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 Promotion zum Doktor der Humanbiologie" (application of admission to the doctoral examination) in the Campus Portal and enter the final title of your thesis, then save!

You can then all forms pre-filled from your Campus Portal.

Submission of your dissertation

Please upload the following documents to the Campus Portal:

  • Before you can submit your dissertation in the Campus Portal, your doctoral supervision agreement must be uploaded and confirmed in your account.
  • You can upload your signed supervision agreement to your Campus Portal at any time after completing the registration process.
  • If you no longer have a copy of the agreement, please contact the respective colleague at the Doctoral Office.
  • Fill out the “Antrag auf Zulassung zur Promotion zum Doktor der Humanbiologie” 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.
  • Use either the German or the English version of the forms.
  • As soon as the uploaded agreement has been confirmed by an employee of the Doctoral Office, you can upload the final version of your dissertation in the Campus Portal in the section “Application for admission to the doctoral examination” together with the documents specified there.

Please upload the following documents to the Campus Portal:

  • Electronic version of the dissertation (PDF format, max. 10 Mb, reduce file size).
  • Affidavit with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  • Confirmation of congruency of the bound and electronic version (PDF format) of the dissertation with signature. Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  • Confirmation of co-authors (only required when submitting a cumulative dissertation). Please download the form from your Campus Portal in the “Publication” section, have them signed and upload them again.
  • Proof of at least two years of work under the supervision of a habilitated supervisor. Please download the form from your Campus Portal, sign it and upload it again.
  • Form "Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft". Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  • Certificate of exmatriculation (alternatively: certificate of study progress or matriculation certificate)
  • Declaration for external studies, if applicable
  • Statement on the “iThenticate” report (more information under “iThenticate - verification of text matches”)
  • Consent of the institution's director, if applicable (only if the data was collected at an external institution)
  • If applicable, ethical and legal clearance certificate
  • Official private certificate of good conduct (not older than 3 months)

Please submit the following original documents:

  1. Application for admission to doctoral studies (Antrag auf Zulassung zur Promotion zum Doktor der Humanbiologie). Please download the form from your Campus Portal.
  2. Printed version of the dissertation (one copy) DIN A 4 bound (adhesive binding, no ring binding!) in German or English including a German and 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 with signature.
    4. List of publications
  4. Doctoral supervision agreement with original signatures
  5. Consent of the institution management if the data was collected at an external institution
  6. Official private certificate of good conduct (not older than 3 months)
  7. complete logbook (all required agreements, proof of full-time research or equivalent work completed, training program completed)
  8. Notarized copy of the qualifying gedree (if only the certificate of passing the first section of the medical examination was available at the time of application)

Template:

Mandatory: Cover page for dissertations, if the data were collected at the LMU hospital or at an institute belonging to the Medical Faculty. (PDF, 986 KB)

Mandatory: Cover page for dissertations, if the data were collected outside of the LMU hospital or at an institute belonging to the Medical Faculty. (PDF, 734 KB) (for example, if the data were collegted at an MPI, Helmholtz-Center or at the TUM).

Optional: Formatting template for monographic dissertations (DOCX, 108 KB) (Dr. med., Dr. med. dent. or Dr. rer. biol. hum., new study regulations)

Optional: Format template for cumulative dissertations (DOCX, 109 KB) (Dr. med., Dr. med. dent. or Dr. rer. biol. hum., new study regulations)

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.

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