
Hannover Graduate School for Neurosciences, Infection Medicine and Veterinary Sciences

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Why attend the HGNI?
After several years of studing veterinary medicine, biology or other life sciences it is worth asking the question why students should go on investing time, money, and work into their further education.
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Here are the answers:
- Advanced training in a discipline or profession will give you greater flexibility on the job market. You can move to different jobs within your field or change your career entirely, taking with you the knowledge and strategic skills you have acquired.
- A graduate degree can help you improve your professional position economically or in terms of responsibility.
- A graduate degree like the PhD is required for going into certain professions.
- Last but not least: a graduate degree can give you personal satisfaction and confidence deriving from advanced learning.

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The HGNI offers a structured doctoral training in the form of research-focused doctoral studies, intensive individual supervision of thesis projects, as well as preparing doctoral students for positions in interdisciplinary and international research contexts.

For a personal consultation appointment please contact the HGNI management:
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Behrens or the HGNI office
Structural concept of the HGNI
The HGNI provides the overarching roof of three different PhD programmes: “Systems Neuroscience”, “Animal and Zoonotic Infections”, and “Veterinary Research and Animal Biology”. The PhD students have different backgrounds: They finished the TiHo Master programme "Animal Biology and Biomedical Sciences", the studies of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover or other national faculties or they come from other life sciences offered by universities throughout the world.

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HGNI executive board
Director
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Beineke
Vice Director
- Prof. Dr. Silke Rautenschlein
Programme speakers
- Prof. Dr. Holger Volk (PhD programme Systems Neuroscience)
- Prof. Dr. Silke Rautenschlein (PhD programme Veterinary Research and Animal Biology)
- Prof. Dr. Maren von Köckritz-Blickwede (PhD programme Animal and Zoonotic Infections)
Scientific staff representative
- Ina Leiter, PhD
Students' representative
- Samira Görig
Advisory members:
HGNI management
- Prof. Dr. Beatrice Behrens
Vice president for research
- Prof. Dr. Michael Pees
Official HGNI statutes
Official statutes of the Hannover Graduate School for Neurosciences, Infection Medicine and Veterinary Sciences (HGNI)
The members of the HGNI form the general meeting. The tasks of the general meeting are fixed in the order for the HGNI.
HGNI Ordnung (Verkündungsblatt 288/2021 of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, 06.01.2022)
HGNI Ordnung (English)