Young researchers and PhD students
Postdocs and Assistant Professors
Junior Researchers' Organisation
For postdocs and assistant professors in fixed term positions, the Junior Researcher Association addresses the issues concerning the temporary academic staff at Aarhus University.
Go to their webpage to read more about their offers:
Career councelling and mentor scheme
Located at campus the "AU Career PhD and JR" focus on increasing your knowledge and awareness of your employability and of all your career options, and to encourage you to engage in your professional development and be a career wise researcher during your research years at Aarhus University.
Read more about their offers:
- AU Career services (individual councelling and tools for career planning)
- Mentor scheme (transition from university to a career outside of academia)
- Career at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (scientific career paths and career planning)
Funding
For PhD Students
Teaching, salaried work and teaching exemption
Teaching
Your supervisor and head of the section must agree to all your teaching activities before you start teaching. Teaching activities will be coordinated by PhD-programme secretary Benita Hyldgaard in May and November for the following semester.
PhD-students enrolled as Master´s students (4+4 programme): Please be aware that you are not allowed to transfer any working hours from part A to part B. If you want to reduce the amount of working hours in your part A you need to send an application to GSNS as stated in your admission letter.
Salaried work
Your supervisor, the head of your research section and the Chairman of PhD-programme committee: Ass. Prof. K. Thomas Jensen must approve the amount of hours to all types of salaried work before the activity is initiated – send information to PhdProgram@bio.au.dk
Gonzales
Your teaching activities and salaried work will be registered in a system called Gonzales. Here you can find an overview of your portfolio. Teaching hours will be registered before teaching starts (i.e. in August and January). Salaried work is registered when the work has been done – send information to PhdProgram@bio.au.dk (remember to get approval of the amount of hours for salaried work before the work is initiated).
Please use your AUID + password to log in: https://services.brics.dk/java/gonzales/#/portfolio
Send information to PhD-Programme at Biology
PhD courses
ECTS credits for courses taken outside Aarhus University has to be approved before certificates are uploaded on the PhD-planner: Course certificates should be sent to PhdProgram@bio.au.dk
ECTS credits can be given for PhD activities other than regular courses (conferences, workshops, seminars, journal club etc.) (max. 10 ECTS in total). The activities must be approved (preferably in advance) by the main supervisor and the programme chair at Biology – send information, including specified learning objectives and ECTS credits, to PhdProgram@bio.au.dk .
Send information to PhD-Programme at Biology:
Graduate School of Natural Sciences
PhD planner system
The online PhD planner system serves as a tool for registering all elements related to your PhD studies. In particular, the online PhD planner is where the PhD plan and the mandatory half year evaluations of the PhD plan are uploaded.
GSNS Rules and regulations
As a PhD student at Natural Sciences there is a number of rules and regulations that you should familiarize yourself with: GSNS Rules and regulations.
PhD partner at GSNS for Biology
Our PhD partner at GSNS is Kathrine Nielsen
Kathrine is sitting in office 1540-016 Thursday afternoons in even week numbers
- Application for teaching exemption (must be submitted through your supervisor)
- Going abroad
- Practicalities regarding PhD defense and qualification exam
- Admission letters and other letters from GSNS
- Application for extension (must be approved by supervisor) (PhD partner will forward to K. Thomas Jensen)
- PhD planer system
Other employees at GSNS
- Parental and sick leave (your PhD partner can tell you who to contact)
- GSNS PhD courses (your PhD partner can tell you who to contact)
Chairman of PhD-programme committee at Biology
The chairman of the PhD-programme committee at Biology is Ass. Prof. K. Thomas Jensen
- Approval of PhD courses outside AU and other PhD activities yielding ECTS credits
- Approval of salaried work (type of work and amount of teaching hours), incl. teaching in Master’s courses
- Applications regarding extensions
- Practical issues in relation to PhD-study
Career councelling and mentor scheme
Located at campus the "AU Career PhD and JR" focus on increasing your knowledge and awareness of your employability and of all your career options, and to encourage you to engage in your professional development and be a career wise researcher during your research years at Aarhus University.
Read more about their offers:
