In this Research Training Group on Rock-Water Interaction, funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), interdisciplinary research is carried out. This geoscientific programme of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences was established in order to investigate the active role of fluids in a variety of Earth processes. The programme has entered its third and final 3-year phase. Two central research themes are the transport of material in the fluid phase, and reactions which occur at mineral-fluid interfaces. Individual student projects are supervised by active research scientists, representing geology, petrology, environmental physics, environmental geochemistry and geography. State-of-the-art analytical facilities are available in each of these areas.

This part of the larger DAAD- and DFG-funded PHD-Programme (Promovieren an Hochschulen in Deutschland) has been granted to the former Faculty of Earth Sciences (now Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences). Stipends are not available within this programme, but may be obtained from DAAD or other funding agencies. The programme provides instead additional financial support for successful doctoral students, including funding for short course participation, support for research stays at collaborating laboratories, etc. The programme is open to doctoral students of the geoscientific disciplines in the natural sciences of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences.