Registration of your habilitation

To register for a habilitation, you must first prove your professional and pedagogical qualifications. Here you will find information on which documents you need to submit.

Admission requirements for registration for habilitation:

  • Successfully completed university degree
  • Completed doctorate
  • Educational qualifications
  • Special expertise of scientific work (outstanding doctoral degree and scientific publications)

You must provide the following documents:

Assessment of pedagogical expertise:

You will need the following documents to assess your pedagogical expertise:

  • Proof of participation in medical didactics qualification programs or courses comprising at least 60 working units of 45 minutes each in accordance with the standard “Certificate in Medical Didactics of Bavarian Universities” at the “basic level” - or - an equivalent credential certified by the "MedizinDidaktikNetz" (MDN)
  • Participation in academic courses in the subject area for which you are seeking teaching certification (scope: at least 4 semesters of two SWS each). Please organize the list of your courses by semester and number of hours.
  • Results of your personal teaching evaluations (scope: at least 20 hours of 45 minutes each) and a certificate of the personal teaching evaluation issued by the Institute for Didactics and Educational Research in Medicine (DAM)

We recommend that you visit the website of the Institute for Didactics and Educational Research in Medicine (DAM) at an early stage to find out about the content and formal requirements and to obtain the necessary certificates.

Publication requirements:

  • At the time of the habilitation application, 8-10 publications should already be available (as a generally accepted standard, these should be original research papers)
  • At least 4 of these should be original research papers with first or last authorship in journals listed in Medline/PubMed. The proportion of shared authorship must not exceed 25% (please indicate your own contribution in cases of shared first or last authorship).
  • Publications that have already been used to obtain another academic degree (such as M.Sc., dissertation, Ph.D., etc.) cannot be taken into account.

How to structure your list of publications:

  • Please structure your list of publications into the following sections:
    1. Original research papers with first or last authorship (only articles listed in Medline/PubMed)
    2. Original research papers with co-authorship (only articles listed in Medline/PubMed)
    3. Case Reports (only articles listed in Medline/PubMed)
    4. Reviews articles (only articles listed in Medline/PubMed)
    5. Book chapters
    6. Other publications (e.g., letters to the editor)
  • For manuscripts that have been accepted for publication or are in press, please include the confirmation of acceptance.
  • Please list the publications in each section chronologically, starting with the most recent publication
  • For each publication, please indicate the impact factor Impact Faktor (IF) of the journal for the year of publication. If the IF is not yet known, please indicate the IF for the previous year.
  • Highlight your name in bold

Certificates:

  • Certificate of completion of studies (certificate of medical or dental examination, diploma, master's certificate, or similar)
  • For doctors and dentists: license to practice medicine and, if available, recognition as a specialist (confirmation from the state medical association that the requirements for recognition have been met is sufficient as proof)
  • Doctoral degree certificate

The following documents must also be submitted:

  1. Application for admission to the habilitation (PDF, 176 KB)
  2. tabular CV (in German) with particular emphasis on academic career. To assist you, we have provided a template (DOCX, 35 KB).
  3. Exposé of the habilitation project
  4. Report on lectures, research work, and courses held to date (if not already listed for pedagogical expertise)
  5. For public sector employees: Proof of employment (e.g., scan of the certificate of appointment as a research assistant, high-quality scan, at least 600 dpi).
  6. If you are not employed in the public sector: A current official certificate of good conduct (high-quality scan, min. 600 dpi)
  7. Declaration stating whether and, if so, with what success a habilitation application has been submitted to another university and whether an academic degree has been revoked or such proceedings are pending.

Your academic mentors:

Your habilitation will be supervised by a committee of three academic mentors.

Please suggest who you would like to be a member of your academic mentoring team.

Members must meet the following requirements:

  • Hold a professorship or adjunct professorship (apl-Prof.), be a private lecturer, or be a retired professor or retired university lecturer
  • Two of the members must represent the habilitation subject(s) or a related subject
  • A maximum of two members may belong to another faculty at LMU or another university if there are not enough representatives of the subject at LMU
  • The academic mentors will appoint an executive mentor.

How to submit your documents:

Please note: We have simplified the procedure for submitting your habilitation documents! You will only have to submit the electronic version and one paper copy of your documents!

Acceptance procedure

Fill out the application for acceptance as a habilitation candidate (PDF, 176 KB) in accordance with the LMU Munich habilitation regulations for the Faculty of Medicine dated December 5, 2016,
and compile the documents required therein.

  • Please send us all the documents required for your habilitation application in advance by email to habilitation@dek.med.uni-muenchen.de (via Databox orSync+Share).
  • Your electronically submitted application documents will be checked by the Habilitation Office. You will be informed about their completeness in a timely manner.
  • Applications will only be accepted if all documents listed on page 2 of the application for acceptance as a habilitation candidate (PDF, 176 KB) are submitted in the specified order (all documents in single copy and without plastic sleeves).
  • Important: Please do not print out the results of personal teaching evaluations and publications! Electronic submission is sufficient.

You can send the complete application for acceptance as a habilitation candidate:

  • send by post to: HAP-Büro, Dekanat Medizinische Fakultät Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Bavariaring 19, 80336 München (please divide your documents into several letters if one envelope is too thick for a regular mailbox slot; packages are often not delivered securely), or
  • drop them in the mailbox at the Dean's Office, to the right of the entrance at the garden gate (please divide your documents into several envelopes if one envelope is too thick for a regular mailbox slot), or
  • deliver them in person by appointment (phone: (089) 4400-58906, Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., email: habilitation@dek.med.uni-muenchen.de)

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.
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)

Review of your application and acceptance for habilitation

Once your documents have been received by the Dean's Office, a formal preliminary check for completeness will be carried out by the Dean's Office. If all documents are complete, they will be forwarded to one of the chairpersons of the four permanent habilitation committees.

Review by the habilitation committee:
The chair of the habilitation committee conducts a preliminary review of the content and advises the faculty council on whether to accept or reject the application.

Faculty Council decision:
The extended Faculty Council decides on acceptance for habilitation and the appointment of your academic mentors.
You will be informed of the result by the Dean's Office shortly after the meeting.

Here you will find an overview of all requirements that must be fulfilled in order to complete the habilitation.

Sending documents by postal mail:

Send by mail to: Habilitationen, Dekanat der Medizinischen Fakultät, Bavariaring 19, 80336 München
or drop it in the mailbox at the Dean's Office. The mailbox is to the right of the entrance at the garden gate. Please divide your documents into several envelopes if one envelope is too bulky for a regular letterbox slot.

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