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Depending on the focus of the dissertation, it is possible to complete a doctorate at the Department of Computing Science with the title Dr. rer.nat. or Dr.-Ing.

The support of doctoral candidates and quality assurance of the resulting dissertations is ensured in the Department by a structured doctoral funding programme. Information on the procedure can be found here: Doctorate at the DFI.

The Department is/was involved in the following doctoral programmes and research training groups:

• Graduate School OLTECH
• Research Training Group CAUSE
• Doctoral programme System Integration of Renewable Energies - SEE
• DFG Research Training Group SCARE
• Doctoral programme: Safe Automation of Maritime Systems - SAMS

Further information on doctoral programmes can be found here.

• Supervision agreement(docx)
• Application form for admission(docx)
• Additional data/documents in accordance with the Higher Education Statistics Act(docx, pdf)
• Application form for opening the procedure(docx)
• Sample title page submission(pdf)
• Sample form for printing authorisation(docx)

IMPORTANT NOTE regarding educational qualifications obtained outside the EU: Please submit a certificate evaluation with your application documents. All information on the certificate evaluation as well as the application form and the documents to be submitted for the respective country of origin of the qualification can be found in German and English at www.kmk.org/zeugnisbewertung.

The internal colloquium is a formal part of your PhD programme in the Department of Computing Science. Before submitting your thesis, you will give a 45-minute public presentation of the results you have achieved so far, followed by a question-and-answer session and a discussion with the audience.

Requirements:

• The colloquia always take place on Mondays at 4.00 pm / 4.15 pm in room OFFIS F02; this room is reserved for this purpose throughout the year. Should a different date be planned, you must organise a room yourself.
• For alternative dates, please ensure in advance that there are no clashes; ideally, avoid scheduling other meetings on Mondays, as the regular colloquium takes place on that day.
• Discuss possible dates with your supervisors and submit your request in good time via
• Three weeks in advance, please send an abstract (approx. ½–¾ of an A4 page as a copyable Word DOCX file – please do not simply send the text by email or in any other file format!), the title of the presentation, the language of the presentation and the name of your supervisor to . If submitted late, the session cannot take place.
• A draft of the invitation will be sent to you in advance for approval.
• If the presentation is to be held in a hybrid format or exclusively online, please ensure that you set up a separate BBB room and provide the link.
• In addition, the outline, CV and list of publications must be sent to the other professors via your supervisor (or their Office) approximately 14 days in advance.

• List of doctorates completed in the Department of Computing Science