Manual

Your PhD Thesis Journey

Most of the following information is from the Promotionsordnung.

  1. Get accepted as a PhD student at FB3 (form "Annahme als Doktorand"). This requires an Exposé, ideally done early in your PhD.
  2. Write your thesis
  3. Find a date for your PhD Colloquium. Book a room.
  4. Find a second reviewer (see Promotionsordnung for criteria for reviewers). The first reviewer is your advisor (this might change with the new Promotionsordnung).
  5. Put together a Prüfungsausschuss: two professors/post-docs and two unversity staff/students (at least one student is required). The reviewers are also part of the Prüfungsausschuss.
  6. Print three copies of your thesis. I recommend one-sided and soft-cover (cost me around 140€ for ~180 pages).
  7. Hand in the three copies to the "Geschäftsstelle für Promotionen" (currently Silke Völkers).
  8. Send the digital version of your thesis to the reviewers.
  9. The reviewers now have 6 weeks to send their reviews to the Geschäftsstelle für Promotionen.
  10. When the reviews arrive, they are published for 14 days at FB3.
  11. Plan a buffer of three weeks after you receive the reviews until the acceptance for colloquium ("Zulassung zum Kolloquium") through the Promotionsausschuss.
  12. Rock your colloquium.

The Template

Feel free to use my LaTeX code. I used the Cambridge Engineering PhD Template from Overleaf. However, I made some changes:

I suggest you use the Overleaf Pro account, since compiling can take more than a minute and will not work with the free account.


Revision #6
Created 14 February 2022 10:42:03 by Daniel Diethei
Updated 15 February 2022 10:57:23 by Daniel Diethei