Doctorate at the TUM School of Natural Sciences

Contents

  • Doctoral studies at NAT: overview
    • Obtain a PhD in physics, chemistry, or bioscience (Promotion an der NAT)
    • Starting a doctorate at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
  • Apply for a doctorate (Bewerbung zur Promotion)
    • Admission requirements at the TUM School of Natural Sciences (Voraussetzungen)
      • 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 (Eintrag Promotionsliste)
      • Required documents
      • Diplomas, certificates, and certified copies (beglaubigte Kopien)
    • Direct Track from a Master’s program
  • Membership and roles during your doctorate (Mitgliedschaft, Promotionsliste)
    • 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 (Finanzierung)
      • 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 (Graduiertenzentrum)
    • 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 (Pflichtelemente)
      • Kick-off seminar of the TUM Graduate School
      • Subject-related training (Fachspezifische Qualifizierung)
        • Additional Courses not yet included in the catalog
        • External courses
      • Active participation in TUM’s academic environment (Einbindung ins akademische Umfeld)
      • 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 (Mindestmitgliedschaft)
      • 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 (Prüfungskommission)
        • 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
    • Acceptance of dissertation 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 (Anschrift)
    • Dean’s Office for doctoral studies (Dekanat)
    • Graduate Center of Natural Sciences (GC-NAT)
      • Management and administrative support
      • Speaker of the Graduate Center (Sprecher)
      • Doctoral candidate representatives (Promovierendenvertretung)
  • 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)

Resources

  • English-German glossary for doctoral studies
  • Legal Notice
    • Publisher
    • Legal status and representation
    • Supervisory authority
    • VAT identification number
    • Responsible for content
    • Technical Implementation
    • Terms of use
    • Liability diclaimer
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Doctorate at the TUM School of Natural Sciences
  • Qualification program during your doctorate (Qualifizierungsprogramm)
  • Subject-related training (Fachspezifische Qualifizierung)
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Subject-related training (Fachspezifische Qualifizierung)

The graduate program in natural sciences offers a wide variety of training modules relevant to the field. Each doctoral candidate is required to complete at least 10 credit points (CPs), which corresponds to six hours of weekly coursework (SWS) [1] as outlined in the regulations for earning doctoral degrees.

We encourage you to discuss potential subject-specific courses with your supervisor, who is familiar with both your Ph.D. project and your current skill set.

Our catalog is regularly updated, allowing for the addition of suitable modules and courses at any time. Furthermore, new courses may enhance the offerings available through the Graduate Center of Natural Sciences.

Note

Please note that for technical reasons, you should enter subject-specific qualification elements offered by the NAT School as “external recognitions.”

We are currently working on resolving this issue:

https://collab.dvb.bayern/spaces/TUMdssnat/pages/1307286440/Status

Additional Courses not yet included in the catalog

Please get in touch with the office of the Graduate Center of Natural Sciences if you are missing a course on a specific topic. We will support you by checking for new courses or inviting external lecturers.

As a member of the teaching staff at the TUM School of Natural Sciences, you may offer courses to support Ph.D. candidates; We support you and have some funding for traditional seminars and winter or summer schools, and even innovative or utterly new teaching formats are possible.

Furthermore, you may deepen and extend your physics skills by visiting modules from the special courses catalog of our Master’s programs. You may find the module catalog of special courses in the section for Master of Sciences / Special Courses). at the academics server.

External courses

A recognition of subject-related training offered by other departments or institutions is possible. The decision on whether a course is “subject-related” and fits your knowledge is up to your supervisor.

[1]

6 SWS correspond to a total of 63 time hours, as one teaching hour is just 45 minutes.

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