Integrated Research Training Group (IGK)
About the IGK
The Integrated Research Training Group (IGK) offers and ensures an attractive, comprehensive, structured and cross-disciplinary scientific qualification program for the PhD students involved in the SFB. The key components of the IGK’s qualification plan include a structured course program, which familiarizes the PhD students with the central theoretical concepts relevant to the SFB, and the facilitation of collaboration between projects and across research areas, which raises the PhD students’ awareness of cross-disciplinary research questions and methodologies. The PhD students will assume partial responsibility for workshops, summer schools, lecture series, and outreach events. The IGK is organized in close cooperation with the university’s general graduate program (GradUS), a quality assurance and networking program developed for doctoral researchers at Saarland University.
Practical Information
Furthermore, Saarland University’s Welcome Center is offering support to international researchers coming to Saarbrücken.
The university’s general graduate center Gradus offers a variety of opportunities including a versatile workshop program and various funding opportunities.
Events and Activities
- Distinguished Speakers in Language Science (the joint colloquium of the SFB and the department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics)
- Information Theory Course
- SFB Retreat
- PhD Colloquium (twice yearly)
- Tutorial groups
- Social events (get-togethers, culture nights…)
Members
Christine Ankener
Project A5
Clayton Greenberg
Project B4
Ekaterina Kravtchenko
Project A3
Iliana Simova
Project B5
Elli Tourtouri
Project C3
Erika Brandt
Project C1
Tyll Robin Lemke
Project B3
Elisabeth Rabs
Project A1
Irina Stenger
Project C4
Lilian Diana Awuor Wanzare
Project A2
Seong-Eun Cho
Project B5
David M. Howcroft
Project A4
Merel Scholman
Project B2
Mirjana Sekicki
Project A5
Associated Members
Contact
Patricia Borrull Enguix
Administrative Coordinator