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Dean

• Prof. Dr. Benedikt Westermann
  

Vice Dean

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Senker
• Prof. Dr. Cyrus Samimi
  

Dean of Studies

• Prof. Dr. Roland Marschall

Women's Representative of the Faculty

• Dr. Sabine Rosenfeldt
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Dean's Office
Violaine Zigan
(doctoral studies, sick leave, appointments, inaugural lectures, homepage, general information)
NW I, Room 4.0.00.21
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2524
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-84-2524 or +49 (0)921 / 55-2535
E-mail: dekanat.bcg@uni-bayreuth.de

Faculty Administration
Henrike Begemann
(interests of the Faculty, meetings of the Faculty Council/ doctoral committees/ management committees, Habilitation, holiday leave, distributing budgetary funds, liaison with University Administration) 
NW I, Room 4.0.00.22
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2523
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-84-2523 or +49 (0)921 / 55-2535
E-mail: henrike.begemann@uni-bayreuth.de

Sandra Kopschitz
(administration of budgetary funds)
GEO II, Room 157
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2276
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-84 -2276
E-mail: sandra.kopschitz@uni-bayreuth.de

Faculty advisor for teaching and learning
Lina Fürst / Anke Nissels
Homepage PULS Study Support

Administration of Student Subsidies
Franziska Guhl
NW I, Room 4.0.00.21
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2594
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-84-2594
E-mail: franziska.guhl@uni-bayreuth.de

Mail Room
Detlev Weihermüller
NW I, Room 4.0.00.16
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2526
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-2535

Thorsten Franke
GEO II, Room 1
Tel.: +49 (0)921 / 55-2229
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-2351

Dean of Studies

Prof. Dr. Roland Marschall
Phone: 0921 / 55-2760
E-Mail: roland.marschall@uni-bayreuth.de

Faculty advisor for teaching and learning

Lina Fürst / Anke Nissels
B3, Room 13
Phone: 0921 / 55-2187
E-Mail: lina.fuerst@uni-bayreuth.de; anke.nissels@uni-bayreuth.de

Faculty advisor for CampusManagement

Dr. Marlen Goldschmidt
NW I, Room 6.0.01.23.1
Phone: 0921 / 55-5833
E-Mail: marlen.goldschmidt@uni-bayreuth.de

Faculty advisor for administration

Henrike Begemann
NW I, Room 4.0.00.22
Phone: 0921 / 55-2523
E-Mail: henrike.begemann@uni-bayreuth.de

Matters relating to examinations: Faculty BCG

Timo Frommann / Susanne Arlt
ZUV, Room 1.34
Phone: 0921 / 55-5253
E-Mail: pruefungsamt.bcg@uni-bayreuth.de

Study coordinators

• Firdevs Kesici (Bachelor, Biology)
  
• Dr. Marlen Goldschmidt (Master, Biology)
• Jasmin Samimi (Geography / Earth Sciences)
• Silke Reimann (Chemistry)
• Dr. Stephanie Thomas / Sylvia Sprödhuber (Master, Global Change Ecology)

Members

• Prof. Dr. Roland Marschall (Chairman)
• Prof. Dr. Stephan Clemens
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Peiffer
• Dr. Torsten Irrgang
• Prof. Dr. Rhett Kempe (Chemistry, advisory function)

Student Representatives

• Robert Kotschenreuther (Geo-Ecology)
• Tim Neynaber (Geography)
• Leopold Sieber (Chemistry)
• Tom Steinlein (Biology)

Administration of Student Subsidies

Franziska Guhl
NW I, Room 4.0.00.21
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2594
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-84-2594
E-mail: franziska.guhl@uni-bayreuth.de

Members

• Dr. Wolfgang Babel
  
• Prof. Dr. Bettina Engelbrecht
  
• Lorena Gaer (Stud. rer. nat.)
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Greiner
• Dr. Carolin Kerl
  
• Prof. Dr. Roland Marschall (Dean of Studies)
• Ute Meyer
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma
• Prof. Dr. Georg Papastavrou
• Dr. Sabine Rosenfeldt (Women's Representative)
• Prof. Dr. Cyrus Samimi
• Prof. Dr. Oliver Sass
• Prof. Dr. Dirk Schüler
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Senker
• Lisa Wagner (Stud. rer. nat.)
• Prof. Dr. Benedikt Westermann (Dean; Chairman)
• Dr. Michael Weyand

Meetings in Summer Semester 2023:

26.04.2023, 31.05.2023, 05.07.2023

Department of Biology

• Departmental chairman: Prof. Dr. Dirk Schüler, Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2729
• Department of Biology
• Biology (internal)
• Meetings (1:15 p.m., K 6, FAN B):
  17.04.2023, 22.05.2023, 26.06.2023

Department of Chemistry

• Departmental chairman: Prof. Dr. Georg Papastavrou, Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2750
• Department of Chemistry
• Meetings (1:00 p.m., BZKG-Seminar room, NW I):
  19.04.2023, 24.05.2023, 28.06.2023
  

Department of Earth Sciences

• Departmental chairman: Prof. Dr. Oliver Sass, Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2265
• Department of Earth Sciences
• Earth Sciences (internal)
• Meetings (2:00 p.m., K 1, GEO):
  19.04.2023, 24.05.2023, 28.06.2023
  

Biology

• Professors in the Department of Biology
  

Chemistry

• Professors in the Department of Chemistry
  

Earth Sciences

• Professors in the Department of Earth Sciences
  

At the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences, there are two ways to pursue doctoral research (leading to the degree "Dr.rer.nat."): individual doctoral research at the Faculty or a doctorate at the Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences (BayNAT).

When registering for doctoral studies, you will have to choose one of these two options; changing between these options at a later time is not permitted.

GUIDANCE FOR DOCTORAL RESEARCH (PDF)

Individual Doctoral Research

When the doctorate is pursued on an individual basis at the Faculty, the supervisor and doctoral researcher set out the basic points mutually agreed upon in a written supervisory agreement.

• Supervisory agreement in German as a  PDF or Word document
• Supervisory agreement DOCX (English)
• Amendment of the supervisory agreement in German (DOCX)
  
• Amendment of the supervisory agreement in English (DOCX)
  
• Doctoral commission
• Doctoral regulations of the Faculty (PDF) (from 25 January 2021)
  
• English translation: Doctoral regulations of the Faculty (PDF; 25 January 2021)
• Link for Online Registration Individual Doctoral Research
• Request for acceptance as doctoral candidate (Individual Doctoral Research)
• Request for acceptance as doctoral candidate (Individual Doctoral Research): English translation

Doctoral Research at BayNAT

If you choose to pursue doctoral research at the Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences (BayNAT) - a cross-faculty unit shared by Faculties I, II, and VI - you will complete your doctorate in a structured doctoral programme. In addition to your supervisor, two other mentors help supervise your doctoral project. The credit point requirements must also be met.

• Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences
• Supervisory agreement in German as a PDF or Word document
• Supervisory agreement in English as Word document
• Amendment of the supervisory agreement in German (DOCX)
  
• Amendment of the supervisory agreement in English (DOCX)
  
• Doctoral regulations of BayNAT (PDF) (from 25 January 2021)
• English translation: Doctoral regulations of BayNAT (PDF; 25 January 2021)
• Link for Online Registration Doctoral Research at BayNAT
• Request for admission to a BayNAT doctoral programme
• Request for acceptance as doctoral candidate (BayNAT)
• Request for acceptance as doctoral candidate (BayNAT): English translation

Membership in the University of Bayreuth Graduate School is open to every doctoral researcher, regardless of the form of his or her doctorate.

For questions on the topic of doctoral research, please contact the Office of the Dean:
Violaine Zigan
NW I, Room 4.0.00.21
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2524
Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-84-2524 or +49 (0)921 / 55-2535
E-mail: dekanat.bcg@uni-bayreuth.de

"The Habilitation is designed to formally determine one's scientific and pedagogical aptitude for a career as a university professor in a specific subject area (teaching qualification). The purpose of the Habilitation process is to give particularly qualified junior scholars the opportunity to independently assume responsibilities in research and teaching and allow them to achieve the qualification necessary for appointment as professor, if possible within four years, under the supervision of a mentoring group. “(…)”

Translation of an excerpt from the Faculty's Habilitation Regulations

For further information on the Habilitation process at the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences, please contact:

Henrike Begemann
NW I, Room 4.0.00.22
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2523
E-mail: henrike.begemann@uni-bayreuth.de

Lisa Wagner
Lorena Gaer
NW I, Room 4.0.00.24.1
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2212
E-mail: fs-bcg@uni-bayreuth.de

Homepage of the student representatives

• BcG Alumni e.V. Alumni Association of the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
  
• CSG e.V.: The Department of Chemistry's Alumni Portal