Submission of your dissertation

Your thesis is submitted electronically via the Campus Portal and in printed form to the Doctoral Office. Once the electronic and printed versions, as well as all documents, have been submitted, the assessment of your thesis begins.

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You can download all the necessary forms pre-filled from the Campus Portal:

To submit, first fill out the “Antrag auf Zulassung zur Doktorprüfung (Dr. rer. nat.)” in the Campus Portal and enter the final title of your thesis, then save!
You can then download all the pre-filled forms from your Campus Portal.

Submitting your dissertation

The following documents must also be included in your dissertation (printed and electronic version):

  • Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal. First enter the title of your thesis in the Campus Portal under “Antrag auf Zulassung zur Doktorprüfung (Dr. rer. nat.)” and save. You can then download the pre-filled form.
  • Confirmation of congruency of the bound and electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal. First enter the title of your thesis in the Campus Portal under “Antrag auf Zulassung zur Doktorprüfung (Dr. rer. nat.)” and save. You can then download the pre-filled form.
  • Curriculum vitae
  • List of publications

  • Complete the “Antrag auf Zulassung zur Doktorprüfung (Dr. rer. nat.)” section in the Campus Portal and enter the final title of your thesis, then save!
  • You can now download all pre-filled forms from your Campus Portal.

Please upload the following documents to the Campus Portal:

  1. Electronic version of the dissertation (PDF format, max. 10 Mb, reduce file size), incl. signed affidavit, declaration of compliance, CV and list of publications.
  2. Confirmation of congruency of the bound and the electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  3. Proof of at least two years of work under the supervision of a habilitated supervisor who holds a doctorate in the natural sciences. Please download the form from your Campus Portal, sign it and upload it again.
  4. Form “Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft”. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  5. Declaration for external studies, if applicable
  6. Statement on the “iThenticate” report (more information under “Plagiarism check”)
  7. Confirmation of co-authors (only required if submitting a cumulative dissertation). Please download the forms from your Campus Portal account under “Publications”, have them signed and upload them there again.

  1. Antrag auf Zulassung zur Doktorprüfung (Dr. rer. nat.). Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  2. One printed version of the dissertation, DIN A 4, bound (adhesive binding, no ring binding!) in German or English incl. a German and an English summary
  3. The following documents must be included in the dissertation (printed and electronic version):
    1. Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
    2. Confirmation of congruency of the bound and electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
    3. Curriculum vitae
    4. List of publications
  4. Supervision Agreement with original signatures (if not already on filed in the doctoral office)

Send by post to: Doctoral Office, Promotionsbüro, 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.

The submission of your thesis is considered complete when both the electronic version and the printed version have been received by the doctoral office. You do not need to submit your dissertation on a USB stick or DVD.

More questions?

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