According to § 3 Abs. 6 of PromO MN a dissertation must be prepared with the support of a scientific supervisor, who should be a lecturer or a professor at the School of Science; in exceptional cases this clause can be overseen.
In the former case, a doctoral committee reviews the correspondence to the doctoral study admission requirements at the beginning of the studies (admission to Doctoral Studies). Please also refer to § 3 of PromO MN “Voraussetzungen zur Zulassung für eine Promotion” (Doctoral study admission requirements).
The acceptance as a doctoral candidate is done online via Promovendus. Via Promovendus, a corresponding application document is created, which you print out and submit to the staff member of your respective faculty at the doctoral office or, if applicable, at IHI Zittau or DIGS-BB.
Please note that a supervision agreement is to be signed between the scientific supervisor and the doctoral student following a recommendation by the DFG and the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden. An Employment at the university or at an institute is not equivalent to acceptance as a doctoral student.
If the dissertation is written without the supervision of a lecturer at the Faculty, the applicant must submit their doctoral thesis plan in written form at least one year before the prescribed submission date to the doctoral committee, together with a declaration of readiness by an appointed lecturer at the Faculty for the preparation of a report (admission as doctoral student) and the fulfilment of the admission requirements pursuant to § 3 PromO MN.
Foreign applicants are asked to refer to the website of the Akademischen Auslandsamtes der TU Dresden (International Office at TU Dresden).
In case you would like to be enrolled as a doctoral student, please also fill in the form of the School of Science (Statement of the Department) and not the one of the International Office.