The habilitation serves to formally determine the scientific and pedagogical suitability to become a professor in a specific subject area at universities (teaching qualification). The determination of the teaching qualification is the prerequisite for the additional granting of the teaching license.
The aim of the habilitation procedure is to give particularly qualified young academics the opportunity to qualify for appointment to a professorship and to take on independent tasks in research and teaching for this purpose.
The habilitation serves to formally establish the scientific and academic
pedagogical aptitude to become a professor in a specific subject area at universities (teaching qualification). The subject area must be assigned or assignable to the Faculty of Medicine.
Please note: We have simplified the procedure for submitting your habilitation documents!
For applicants who were accepted as habilitation candidates on or after October 1, 2016, the habilitation procedure will be carried out in accordance with the Habilitation Regulations of December 5, 2016 (PDF, 62 KB) durchgeführt.
Acceptance procedure
Fill out the application for acceptance as a habilitation candidate (PDF, 120 KB) in accordance with the LMU Munich habilitation regulations for the Faculty of Medicine dated December 5, 2016,
and compile the documents required therein.
You can send the complete application for acceptance as a habilitation candidate:
For detailed information on the documents to be submitted, please refer to the information sheet on the habilitation procedure in accordance with the Habilitation Regulations dated December 5, 2016 (last amended on September 19, 2025). (PDF, 136 KB) v
Once the extended faculty council has accepted the candidate as a habilitation candidate, the managing subject mentor convenes a meeting between the subject mentor and the habilitation candidate for the purpose of drawing up a target agreement (PDF, 72 KB). The target agreement signed by the subject mentor and the habilitation candidate is forwarded to the HAP office in the dean's office for countersigning by the dean. The target agreement only becomes effective after it has been countersigned by the dean.
For detailed information on the documents to be submitted, please refer to the information sheet on the habilitation procedure in accordance with the information sheet on the habilitation procedure in accordance with the Habilitation Regulations dated December 5, 2016 (last amended on September 19, 2025). (PDF, 136 KB)
The Institute for Didactics and Educational Research in Medicine (DAM) has been commissioned by the Medical Faculty of the LMU Munich to carry out the habilitation process:
Information on the participation of the DAM in the habilitation procedure
Habilitationen,
Dean's Office Faculty of Medicine
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Bavariaring 19
80336 Munich
Personal consultations are only possible by prior appointment.
- Please let us know your request by e-mail, telephone or post.
- You can also post letters in the deanery's letterbox (located on the outside of the fence). The letterbox is a standard letterbox and not a parcel station.
Phone: (089) 4400-58906, generally manned from Monday to Thursday until 12:00 noon!
E-Mail: habilitation@dek.med.uni-muenchen.de