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Before or when you have confirmed a supervisor for your doctoral project or have secured an employment contract, contact the steering board head of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (Dr. phil.) program, Prof. Felix Ehrlenspiel (book a slot at https://doodle.com/mm/felixehrlenspiel/sprechstunde) for further assistance, advice and support. He will assist you with finding a mentor and the phrasing and content in the supervision agreement.

Afterwards conclude a supervision agreement (https://www.sg.tum.de/en/sg/research/doctorate/downloads/) with your supervisors and your mentor. 
 

The application for the registration as doctoral candidate (entry into the doctoral candidacy list) is submitted online via the DocGS platform https://www.docgs.tum.de/.

Choose Dr. phil. as doctoral degree.

(To apply, you will need a completed, signed supervision agreement.)

 

Submit the following documents physical documents to 

Technische Universität München
TUM School of Medicine and Health
Graduate Center of Medicine and Health
Ina Brüngel
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62
80992 München | Germany

  • Printout of the application that you submitted via docgs
  • Supervision Agreement with signatures of doctoral candidate, both supervisors, mentor(s)
  • Exposé of the doctoral project signed by the supervisor
  • CV
  • An officially certified copy of your university transcript and university diploma [if not in German or English: also certified copies of certified translations]
  • Copy of an identification document (ID card, passport)
  • internal doctoral candidates (= at least 0,25 place of employment as research assistant at TUM or MRI): copy of the employment contract
  • external doctoral candidates:
    - Certificate from your employer or other proofs that you can devote 50% of your working time or 20 hours per week to your doctorate
    - Plan by you and your supervisor for integration into the academic environment of TUM (see downloads for information)

Please note that the application and supervision agreement must be signed in original/handwritten form at least by you and your first supervisor.

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