Doctorate at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
Contents:
Doctoral studies at NAT: overview
Starting a doctorate at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
Apply for a doctorate (Promotion)
Admission requirements at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
Foreign degrees and degree recognition (Anerkennung)
Application process overview (Bewerbung)
TUM ID and TUM email address
Use your TUM email address for official communication
Register with the TUM Graduate School and join a Graduate Center (Mitgliedschaft)
Supervision agreement (Betreuungsvereinbarung)
Mentor for your doctoral project
Entry on the list of doctoral candidates (Promotionsliste)
Required documents
Diplomas, certificates, and certified copies (beglaubigte Kopien)
Direct Track from a Master’s program
Membership and roles during your doctorate
Memberships related to your doctoral project
TUM School of Natural Sciences
Graduate Center of Natural Sciences or another TUM Graduate Center
TUM Graduate School (TUM-GS)
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
TUM ID (TUM-Kennung)
Optional enrollment as a doctoral student at TUM (Einschreibung ins Promotionsstudium)
Confirmation of doctoral candidate status (Bestätigung)
Other roles and affiliations
Funding your doctoral project
External institutions and external Graduate Centers
Changes during your doctorate at NAT (Änderungen)
Change your personal data (persönliche Daten)
Change the doctoral degree regulations that apply to you (Promotionsordnung)
Documents and regulations
Change your Graduate Center
Change your mentor
Change your supervisor (Wechsel von Doktormutter oder Doktorvater)
Qualification program during your doctorate (Qualifizierungsprogramm)
Qualification program tailored to your doctoral project
Good scientific practice (gute wissenschaftliche Praxis)
Mandatory elements of the qualification program
Kick-off seminar of the TUM Graduate School
Subject-related training
Additional Courses not yet included in the catalog
External courses
Active participation in TUM’s academic environment
Feedback discussion for your doctoral project (Feedbackgespräch)
Evaluation basis (settled in advance)
Confirmation
Presenting and discussing your research internationally
Address and Affiliation
Funding for publications
Minimum TUM-GS membership period of two years
Annual data confirmation in DocGS (Rückmeldung)
Further information
Optional elements of the qualification program
Internationalization
Transferable skills training
Report and confirm your qualification program (Bestätigung)
Report completed qualification elements
Do not enter qualification elements directly in DocGS
Confirmation of the qualification program (Bestätigung)
Physics-specific confirmation process
Chemistry-specific confirmation process
Funding for international research stays and conferences
Internationalization support from TUM-GS and GC-NAT (Internationalisierungsmittel)
Application and reimbursement (Erstattung)
TUM-GS Internationalization Support
TUM-GS Internationalization Grant
More information on the TUM-GS grant
Initiativ-Fonds of the Graduate Center NAT
TUM-GS information on internationalization support
Submit your doctoral thesis (Einreichung Doktorarbeit)
Submission steps
Title page for submission and publication (Titelblatt)
Submission date and earliest oral examination date
TUM-GS qualification program before submission (Qualifizierungsprogramm)
Earliest possible oral examination date
Dissertation assessment and acceptance (Annahmeverfahren)
Completing your doctorate: process overview
Examination committee and assessment process (Prüfungskommission)
Guidelines for doctoral examination committees
1. Evaluation criteria (“Bewertung”)
Doctoral regulations as of October 2021
Doctoral regulations April 2014 – October 2021
2. Principles for appointing doctoral examination committees
a) Rules on Conflict of Interest (“Befangenheit”)
b) Scientific independence
c) External reviewers
d) Participation of professorial members of the TUM School of Natural Sciences (NAT)
e) Exclusion of professional or personal dependencies
f) Conduct of the oral doctoral examination
3. Special regulations for “summa” procedures
a) Composition of the committee
b) Overall evaluation
4. Special regulations for “magna” procedures
a) Overall evaluation
Dissertation acceptance by circulation procedure (Umlaufverfahren)
Acceptance committee for Physics (
Dr. rer. nat.
)
Acceptance committee for Chemistry (
Dr. rer. nat.
)
Acceptance committee for Biosciences (
Dr. rer. nat.
)
Acceptance committee for Engineering (
Dr.-Ing.
)
Oral examination (Doktorprüfung)
Public announcements of doctoral examinations (Prüfungsankündigungen)
Information required for the oral examination announcement
Organization of the oral examination
Publish your thesis and complete your doctorate
Publish your thesis (Veröffentlichung)
Submit the final title page (finales Titelblatt)
Publication options
After publication
Embargoed publications (Sperrvermerk)
Final doctoral certificate (Promotionsurkunde)
TUM Graduate School certificate
Services from GC-NAT
Funding for international research stays and conferences
Grammarly license
Confirmation of membership (Mitgliedsbestätigung)
Annual performance review (Jahresgespräch)
Contact for doctoral studies at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
Email address
Postal address
Dean’s Office for doctoral studies
Graduate Center of Natural Sciences (GC-NAT)
Management and administrative support
Speaker of the Graduate Center
Doctoral candidate representatives
Downloads, forms, and links
Regulations and general information for doctoral studies at NAT (Promotionsordnung, Regelungen)
Templates and forms (Formulare)
Supervision agreement (Betreuungsvereinbarung)
Membership forms (Mitgliedschaft)
Submission forms and templates
Confirmation of doctoral candidate status (Promotionsbestätigung)
English-German glossary for doctoral studies
Doctorate at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
Index
Index
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B
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C
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D
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E
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F
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M
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A
Abstract of the Master's thesis
Academic misconduct
Acceptance committee
Acceptance of the dissertation
acceptance of the dissertation
,
[1]
,
[2]
Acceptance prozedure
address
Admission
announcement of oral examination
,
[1]
Annual data confirmation
annual data confirmation in DocGS
Application
application process
Assessment process
B
Betreuer
Betreuerin
Betreuung
Bioscience
C
Certificate
Certified copy
change of mentor
change of regulations
change of supervisor
changes of your doctorate
Chemical engineering
Chemistry
Confirmation of status as doctoral candidate
confirmation PhD status
confirming qualification program
contact
Curriculum vitae / résumé
D
Dean's Office
Dean's office (doctoral studies)
Degree awarding institution
Diploma
Direct Track
direct track
discussion in the international scientific community
Dissertation
DocGS
,
[1]
Doctoral candidacy list
Doctoral candidate
Doctoral candidates
Doctoral degree
Doctoral examination committee
Doctoral matters
doctoral procedure
Doctoral project
Doctoral regulations
Doctoral studies
Doctoral thesis
Doctorate
Doktormutter
,
[1]
Doktorprüfung
Dr. rer. nat.
Dr.-Ing.
DSSNAT
E
Einschreibung
email
employment
Enrollment
enrollment
Enrollment as a doctoral student
enrolment
Entry onto the list of doctoral candidates
examination
examination committee
,
[1]
Examination process
Examiner
external doctoral candidate
F
fast track
Feedback discussion
feedback discussion
Final certificate
Foreign degree
foreign degrees
former Department of Chemistry
former Graduate Center Chemistry
former Graduate Center Physics
former Physics Department
Funding
funding
G
Good scientific practice
,
[1]
Graduate Center of Natural Sciences
,
[1]
,
[2]
Grammarly
guidelines for doctoral examination commmittees
I
Immatriculation
immatriculation
Immatrikulation
Initiativ-Fonds
internal doctoral candidate
internationalisation funds
Internationalization support
K
Kick-Off Seminar
L
list of doctoral candidates
M
magna cum laude
Mandatory elements
mandatory qualification program
Master's degree
Master's thesis
Membership
Membership confirmation
membership confirmation
membership of the Graduate Center NAT
Mentor
mentor
minimum membership
N
Natural Sciences
O
Office of Doctoral Affairs
Officially certified copy
Optional elements
optional qualification
Oral examination
oral examination
,
[1]
oral examination: conduct
overview on submission and examination
P
personal data
PhD
PhD student
PhD student confirmation
Physics
proofreading service
Publication of the thesis
Q
Qualification element
Qualification program
qualification program
,
[1]
R
Recognition of foreign degrees
Regulations for the Awarding of Doctoral Degrees
reporting qualification program
representatives of the Doctoral Candidates
Required documents
Requirements
requirements
Rundlauf
S
speaker of the Graduate Center of Natural Sciences
status discussion
student status
Subject-related training
submission of the dissertation
,
[1]
Submission of the doctoral thesis
summa cum laude
Supervision agreement
supervision agreement
Supervisor
supervisor
,
[1]
Sworn statement / Affidavit
T
Title page
title page
,
[1]
Transcript
Transferable skills training
TUM account
,
[1]
TUM email address
TUM Graduate School
,
[1]
TUM School
TUM School of Natural Sciences
,
[1]
TUM-GS Internationalization Grant
TUM-GS membership
TUM-ID
,
[1]
,
[2]
TUM-Kennung
U
Umlauf-Verfahren
,
[1]
Umlaufverfahren
W
Wechsel der Promotionsordnung
Written evaluations
Written reports