Active participation in the academic environment of TUM

Participation in teaching, like giving tutorials for Bachelor or Master students or supervising a practical course in physics or chemistry - at a level adequate for scientific qualification - is an indispensable element of your doctorate.

Sufficient involvement in the TUM School of Natural Sciences’s academic environment is generally obtained by participating in teaching activities and registering those within our Teaching Duties System hosted at the DSSNAT server.

Important

For all Ph.D. students, including external Ph.D. students, there is a minimum requirement of 2000 teaching points over your Ph.D.

This corresponds to the former minimum requirement of 2 exercise modules (tutorials, Übungen) of 2 weekly hours (SWS), each over one semester. The point system was introduced to balance different teaching tasks to this requirement of a total of 4 SWS, as in our experience, it is not possible to fairly balance the workload among Ph.D. students based on SWS alone. For example, practicals have a different workload than exercises, and corrections yield no SWS at all.

Generally, a minimum of 50% of the teaching points must be core teaching activities like tutorials (Übungen) or practical courses, i.e., teaching in the presence of students.

Internal Ph.D. students have a teaching load related to the funding: a 100% full-time contract corresponds to 2000 teaching points per semester, a 50% contract to 1000 points per semester, and a 67% contract to 1340 points per semester, etc.

Please find further information about registering your teaching in the section Reporting teaching at NAT, where you will also find a List of teaching services.