Month: April 2015

Chalmers Doctoral Student Guild Wants you!

Do you want to take part in improving the doctoral education at Chalmers?

A new Chalmers Board of Graduate Students will be elected on the Chalmers Doctoral Student Guild (DS) general assembly by the end of May.

We are looking for one interesting candidate from each department at Chalmers.

We are in special need for candidates from these following departments:

Applied Information Technology

Biology and Biological Engineering

Shipping and Maritime Technology

Signals and Systems

As a DS board member you will have the chance to represent  PhD students in different decision making bodies at Chalmers.

The board will be elected for the period starting July 2015 to June 2016.

The workload can be adapted to suit each member’s needs. However, a minimum of 20 hours is expected.

Check out our webpage at

http://www.dokt.chs.chalmers.se/

If you are interested or have questions, please send an email to

dokt@chs.chalmers.se

Research Supervisor of the Year 2015 is awarded to Henk Wymeersch

The Research Supervisor of the Year Award this year will be presented to Henk Wymeersch, Associate Professor at department of Signal and System, for his exceptional and exemplary role as a supervisor.
Henk Wymeersch stood out among 14 prominent supervisors which were all nominated by Doctoral students within their own research groups. The honoree was selected by the DoctoralStudent Guild (DS) based on a series of PhD students interviews where great consideration were put to find a candidate that holds all the different competences that DS finds important for successful supervision.
This year’s prize winner Henk Wymeersch excels in his ability to create a dedicated and inspiring environment and to promote both professional and personal developments of his group members,which are deeply appreciated by his students.

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