The convent is headed by the executive committee, which is elected each year at a convent meeting in accordance with the currently valid rules of procedure. Any convent member, i.e. all accepted doctoral candidates from all faculties, can stand for election. The call for candidates is usually made a few weeks before the planned election meeting.
The elected Executive Board in turn elects a chairperson from among its members to take charge of the administrative management of the convent and a Senate representative to represent the convent as a permanent guest at Senate meetings. The remaining members of the Executive Board are automatically authorised to act as deputies for both offices. Since October 2019, the two elected Senate members of the doctoral students’ status group have also been members of the Executive Board by virtue of their office.
The Executive Board currently consists of the following members:
- Amatus Beyer, Chairperson of the Board
- Maurice Artelt
- Matthias Weiß
- Maximilian Posner
- Clemens Sonnleitner
- Felicitas Leese
You can reach us all per mail at vorstand@dokus.uni-stuttgart.de.
Our Tasks
The most important goal of DoKUS is to ensure that doctoral students at the University of Stuttgart find optimal conditions for successfully completing their doctorates. The most important tasks of the executive committee therefore include gathering information, preparing meetings, and responding to enquiries from doctoral students, the university, and other people in connection with doctoral studies or doctoral student representation.
In concrete terms, this means, for example, that:
- We collect and compile information about doctoral studies and doctoral student representation for you.
- We actively participate in changes to doctoral regulations and advocate for improvements for doctoral students. For example, we have achieved that, under the (still) current doctoral regulations, enrolment as a doctoral student is possible until the end of the doctoral programme. The Executive Board has submitted its own proposal for the catalogue of qualification measures that doctoral candidates will have to complete in future, and also has the right to comment on the catalogues of the individual doctoral committees.
- We are in regular contact with GRADUS to discuss, for example, the expansion and improvement of the range of qualification measures on offer or other current topics.
- We advise the Senate, Senate committees, faculty councils and other groups at the university on matters concerning doctoral students. We are also in close contact with representatives of the student body and the academic service, as we have overlapping interests with one or both status groups on many issues.
- We support and advise doctoral students and those who would like to become doctoral students.
- We want to promote networking and exchange between doctoral candidates across faculty boundaries, for example by setting up regular meetings outside of the sessions, to which all doctoral candidates are cordially invited.