Doctorate and habilitation – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Doctoral Degree and Habilitation

Obtaining a doctoral degree demonstrates your ability to conduct independent scholarly work. The habilitation serves as proof of the ability to carry out autonomous academic research. Upon successful completion of the doctorate, you are awarded the academic title of Doctor. Upon successful completion of the habilitation, you acquire the qualification to teach independently at university level (Venia Legendi).

Doctoral Degree

During your doctoral phase, you are usually employed as a research associate at the institutes of our faculty, where you also acquire professional expertise. During this period, you prepare a written dissertation on a selected topic. The doctoral programme concludes with an oral examination.

Doctoral Application Documents

Doctoral Procedure Process

Doctoral Degree Regulations

Confirmation of the Doctoral Degree

Doctoral Agreement

Doctoral Supervision Agreement

Cumulative Doctoral Dissertation

Template for the Dissertation Title Page

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Key deadlines for your doctoral studies

Questions and Further Support

Doctoral Research Topics and Supervision

If you have any questions regarding doctoral research topics or the assumption of doctoral supervision, please contact the professors directly at the respective institutes.
Administrative procedures for doctoral studies

If you have any questions regarding the administrative procedures, please feel free to contact the Doctoral and Habilitation Office.
Submission of Dissertations and Habilitations

Information on the submission of dissertations and habilitations can be found on the website of the Technical Information Library (Technische Informationsbibliothek).
General support for your doctoral project

Support for your doctoral project is also available at the Graduate Academy of Leibniz University Hannover.

Habilitation

Guidelines on the Habilitation Procedure

Notifications concerning habilitation proceedings, including, for example, admissions or openings, are recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Faculty Council of Mechanical Engineering. For the public lecture followed by the colloquium, the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering shall extend a written invitation to the habilitation candidate. All communications relating to matters of the habilitation procedure must invariably be addressed in writing to the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

When applying for a certificate of good conduct, a “certificate of good conduct for submission to an authority” must be requested. The purpose stated should be “habilitation”. On the date of initiation of the habilitation procedure, certificates of good conduct must not be older than twelve months. Responsibility for all matters concerning the publication of habilitation theses lies with the University Library (TIB/UB, Special Collections, guidelines on the submission of doctoral and habilitation theses).