Doctorate at the Faculty of Psychology

You would like to do a doctorate at the Faculty of Psychology or have completed your dissertation and would like to submit an application to open the doctoral procedure?

You can find detailed information about the requirements, regulations and forms on the page "Important documents", as well as on the pages of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

For detailed information on admission as a doctoral candidate and also on the opening of the doctoral procedure, please also feel free to use the advisory service of the Doctoral Office of the Faculty of Psychology - contact person: Kathrin Binye.

Legal notice:
In addition to the doctoral regulations, doctoral candidates of the Faculty of Psychology are requested to observe the procedural guidelines for doctoral studies at the Faculty of Psychology and the information on dissertations. If in a doctoral procedure the dissertation is to be reviewed by an academic staff member, an application with justification is required for this.

As of 1.6.2021, the procedural guideline for the implementation of the GSP statutes in doctoral theses at the Faculty of Psychology will come into force. Please refer to it before submitting admission and opening applications. Special attention is drawn to the following addition to the doctoral regulations:

• Two supervisors for the doctoral project are required for acceptance as a doctoral candidate.
• Doctoral candidates are required to provide evidence of attendance at a minimum one-day course in good scientific practice to open the process.
• The dissertation must be evaluated by an external reviewer. To review the criteria for external reviewers, please use this form.

Information about the PsyDoc doctoral student initiative can be found here.

Information about the Graduate School 2323 (CPPS) can be found here.

Information about the Graduate School CRC 940 can be found here.