PhD Abroad 101
A free, live hour on funded PhDs in Europe, the UK and the USA — hosted with the Chemical Engineering Club, IIT Tirupati, and open to students from every department and college.
Registration takes 30 seconds on Luma. You get the Google Meet link, a calendar invite and reminders one day and one hour before. The room holds 100 people, so please join a few minutes early.
This webinar ran live on 18 October 2026 with the Chemical Engineering Club, IIT Tirupati. The key ideas are written out below, and new sessions are listed on our webinars page.
See upcoming webinars →One hour, the whole map
Three questions to answer first
Most first emails to professors are written the same way, and most of them go unanswered. Before you write yours, make sure you can answer these three.
An advertised, funded position, or a scholarship you will bring with you. Without one of these, even an interested professor usually cannot say yes.
Name something specific from their recent work and connect it to something you have actually done.
A short email with a clear ask — and your CV attached — is far easier to answer than a long one.
From an IIT to a PhD in Germany
Deepak did his PhD at LMU Munich as a DAAD scholar and works as a research scientist in Munich. He is President of DAAD IndiAlumni, a registered non-profit association of Indian and German DAAD alumni, and spends a lot of his time answering exactly the questions this session covers — how the funding works, where the positions are, and how to get a professor to reply.
This is for you if
Free guides and an open PhD board
Our guides on CVs, emailing professors and funding are free, and so is our board of open PhD positions, updated daily.