New PhD Science Day (FÖP)

The New PhD Science Day takes the place of the "FÖP" / faculty open presentation. Here you present a short version of your prelim talk, adapted with the feedback you received from your thesis advisory committee, to your peers. This is also an event focused on student networking and community building, especially for new PhD students.

The next New PhD Science Day will take place on November 11 2026, from 10:00 on. It will be a hybrid event, in person in lecture hall 1, UZA2 (Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna), or online.

To participate as a speaker, completion of your first thesis advisory committee meeting (prelim) is a prerequisite. To register as a speaker, please send an email to vds-mes.cemess(at)univie.ac.at with the following documents 1 month before the Science Day:

• Exposé (reworked with the feedback you received from your committee in your prelim meeting)

• Regulations relating to good scientific practice (SL/W1)

• Registration of the doctoral thesis topic and announcement of the supervisor(s) (SL/D11)

• if applicable: Approval of financial support of the doctoral thesis topic (SL/W4)

 Please prepare a presentation of 15-20 minutes length that includes the following:

• Short introduction to your topic for listeners not working directly in your field

• Preliminary results and achievements (e.g. adapting existing methods to your own project counts as a result)

• Future plans and experiments in your project

• Impact that your project could have in the context of the doctoral school (exploring new theories, connecting research fields, ...) or for general society

• Timeplan of your PhD (1 slide)

• Funding sources (1 slide)

Ideally, preliminary results and future plans should take up about half of your presentation each.

A 10-15 minute discussion with your peers and the doctoral advisors will follow your presentation.

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