Members of the International Max Planck Research School
The School is hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, located on Göttingen Campus. The Partner Institutes at the University of Göttingen are the Institute for Astro- and Geophysics at the Faculty of Physics and the Geoscience Center at the Faculty of Geoscience and Geography.
The School is guided by an Executive Committee (Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kleine) and run on a daily basis by the Coordination Office (Scientific Coordinator: Dr. Sonja Schuh, Assistant: Johanna Wagner-Farssi).
New students to be admitted to the School are selected by the Recruitment and Admissions Committee. Student research is guided by Thesis Advisory Committees. IMPRS students are normally part of the Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS).
The Solar System School typically comprises around 40 PhD Candidates at any given time. They are advised by a similar number of Faculty Members and senior scientists. The student body is represented by elected Student Representatives.
In 2025, the number of the School's Alumni has reached 246. We are continuously improving our alumni network offers.
PhD candidates in the International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen and at TU Braunschweig
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Postdocs graduated from IMPRS within the last year, currently concluding their post-doc wrap-up phase at MPS or at one of the university partner institutions.
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Various offers for alumni to stay in touch with the IMPRS and with each other. For the names of all IMPRS graduates, see the list of finished PhD theses.
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The IMPRS Executive Committee consists of the spokesperson, the scientific coordinator, the directors of the MPS, representatives of the university partner institutes, and the elected internal student representative(s). Chair of the Executive Committee: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kleine.
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The IMPRS Recruitment and Admissions committee is responsible for hiring and admission. It consists of the spokesperson, the coordinator, directors and research group leaders, appointed senior scientist representatives, the elected internal student representative and the elected gender equality officers.
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The faculty members of the Solar System School are professors, directors or senior scientists at one of the participating institutes with a teaching affiliation at one of the participating universities. The faculty is complemented by additional scientists at the participating institutes who are involved in supervision, thesis committees, and in teaching.
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