support each other. We also ask what kind of additional training doctoral students would like to receive; for example we are currently organizing new programming courses. Particularly nice is the PhD retreat: we spend three or four days in the country every summer. This is not organized by the representatives, but by five other committed doctoral students who have always done a great job in recent years.

How many doctoral students participate in the PhD retreat?

Daniel: About half of them. That’s very good, because some of them have measurement time or simply can’t take time off on these days. At the retreat, workshops are offered on topics that are of particular interest to people. For example, how to write good publications or present your work better, but also about career opportunities outside science. We also discuss other issues and elect the new representatives.

Why did the PhD students elect eight representatives?

Daniel: HZB is big, there are two locations and different buildings and laboratories at each location. That’s why it’s great that we now have eight contact persons, so there’s always one person nearby.

And here are the seven other representatives: If you are a PhD-student at HZB: get in touch soon.

Marlene Härtel, NPET (HZB)/ TFD (TUB) Adlershof, 12.8, 0219 Topic: Transparent conductive oxides for Si/Perovskite tandem solar cells by sputter deposition.
Raphael Präg, EE-NOC Office: Wannsee C217 Topic: Prediction and verification of band structure, optical and electronic structural properties.
Aleksandra Nikolaeva, EE-ANSMA, Wannsee: M106, 43756 Topic: Structure-property relations in CIGSe solar cells by scanning electron and scanning probe microscopy
Nina Novakovic, EM-AMGS Office: Adlershof, 14.51, 6417 Topic: Optical switching in magnetic multilayers and complex materials.nearby.
Vladimir Voroshnin, EM-AMGS, Adlershof, 13.10-0402 Topic: Surface and electronic bands investigations of correlated materials
Jakob Bombsch, EE-AID, Wannsee: E208; Adlershof, 14.54, 0213 Topic: Surface and Interface analysis of chalcopyrite solar cell structures.
Felix Kramer, FG-IA, Adlershof, 13.7, 2.12  Topic: Multi-beam storage and transverse island buckets in electron storage rings

 

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