Award for Best Doctoral Supervision
For the fifth time, GRADE announces the award for the best doctoral supervision at Goethe University. We want to encourage dedicated doctoral supervisors in their work, make their commitment visible and recognize them for their achievement.
Have you experienced excellent supervision as a doctoral student? Have you received reliable advice with respect to your doctoral studies and your future career path? Have you always felt that you were in good hands and supported with respect to your research?
Then nominate your supervisor!
The award will be presented during a ceremony on November 30, 2026.
| Who can nominate? | Groups with at least three doctoral candidates and/or graduates up to 1 year after their disputations have the right to nominate. |
| Who is nominated? | Professors, lecturers and junior research group leaders of Goethe University |
| How can you nominate? | Send your nomination by September 15 to GRADE via this link: https://tinygu.de/nomsupervisor. This involves filling out a questionnaire and writing up to one page of free text. |
| Who makes the selection? | GRADE’s internationally staffed scientific advisory board serves as the selection committee. |
| How is the selection made? | The criteria include supervisory performance, the support of doctoral students with respect to research, support in questions of career planning as well as a particular commitment to promoting early career researchers. |
The award money must be specifically used to further support the early career researchers of Goethe University. The recipients must provide GRADE with an account of the use within a time period of two years.
Award Ceremony
The award will be presented on 30 November 2026 during a ceremonial event at the Casino Building on the Westend Campus.
The event is open to all nominees, the doctoral researchers and postdocs who nominated them, as well as interested members and guests from all faculties and departments of Goethe University. Registration will open in late September 2026.
Program:
| 15:30 | Arrival and registration | |
| 16:00 | Welcome Address Prof. Dr. Sabine Andresen vice president for Equal Opportunities, CV Career Development & Advancement, Diversity & Gender Equality chair woman GRADE board of directors |
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| 16.15 | Keynote lecture Prof. Maresi Nerad, PhD Director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education, University of Washington |
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| 16:45 | Tribute to the nominees | |
| 17:00 | Presentation of the award | |
| ab 18:00 | Get-together with drinks and fingerfood | |
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| Venue: | Goethe-Universität Campus Westend Casino-Gebäude, Raum 1.801 Nina-Rubinstein-Weg 1 60323 Frankfurt am Main |
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