Structured doctoral education at TU Wien is embedded in a focused and coherent research framework and is characterized by clearly defined structures and requirements throughout the doctoral phase. These include the selection and admission of doctoral candidates, subject-specific and transferable skills training, academic supervision and guidance, the dissertation agreement, regular progress reports, as well as defined evaluation and completion criteria.

Doctoral Colleges provide a structured research and training environment in which doctoral candidates are integrated into a common scientific topic or research field and benefit from the expertise of the participating researchers. In addition to individual supervision, structured doctoral education includes joint training activities, scientific exchange within the Doctoral College, and opportunities for networking with other doctoral candidates and researchers.

The current and completed doctoral colleges at TU Wien are listed and linked below, along with the respective coordinators.

Doctoral Colleges at TU Wien

• CO₂Refinery (M. Harasek)
• Computational Sustainability (I. Brandic) – TU Wien and JKU
• DC:{CD} – Computational Design (M. Wimmer)
• Digiphot (J. Stampfl) – TU Wien and FH Campus Wien
• ENROL – Engineering for Life Sciences (I. Giouroudi)
• LogiCS@TUWien – Logical Methods in Computer Science (S. Szeider)
• SecInt – Secure and Intelligent Human-centric Digital Technologies (M. Maffei)
• Water Resource Systems (G. Blöschl)

Doctoral Colleges at TU Wien with Industrial Partners

• NextGeneration SIC! (R. Hofmann)
• SIC! – Smart Industrial Concept! (R. Hofmann)
• TrustACPS – Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems (E. Bartocci)

FWF-Funded Doctoral Colleges at TU Wien

The FWF (Austrian Science Fund), opens an external URL in a new window supports several doctoral colleges at TU Wien:

• Automated Reasoning (G. Weissenbacher)
• FutureTHz – Future Wireless THz Communication Devices and Systems (M. Feiginov) – TU Wien and FH Oberösterreich
• MatureTissue (A. Teuschl) – TU Wien and UAS Technikum Wien
• PLFDoc – Precision Livestock Farming (M. Gelautz) – TU Wien, VetMed Uni Wien and FH Oberösterreich
• Scies4Free (W. Treberer-Treberspurg) – TU Wien and FH Wiener Neustadt
• SOLVER – Skills for Medical Device Research (I. Swoboda) – TU Wien and FH Campus Wien
• TU-DX: Towards Applications of 2D Materials (F. Libisch)
• Visual Heritage: Visual Analytics and Computer Vision Meet Cultural Heritage (S. Miksch) – TU Wien and FH St. Pölten
• VGSCO – Vienna Graduate School on Computational Optimization – TU Wien, Universität Wien, ISTA and WU Wien (FWF)

 Clusters of Excellence, opens an external URL in a new window at TU Wien

• Bilateral AI
• Circular Bioengineering
• Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
• Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health
• Quantum Science Austria

Additional Doctoral Colleges and Doctoral Schools at TU Wien

• CESAREF (F. Birkelbach)
• Chiralnanomat (N. Rabanal)
• STE[A+]M - STEM - stART'em – TU Wien and PH Wien (OeAD)
• GreenChem TechHub – TU Wien, BOKU and Universität Wien (FFG)
• Innovative Combinations and Applications of AI and ML (iCAIML) (S. Woltran)
• SafeSecLab
• TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School
• Vienna Doctoral College on Digital Humanism – TU Wien, Universität Wien, and WU Wien (WWTF)
• VSM – Vienna School of Mathematics – TU Wien and Universität Wien

Note: Doctoral candidates of TU Wien may be associated with a Doctoral College and organizationally assigned to it, even if their position is not funded by the DK. Such organizational assignment entails regular and active participation in the activities of the DK and fulfilment of the requirements of the respective doctoral training program. In case of insufficient participation, the organizational assignment to the Doctoral College may be terminated.

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