Graduate School of Computer Science

The Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science seeks to provide an ideal environment for pursuing doctoral studies in advanced computer science. We offer a stimulating, top-notch international research environment covering a wide variety of research areas, such as algorithms and data structures, machine learning, computer graphics and vision, database systems, artificial intelligence, logical methods, programming languages, computer architecture, and security, to name but a few of the more prominent areas. The graduate school is home to more than 540 doctoral candidates in all fields of informatics in Saarbrücken. Computer science established itself early on as a prominent field of research at Saarland University. It is now the core around which the following internationally renowned state-of-the-art research institutes in informatics are gathered: Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF) Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) CISPA – Helmholtz Center for Information Security All of these institutes are active partners in the graduate school. In addition, there is a long-standing collaboration between related research units and departments on campus, such as computational linguistics, cognitive sciences, business information systems, computer science and law, and the Centre for Bioinformatics, opening countless research opportunities. The Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science incorporates the co-located International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-TRUST). The same goes for the doctoral fellowship programme in software systems offered by MPI-SWS for those candidates in Saarbrücken. The Graduate School at Saarland University is also one of the possible home institutions for fellows in the cs@max planck doctoral programme.