Are you considering staying in academia after you finish studying and dedicating yourself to your own research project? If so, a doctorate might be the right decision for you.
Regardless of which subject you choose, you should know in advance which options you have for pursuing a doctorate at JGU:
If you would like to obtain a doctorate at JGU, you must register as a doctoral candidate via JOGU-StINe.
If you would also like to enroll as a doctoral student in addition to registering, please indicate this in your registration application. You can also enroll later. Consider whether enrollment makes sense for you or not.
Benefits of enrolling:
Detailed information on registration and enrollment, as well as step-by-step instructions, can be found here.
The traditional option: You complete your doctorate independently and individually and are supervised by a doctoral supervisor.
You complete your doctorate as part of a comprehensive structure at a graduate school or a graduate center, i.e., at an institutionalized university body.
JGU offers certain grants and continuing education measures for doctoral candidates at JGU.
In addition, the structured doctorate at a graduate school or graduate center is an option.
You can also obtain a binational doctorate through joint supervision at JGU and at another higher education institution outside Germany. You will then receive a doctoral degree awarded jointly by both universities.
Here is a breakdown for how to complete your doctorate. The individual steps will differ depending on the type of degree you previously obtained.
Promotionsordnung des Fachbereich 08 – Physik, Mathematik und Informatik
Doctoral degree regulations of Faculty 08 – Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science
Ordnung für die Verleihung des akademischen Grades eines “Doctor rerum naturalium” (Dr. rer. nat.) der Fachbereiche 08, 09, 10 und der Universitätsmedizin (German)
Regulations for attaining the academic degreee of “Doctor rerum naturalium” (Dr. rer. nat.) of the departments 08, 09, 10 and university medicine (English)
You can easily make your doctoral dissertation freely available via the digital publication service of the university library.
Are you a PhD student at Faculty 08? Are you new and would like to network with other PhDs from our institutes or across the university? Have you noticed something that can be improved in our faculty? Do you have concerns and don’t know who to contact? Would you like to get involved for the PhDs in the faculty? Want to learn more about us and our work?
Then come and visit us or write an e-mail! We are your doctoral representatives at Faculty 08. We represent your interests in the faculty and across the university.
You can participate at the faculty level in our PhD Faculty RepresentatiVs 08 (PFaV08).
Hey, my name is Daniela Fetzer, and I am completing my doctorate in Physics. Since 2023, I have been working in the group of Prof. Dr. Michael Wurm on the construction of a new experiment in the Center for Fundamental Physics here in Mainz.
As David’s successor in the DoV, I am only joining for the last half year of the current period. Nonetheless, I am happy to now be a part of the PhD representatives and will try my best to actively contribute to the tasks at hand.
Contact: Staudingerweg 7, Room 05-531
E-mail: PhDs08@uni-mainz.de
My name is Xenia Heilmann and I have been working on my doctorate at the Institute of Computer Science since October 2022. I am working on methods and ideas on how to make artificial intelligence, more specifically machine learning algorithms, fairer and more private.
I am happy to be part of the current DoV and hope to promote and strengthen networking, exchange, and communication between doctoral candidates – both with each other in the faculty and across faculties.
Contact: Staudingerweg 9, 03-321
E-mail: PhDs08@uni-mainz.de
