Receiving a doctorate at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

You can complete the doctoral examination process at our faculty in the subjects of Chemistry, Geography, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Didactics of Geography and Didactics of Mathematics.

The faculty awards the academic degrees of Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.), Doktor-Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.) and Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.).

The doctoral examination process is subject to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences PhD Regulations, published in the Official Gazette of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt) no. 42/2018 on 11/07/2018.

Due to the pandemic situation, PhD procedures can currently only be executed in a limited way. See here for information on:

Doctoral procedures during the pandemic (26.10.2021)

Digital Defence (26.10.2021)

In-presence defence (26.10.2021)

• Admission to the doctoral examination process
• Completing the doctor’s thesis
• Extending the doctoral examination process
• Beginning and completing the doctoral examination process
• Forms, notes and additional information
• Doctoral subjects and specialisations

Physicists win Science's annual contest "Dance your PhD."

The Dance Your Ph.D. contest has been challenging scientists to explain their research through dance for 14 years now. This year the video of three atmospheric science graduate students at the University of Helsinki won the overall contest. Have fun watching their video and all the other winners in the categories Chemistry, Biology and Social Sciences. Maybe this inspires to you participate in the 14th annual contest next year? We would be delighted!

Members of the PhD Committee

Prof. Dr. Dirk Becherer (Chair of the PhD Committee, Department of Mathematics)

Prof. Dr. Tobias Kümmerle (Geography Department)

Prof. Dr. Lars Grunske (Department of Computer Science)

Prof. Dr. Christian Limberg (Department of Chemistry)

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kamps (Department of Physics)

Prof. Christoph Koch, PhD (Substitute member of the Committee, Department of Physics)