The Wolfgang-Gentner-Programme for Technical Doctoral Students at CERN

1. The Wolfgang-Gentner-Programmefor Technical Doctoral Students at CERN

2. Education Programmes at CERN • Summer Students (2 – 3 months, ~200 students each year) • students in their 3rd/4th year, mainly physics, also computing and engineering sciences • lectures + participation in a group at CERN (small project) • Technical Students (6 – 12 months, presently ~140 students) • Diploma and Master students in technical sectors • special programme for FH students from Baden-Württemberg • Doctoral Students (2 – 3 months, presently ~150 students) • technical topics (no physics analysis of e.g. LHC data, no theory) • German special programme (Wolfgang-Gentner-Programme) • Fellows (2 years, ~300 Fellows) • Junior-Fellowships: technical grade required, no PhD needed • Senior-Fellowships (Post-Doc): PhD required

3. German Special Programme • Spring 2007: CERN visit of State Secretary Meyer-Krahmer from BMBF (German Ministry for Education and Research) • result of visit • creation of “CERN Nutzungsinitiative” to support better usage of CERN by Germany • new German special programme for technical Doctoral Students (Wolfgang-Gentner-Programme) is part of “CERN Nutzungsinitative” • in addition to existing CERN Doctoral Student Programme • (almost) identical conditions • difference: funding (subsistence) by BMBF • mid- and long term goals: • better usage of CERN resources by Germany • more German staff at CERN (long term), presently ~7.5% German staff • Start: October 2007 • about ~40 German Doctoral Students after 3 years • Teil der CERN Nutzungsinitiative des BMBF 2007 • Neues deutsches technisches Doktorandenprogramm am CERN (Wolfgang-Gentner-Stipendien) • Zusatzprogramm zum existierenden CERN Doctoral Student Programme • (fast) gleiche Bedingungen wie existiendes CERN Doktoranden-Programm • Unterschied: Finazierung der Aufenthaltskosten am CERN durch BMBF • Mittel-/langfristige Ziele: • Bessere Nutzung der CERN Resourcen • Erhöhung des Anteils an deutschen CERN-Mitarbeitern • Start: Oktober 2007 • Volumen: bis zu 2 Mill. Euro/Jahr • ausreichend für bis zu ca. 20 Doktoranden pro Jahr bei 2 – 3 Jahren Aufenthaltsdauer • = nach 3 Jahren ca. 50 – 60 zusätzliche deutsche Doktoranden am CERN • Anfangsziel: 10 Doktoranden im ersten Jahr des Gentner-Programms

4. Expenditures • BMBF • funding of subsistence at CERN • 30 months initially granted, extension by 6 months up to 3 years maximum • monthly subsistence 3679 CHF (single, no family, no children, ~2750 Euro) • tax free, 4.02% deduction for health insurance • additional family + children allowances • travel reimbursements • travel to home university • travel to annual national meetings of relevant German association (DPG, VDI, etc.) • CERN (group) • integration costs • language course (typically 2 French or English courses) • tools needed for work (PC, notebook etc.) • travel reimbursements • travel to international conference (with talk) • invitation of German supervisor to CERN

5. Topics and Contact Persons

6. Start des Gentner-Programms

7. Gesamtanzahl: 154 Doktoranden

8. interesting trend: fraction of students in instrumentation and accelerator technology swapped since last year

10. Start des Gentner-Programms

12. First “Gentner Doktor” • First Gentner student (Marcel Schuh) finished his PhD on 22 June 2011 (“Gentner Doktor”) • article in Bulletin 30-31/2011 • Marcel Schuh continues as Research Associate in Karlsruhe at ANKA (synchrotron light source) • First “Gentner Doktorin” (Kerstin Lantzsch) on 23 August 2011 • First employments • 1 research associate (KIT, Germany) • 2 went to industry • 3 CERN Fellows • 1 CERN Staff(!) • 5 still finishing thesis • on temporary job at University

13. Renewal of Gentner Contract • Present contract from 2007 ends on 31 December 2011 • New contract BMBF – CERN – DESY starts in 2012 • runs until December 2014, then annually extended until December 2017 • main changes • funding of up to 13 new students per year = 39 students over 3 years • presently, on average 34 – 35 students in the Programme • candidates from all EU countries eligible to apply for the Gentner programme • present contract restricted to German candidates only • full 3 years (36 months) granted • was initially 30 months + 6 months extension on request • unchanged • candidates need to be enrolled at a University in Germany • travel reimbursements on same level as before • other conditions do not change

14. More Information • General information on the CERN education programmes • CERN-HR home page • https://hr-dept.web.cern.ch/hr-dept/ • topics for PhD theses • http://hrapps.cern.ch/public/f?p=124:7:471149713871611 • Wolfgang-Gentner-Stipendien • home page • http://cern.ch/wolfgang-gentner-stipendien/ • contact persons • http://cern.ch/wolfgang-gentner-stipendien/ContactsCERN.html • frequently asked questions (for Doctoral Students) • http://cern.ch/wolfgang-gentner-stipendien/Doktoranden/FAQ.html • how to apply • https://cern.ch/hr-recruit/students/german-doct.asp

15. Wolfgang Gentner • Wolfgang Gentner (1906 – 1980) • German nuclear scientist • major fields of work on • nuclear photo effect, gamma rays, biophysics, archaeometry • connected to CERN since the early days • from 1951 – 54 participating in negotiations leading to the foundation of CERN (together with Werner Heisenberg) • director of the CERN synchrocyclotron and first CERN Research Director 1954 – 59 • chair of CERN Scientific Policy Committee 1969 – 71 • President of CERN Council 1972 – 74 • appointed 1959 as first director of the new Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg Wolfgang Gentner (1965)