Doctoral Degree and Habilitation

Doctoral studies

Please note: Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Academic Office can only be reached by email and ONLY in urgent cases by telephone until prospectively 20 April 2020.

Note regarding disputations: No disputations can take place until prospectively 20 April 2020.

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

Please note: Until prospectively 20 April 2020 ONLY electronically submitted admission applications with complete application documents will be processed (according to the instructions given in Docata under Documents checklist). In order for your application to be processed, you must SCAN ALL application documents and send them VIA EMAIL to the Academic Office (see contact and e-mail-address on the right side). Please send your documents in ONE PDF file (max. 10 MB).

Applications for admission must be submitted to the subject doctoral committee via the academic office (Studienbüro). Please hand in the following documents (view also FAQ): 

• Application for admission to doctoral procedures (Docata),
• Research project outline (PDF),
• University degree transcripts and certificates (certified copies or simple copies plus presentation of the originals),
• Supervision agreement (Section 5 subsect. 1 Doctoral Degree Regulations MIN Faculty (2018)), no particular form.

Submission of the dissertation

Please note: Until prospectively 20 April 2020 ONLY electronically submitted applications with complete application documents will be processed (according to the instructions given in Docata under Documents checklist). In order for your application to be processed, you must SCAN ALL application documents and send them VIA EMAIL to the Academic Office (see contact and e-mail-address on the right side). Please send your documents in ONE PDF file (max. 10 MB).

Please submit the following documents:

• Form for submission of the dissertation (please generate in Docata) (For submission please see note above)
• 5 bound copies of the dissertation (Until prospectively 20 April 2020 only 1 copy, please send to the Academic Office by post) 
• 5 electronic copies of the dissertation on data carriers (CD/DVD/Blu-ray), each to be attached to the bound copy (Only 1 data carrier, to be attached to the bound copy)
• Until prospectively 20 April 20: In addition by email a photo or scan of the signed affidavit 

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