Submission of the doctoral thesis

Once you have completed your research and the mandatory qualification program, you can begin the doctoral examination process by submitting your doctoral thesis.

Note

Before submitting your thesis, ensure you follow the procedures outlined in the section on Reporting and confirmation of the qualification program.

Specifically, you must complete the following:

• Subject-Related Training,

• Active participation in the academic environment of TUM,

• Discussion in the international scientific community.

Additionally, you are required to submit the corresponding form that has been signed by both you and your supervisor (ink on paper).

Submission of the dissertation

The process to submit your thesis consists of two steps:

1. Application for submission: Complete this step online in the DocGS system and upload the PDF of your dissertation

2. Submission of paper documents: Deliver the required documents to the Center for Study and Teaching / Office of Doctoral Affairs in downtown Munich.

You can find a list of the necessary documents and additional steps on the TUM Graduate School’s Wiki. Make sure to submit the paper documents to the examination office at TUM in Munich. Submissions can be made via mail, internal mail, or in person.

Once the examination office has reviewed your documents, they will forward them to the Dean’s Office at the TUM School of Natural Sciences. After receiving the paper documents, the Dean’s Office at NAT will guide you through the evaluation of the dissertation and the acceptance process by the School, leading to the oral exam.

Note

The title page should be formatted according to the TUM layout and include the content from the following templates:

• files/titelblatt-dissertation_NAT.pdf

• files/titelblatt-dissertation_NAT.docx

The submission date will be provided when you submit your materials at the Center for Study and Teaching (CST). Full information regarding the committee and acceptance date will only be available upon publication of the dissertation after your exam.

Remark on the dates of handing in and the oral exam

At the TUM School of Natural Sciences your thesis submission date is not bound by the meeting dates of the School Council. But keep the following in mind:

Qualification program of TUM GS

As a Graduate Center of Natural Sciences member, you must provide the report on the qualification program in advance. This can be done in person or you send the signed report by (internal) mail.

The submission process involves DocGS, the TUM-GS platform. Once you’ve submitted your report to us, there will be a short processing time before the section for submitting your thesis becomes active in DocGS.

Members of other (thematic) Graduate Centers need to contact their graduate center to make sure that the qualification program is fully documented in DocGS, and you may hand in the thesis.

Earliest possible exam date

The deadline for the decision of the faculty according to §12 S. 2 PromO (Umlaufverfahren) was set to one week by the Dean. The deadline for the announcement of the oral exam according to §14 (2) PromO is one week. With the necessary processing time, this results in the fact that the exam date can not be earlier than three weeks after all written reports from the examiners were received by the Dean’s Office!

This includes the time required to handle the documents given the deadlines, but please keep in mind that delays might happen for various other reasons. While we have a fast and efficient team at the Dean’s Office at NAT, the examination process significantly depends on input from others, including our faculty and our doctoral candidates.