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Graduate School EES
PhD students doing their research in the framework of POLiS automatically take part in the Graduate School Electrochemical Energy Storage.
- The GS-EES addresses the full, community-spanning spectrum of electrochemical energy storage and conversion, from fundamental science to processing and application
- The GS-EES offers a comprehensive education and training program in these areas, emphasizing interdisciplinary aspects
- The GS-EES is committed to offer professional skills training

POLiS funds about 60 PhD students.
The GS-EES operates within the Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage CELEST.
Research fields are Li-ion batteries, post Li batteries, fuel cells, etc.
The GS-EES offers:
- An interdisciplinary block course Materials, Funcitoning and Technology of Batteries
- An Annual Summer School
- Workshops on scientific or method-related topics
- Professional skills training in the fields of scientific communication, management, good scientific practice and equal opportunities
- Three-month research stay abroad
Please visit the GS-EES Website for further information.
Important Links
Equal opportunities
The members of the Cluster and the board are strongly committed to ensure equal career opportunity irrespective of gender, age, origin, personal background and religion.
Our aims are:
- Creating an accepting, inclusive and diverse culture, which fosters inclusion and interculturality within the Cluster
- Raising awareness of equality and diversity and the impact of unconscious bias through various programs
- Achieving equal opportunities for women and men at all levels of the Cluster
- Raising the number of women at all qualification levels and especially in leadership positions
- Compatibility of family and career
For doing this, we will implement Cluster-specific measures and at the same time make use of established structures and instruments at Ulm University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), such as personnel development and diversity management units, monitoring of hiring procedures, initiatives for reconciliation of work and family life, and various mentoring and coaching programs.
Proportion of women in POLiS
- 16,0 % Female Principle Investigators
- 50,0 % Spokeswomen of Research Units
- 37,5% Female Representatives of the General Assembly
Nationalities in POLiS
- 15 different nationalities
- 27 % researchers from other countries
Important Links
- Equal Opportunities Unit Ulm University
- Equal opportunities office KIT
- Margarete von Wrangell-Program for women Habilitation program for excellent female scientists at universities in Baden-Württemberg
- Brigitte Schlieben-Lange-Program Program for women with children in the postdoc phase
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Stiftung Promotion of talented young female scientists with children
- MuT-Mentoring und Training Program for the in-service support and promotion of highly qualified young female scientists
- DFG - Walter Benjamin-Programm Promotion of an own research project following the doctorate
- Childcare at KIT
- Childcare at Ulm University
- United Nations Development Programme - TACKLING SOCIAL NORMS: a game changer for gender inequalities
- Mentoring program X-Ment at KIT
News

Dr. Montaha Anjass receives funding from Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard Foundation
Dr. Anjass, research group leader at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm and research associate in the Cluster of Excellence POLiS, has been selected as a scholarship holder of the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard…

International Women's Day
On the occasion of International Women's Day, Dr. Guiomar Hernández, awardee of the POLiS Award of Excellence, shares her thoughts on diversity and gender equity in science.

Call: Award of Excellence
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NASA awards Hatzell
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International brain power for new battery research
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Award of Excellence presented
POLiS is proud to announce the awardee for the POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers 2022. The board of POLiS and a selection committee has selected Dr. Hernández from Uppsala University,…

Girls' Day
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EU Prize for Women Innovators
The European Innovation Council (EIC) launched today the ninth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations, to…

Gender equality for a sustainable tomorrow
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Symposium for Women in STEM Field
Interdisciplinary Symposium for Women in STEM Field. The free virtual event on March 30-31 will address the question "Working digitally - curse or blessing?".

Women in Electrochemistry
Open access article on "Perspective—A League of Our Own: A Perspective on How to Start and Keep the Flow of Women in Energy Storage" by Guiomar Hernández and Adriana M. Navarro-Suárez in Journal of…

Call: POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers
The POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers is given annually to an outstanding female early and mid-career researcher working in one of the scientific topics of the POLiS Cluster. It entails…