The mentoring of young scientists in SE²A offers continuous support for their development at all career levels.
Within a novel Student Science Program, SE2A connects students to their research environment at the undergraduate level already. The SE2A research groups will propose small-scale research projects for undergraduates in their 2nd and 3rd years. These undergraduate projects will be reviewed by the SE²A Qualification and Equal Opportunity Committee to ensure a connection to recent scientific questions and integration into the lecture curriculum.
Talented students can apply for positions as student assistants to work in supervised international teams, such as in laboratories and experimental campaigns in order to improve their intercultural skills and to generate scientific value for SE²A.
The new Excellent.ING honours programme in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Braunschweig supports outstanding students in developing their individual attributes, particular addressing skills in interdisciplinary research. The SE²A Cluster makes this programme extremely attractive as it offers extraordinary opportunities to promote excellent master’s students whose abilities and wishes go beyond the standard master’s programmes.
The SE²A Cluster of Excellence is a cross-institute and cross-university research network with more than 60 research projects. Students' theses and student jobs are advertised on the websites of the institutes. An overview of the SE²A research projects and the responsible researchers can be found here.
Doctoral researchers in the SE²A Cluster of Excellence are supported by a structured programme with a wide range of general qualification measures. The participation in the graduate training of the SE²A Research Training Group (RTG) is mandatory for all doctoral researchers within the Cluster and open to young researchers working in close cooperation with the Cluster‘s research community (associates).
Elements of the SE²A RTG reflect the specific requirements and opportunities of the Cluster’s framework. These measures comprise:
The SE²A doctoral researchers programme is accompanied by the graduate programmes of the partner institutions: GradTUBS, LUH Graduiertenakademie and DLR Graduate Programme.
Researchers on a post-doc level with an excellent record of publications and research experience, who are employed at one of the SE²A-cluster participating institutions can apply for funding of a Junior Research Project (JRP). The total amount of funding is limited to 100k€ for a project duration of 18 months. Candidates must have a new and promising research idea within one of the three integrated cluster areas (ICAs). Research ideas and hypotheses in following scientific topics are welcome:
Calls for proposals will be published on this website. More information about the application can be found here.
Specific measures of SE²A include the establishment of Junior Research Groups (JRG) in different disciplines, such as engineering, mathematics, business economics, and natural science. These interdisciplinary teams are each led by a JRG leader recruited as a postdoc from the national or international research community.
JRG-A1 „Overall system evaluation“
Shaping the necessary transition pathways to achieve sustainable air transport solutions requires a sound understanding of the behavior of the air transport system itself. The task of the group is to analyze and evaluate alternative transition pathways in order to achieve long-term development goals for the air transport system.
JRG-B1 „Flow Physics of Laminar Wing and Fuselage“
The research activity focuses on applying hybrid laminar flow control (HLFC) by suction means on transport aircraft.
JRG-B2 „Flow Physics of Load Reduction
The Junior Research Group on "Flow Physics of Load Reduction" (JRG-B2) investigates and develops active load control techniques to alleviate dynamic loads on transport aircraft wings caused by gusts and unsteady flight maneuvers.
JRG-B5 "Long-Range Aircraft Configurations and Technology Analyses"
The group is focused on conceptual design of various aircraft configurations that feature potential future technologies and attempts to quantify their influence on the overall design space and capabilities of future aircraft configurations.
JRG-C3 „Fuel Cells for Aviation“
So far, aviation-specific requirements on fuel cell system designs remain largely unaddressed, especially on the megawatt level. Among them, drastic improvements on specific energy, reliability, lifetime, and flexibilities in operation and in airframe integration are of immediate interests. These challenges originated the Junior Research Group (JRG) “Fuel cells for aviation”, and have shaped its main deliverables.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gabriele Raabe
Member of the SE²A Management Board
+49 531 391 - 2628
g.raabe(at)tu-braunschweig.de
Tatjana Szalkau, M.A.
Scientific coordinator
+49 531 391-66664
tatjana.szalkau(at)tu-braunschweig.de
Cluster of Excellence SE²A –
Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Aviation
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Hermann-Blenk-Str. 42
38108 Braunschweig
se2a(at)tu-braunschweig.de
+49 531 391 66661