PhD Supervision

Supervising a PhD project is an interesting and challenging task. Accepting a PhD candidate commits me to a lot of very time consuming things: reading proposals and draft papers, discussing ideas, giving hints and advices, helping with scientific and organizational problems, organizing the PhD exam process, reading the thesis and writing an extensive report, attending the oral defense of the candidate’s thesis etc. However: I don’t have this time. I have a huge teaching duty and I am the coordinator of a master programme. This absorbs 100% of my working time.

The same holds true for requests whether I could supervise a research project or whether a graduate student could work at my chair or in my research group. Beside the fact that I neither have a „chair“ (full professorship)  nor a research group, I also do not have time for further projects. Therefore I kindly ask to abstain from requests whether I could supervise this or that project. The answer is simply: no, I am sorry.