Doctoral Degree and Habilitation

Doctoral studies

Please note: The academic office (Studienbüro) can currently be contacted by email and, in urgent cases, by telephone. Please submit all requests and forms by email in one single pdf file (max 10 MB). You can find the contact details (email address and phone number) for doctoral matters in the right hand column.    

The MIN faculty’s doctoral procedures

On the page doctoral procedures at the MIN faculty you will find detailed information about the faculty’s doctoral procedures. You will also find the doctoral degree regulations of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences of Universität Hamburg, abbr.: Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018) and various forms and information sheets to download.

Admission to doctoral studies

Note: Please regard the requirements for electronic submission of forms and requests (one single pdf file by email to promotion@informatik.uni-hamburg.de, max. 10 MB).

Applications for admission must be submitted to the subject doctoral committee via the academic office. Please hand in the following documents by email (view also FAQ and Section 5 subsect. 1 Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty): 

• Online application form for admission to doctoral procedures (Docata)
• Research project outline (pdf form)
• Supervision agreement (pdf form)
• Copies of the university degree transcripts and certificates (with certified translations in case the original language is not German or English)
•  ( (2018), no particular form)
• Curriculum vitae
• Copy of the university entrance qualification
• Copy of the identification document (identity card, passport) 

Submission of the dissertation

Note: Please regard the requirements for electronic submission of forms and requests (one single pdf file by email to promotion@informatik.uni-hamburg.de, max. 10 MB).

Please submit the following documents:

• Form for submission of the dissertation (please generate in Docata), by email and by post to the academic office
• Photo or scan of the signed affidavit (Eidesstattliche Versicherung), by email
• Dissertation (pdf, max 20 MB), to be uploaded in Docata
• 1 bound copy of the dissertation, to be sent by post to the academic office
• 1 electronic copy of the dissertation on a data carrier (CD/DVD/Blu-ray), to be attached to the bound copy 

Note: Please contact the academic office if your admission to the doctoral procedures took place under the Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2010) or the  Promotionsordnung des Fachbereichs Informatik (1998). You may switch to the new Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018) when submitting your dissertation, view also Transitional regulations (PDF).

Informatics subject doctoral committee

The subject doctoral committee Informatics meetings are not open to the public. The upcoming meeting dates are published in the right hand column.  

Please submit your requests to the academic office and no later than one week prior to the relevant committee meeting.

Members of the subject doctoral committee Informatics