Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)

The international orientation of IPK offers an attractive research environment at the interface between theory and practice as well as basic and applied research. IPK supports all PhD students in their personal and professional development within the framework of a personnel development strategy.

IPK established a structured graduate program which is mandatory to all PhD students. In the course of a structured PhD work and doctoral study the PhD students encounter knowledge in a wide range of research fields and personal skills to support the PhD students to become scientifically independent and to prepare them to enter the complex scientific labour market or to take a leading position in a company.

The PhD students are provided with a broad range of professional and personal supervision in an excellent research environment. In the framework of the [link]IPK Graduate Program various theoretical scientific and non-scientific courses, seminars and lectures as well as practical workshops are offered. The PhD students are encouraged and supported to participate in national and international conferences and to publish their research results.