The GAUSS PhD Programme in Environmental Informatics (PEI) is represented by the PEI Management Board. The Board decides on the admittance of doctoral students to the programme. The Board currently consists of the following members:

Members entitled to vote:

• Prof. Dr. Winfried Kurth (Leader and Speaker, Ecoinformatics)


• Prof. Dr. Stephan Waack (Leader of the Centre of Informatics, ex officio)


• Prof. Dr. Jens Grabowski (Dean of Students, Informatics, ex officio)

Advisory Members

• Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe (Dean, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, ex officio)


• Prof. Dr. B. Morgenstern (Speaker, Bioinformatics)


• Prof. Dr. M. Kappas (Speaker, Geoinformatics)


• Prof. Dr. Gert Lube (Speaker, Scientific Computing)

Authorised Supervisors

The authorised supervisors for the doctoral programme are subdivided in the three groups shown below. One supervisor must be chosen from either of the top two groups (environmental informatics or core computer sciences and scientific computing). An additional supervisor may be chosen from the group of applied sciences if it appears to be scientifically meaningful

Additional individuals can be given PEI membership by the PEI Management Board in agreement with the GAUSS Board of Directors, if they are proposed by the PEI speaker. The present 27 members belong to the Faculties for Mathematics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, the Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Medicine.

• Environmental informatics
• Core icomputer science and scientific computing
• Applied sciences