Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Life Sciences

 

The Graduate Centre Life Sciences is the central service facility for all current and prospective doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Life Sciences. It offers information on the admission to doctoral studies, further education, networking and counselling during the doctoral study period, as well as support for all doctoral students at the end of their doctoral degree programme.

The Graduate Centre Life Sciences is the contact point for all current and prospective doctoral candidates at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Agricultural Science, Biology, Biophysics, Horticultural Science and Psychology.

The further education courses offered by the Graduate Centre Life Sciences are primarily targeted at doctoral candidates who are not enrolled in a structured doctoral degree programme. At the same time, the Graduate Centre is the networking point for all doctoral degree programmes and their doctoral candidates at our Faculty. In this way, the Graduate Centre Life Sciences promotes networking between all doctoral candidates at the Faculty of Life Sciences.

General information:

Please contact the staff of the doctoral office primarily by e-mail and send forms and applications in advance as a scan (in one PDF).

If you apply for the opening of your doctoral procedure, please submit your thesis and the related documents separately in one PDF each. Then submit the printed copies and the original documents as soon as possible.

We will only send documents such as admission letters and certificates by post or e-mail.

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PLEASE NOTE:

The new doctoral degree regulations of our faculty came into force on 11 October 2022. § 22 regulates the validity of all previous regulations.

If you apply for the initiation of your doctoral degree procedure by 10 October 2023, you can do so according to the regulations under which you were admitted or choose the new regulations.

If you apply for the initiation of your doctoral degree procedure after 10 October 2023, you will be awarded your doctorate according to the new doctoral degree regulations. If you prefer to be awarded your doctorate under the doctoral degree regulations under which you were admitted instead, you have to inform the Doctoral Degree Board of the Faculty in writing by 10 October 2023 (an e-mail will suffice).

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