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Ph.D. Thesis Submission

Once all requirements within the framework of the target agreement have been fulfilled, the supervisors can initiate the scientific assessment of the Ph.D. thesis. You need to submit all relevant documents to the Ph.D. program coordination, who in turn will forward all documents to the MMRS after reviewing them for completeness. We recommend that you to read our finalization handbook carefully to know all the important steps for submitting your thesis and the subsequent process.

Documents that need to be submitted to the Ph.D. program coordination:

  • Electronic version of your thesis in PDF format 
The thesis must be paginated and contain a table of contents, as well as a list of figures, tables and references. Furthermore, the thesis must contain a detailed summary, the signed affidavit, your CV and a list of all your scientific publications. There are two styles of writing a Ph.D. thesis- monographic or cumulative. We provide you with the two style templates that you can use to write your dissertation. 


Additionally, we also provide you with two different cover pages to use for your dissertation: 

- cover page for data collected internally (within the medical faculty or LMU Hospital)

- cover page for data collected externally (a different institute)

The Ph.D. program coordination will submit one digital copy of your thesis to the MMRS, and 2 physical copies to the dissertation library after a successful defense.


  • Confirmation of all co-authors 
If you are writing a cumulative dissertation, the contribution of all co-authors to the publications needs to be indicated. A separate form needs to be submitted for each article. To be able to use a paper for a cumulative dissertation it has to be published in a journal, which is listed among the top 80% in its field. This is one of the prerequisites that has to be fulfilled to permit the use of a paper in a cumulative thesis. Please use this guide to determine the ranking of a journal. In addition and most importantly, you have to have at least 2 publications of which at least one is a first-author publication. Both have to be at least accepted for publication. For further detailed information about the cumulative thesis, please follow this link


  • iThenticate report (plagiarism check) 
As of October 2016, all theses must be checked for potential plagiarism before being submitted to the MMRS. The thesis will need to be submitted to MMRS by the program coordination - after the check, the medical faculty will upload the results in the account of your first LMU supervisor. Your thesis can be checked twice, however, the version last reviewed must match the submitted thesis version. If the iThenticate verification report gives no reason to expect plagiarism, the supervisor needs to submit the filled and signed iThenticate Statement Form directly to the Ph.D. program coordination. For more information on the plagiarism software and the procedure at the faculty, please click here. Furthermore, to assist in the preparation of a dissertation and to prevent plagiarism, the Faculty of Medicine provides a citation guide.


  • Supervisor Consent Form 

The Supervisor Consent Form needs to be signed by all supervisors (local and LMU) of the Ph.D. candidate


  • Application for Admission to the Ph.D. Examination Form

This form needs to be filled in and signed by the Ph.D. candidate. Please note that the “Supervisor Declaration for Admission to the Oral Defense” needs to be filled in and signed by the habilitated LMU supervisor.


  • Declaration for the “Münchner Universitätsgesellschaft”


  • Supervision and Target Agreement

If you have not yet submitted the supervision and target agreement to the Ph.D. program coordination, you must submit the documents now. Original and digital signatures are now accepted by the MMRS. The Ph.D. program coordination can only submit the copies of your thesis to the MMRS if the supervision and target agreement are also ready for submission to the MMRS.

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