FACULTY OF

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Doctorate at the Faculty of Computer Science (FIN)

• Recommendations for conducting ongoing PhD procedures during the COVID19 pandemic
• Information channel for PhD students: Mailing list (especially important for external PhD students and also scholarship holders who are not WiMis at the FIN)

Hints and guidelines for a successful doctorate at the Faculty of Computer Science

• Guideline: Doctoral procedure at the FIN
• Doctoral regulations of the FIN (2018)
  • Amendment (2018)
  • Doctoral regulations of the FIN – 2nd amendment (2016)
  • Doctoral regulations of the FIN (2012)
  • Doctoral regulations of the FIN (1999)
• List of documents to be submitted when opening a doctoral procedure
• Appointment of external reviewers for doctoral and postdoctoral procedures

• Recommendation of the Faculty Days and the German Association of Universities (DHV):
  Good scientific practice for the writing of scientific papers

Information and guidelines for PhD Students

Extract from the doctorate regulations of the faculty of computer science

Information sheets and forms

• Applying for the doctoral status: information sheet 1 (additional hints in german), form
• Preparation of the thesis proposal: information sheet 2
• Proof of thesis proposal: form 1
• Proof of doctoral day: form 2 
• Title page of the dissertation at the opening of the doctoral procedure: form 3
• Declaration of honor: form 4
• Title page of the deposit copies: form 5
• Declaration on criminal conviction: form 6
• Regulations on the submission of deposit copies

Important information on the use of forms 3, 4, 5 and 6

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