Teaching

The overarching goal of the qualification concept is to enable KD²School doctoral students to conduct independent and impactful research on the KD²School's focus topic of "Biosignal-Adaptive Systems". This goal is achieved firstly by creating a solid conceptual, technical, and methodological knowledge base. From a conceptual and technical point of view, we offer two dedicated lectures emphasizing understanding contextual decision making and designing biosignal-adaptive systems. From a methodological point of view, we put a strong emphasis on experimental research methods  (e.g. Behavioral Lab Exercise in the KD²Lab) and foundations of human subject research and open science (offered by the KIT HSR Hub) and research data management (offered by KIT RDM). The core courses are complemented with elective courses allowing doctoral students to specialize based on their individual research interests. 

Secondly, the qualification concept focuses on promoting interdisciplinary skills and integration into academic and non-academic networks, which enables graduates to successfully organize research teams and implement research ideas following a responsible research approach. This includes courses such as Research Ethics (offered by KIT ARRTI), Interdisciplinary Cooperation (offered by KIT KHYS) or Career Development (offered by KIT PEBA). 

Thirdly, the concept promotes the international integration and visibility of graduates through a wide range of networking opportunities with researchers and industry at home and abroad.

The interdisciplinary qualification at the interface between computer science, information systems, business & economics, and psychology & neuroscience is designed to prepare KD²School'graduates for both the scientific and non-scientific job market.

The overall qualification concept for the KD²School'is depicted here: