Who can supervise a doctorate?

The following members and affiliates of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences have the right to supervise doctoral projects:

• Professors
• Junior professors
• Associate professors
• Honorary professors
• Private lecturers
• (Junior) professors according to the Jülich model

The following groups of people can apply for the right to supervise doctorates

• Independent group leaders of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and cooperating scientific institutions (e.g. CECAD, local Max Planck Institutes) with application
• In individual cases, university lecturers from other faculties (approved by a department of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
  • Without application after subject-specific evaluation of the doctoral project: University lecturers from the Faculty of Medicine only in the doctoral subject of Biology and Computational Biology
• In individual cases, professors from other universities (if they are members of a cooperating graduate program of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
• In individual cases for co-supervision: Professors at universities of applied sciences (with agreement) and foreign universities (cotutelle agreement)

Doctoral subjects

As a rule, doctoral projects can only be supervised in one of the designated doctoral subjects. In justified cases, the Doctoral Committee may also allow supervision for another subject. A list of doctoral subjects can be found in the appendix of the current doctoral regulations.

 

Participation in graduate schools

Doctoral candidates are members of the Departmental Graduate Schools upon admission. They can leave, but then require a second supervisor who is a professor in the faculty.