The THESys Graduate Program is the doctoral program of HU’s Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). It is organized by the institutes and faculties of HU that collaborate in the IRI THESys together with regional partners, PIK (Potsdam), IAMO (Halle), IGB (Berlin), ZALF (Müncheberg), GFZ/RIFS (Potsdam). 

The THESys Graduate Program offers doctoral candidates a three-year training program in human-environment research. Research at IRI THESys focuses on land use change, integrative food systems, water cycles, climate change and the role of infrastructures in transformation processes. Scientists at IRI THESys come, for example, from agricultural economics, social anthropology, geography, philosophy, (climate) physics or economics.

The THESys Graduate Program is open to all doctoral candidates from institutions involved in IRI THESys on application. The guiding principle behind doctoral research in the program is to foster disciplinary depth embedded in an interdisciplinary context. Thus, the curriculum covers modules on developing interdisciplinary competencies, deepening disciplinary specialization, entering new disciplines and training key competencies. Moreover, the program offers its students access to summer schools and to travel funds.