Doctoral candidates at TUM work on challenging scientific issues and are supervised by renowned researchers. The TUM Graduate School promotes an environment in which scientific knowledge and professional qualification are optimally intertwined. It offers all doctoral students at TUM an attractive, doctorate-accompanying advanced training program.
The Graduate Center of Life Sciences (GC LS) is an institution of the TUM Graduate School and at the same time part of the TUM School of Life Sciences. In order to provide the best possible support for doctoral students, the Graduate Center of Life Sciences designs the framework of the TUM Graduate School in a needs-oriented manner, taking local requirements into account.
General information on starting a doctorate at TUM can be found on the Website of the TUM Graduate School and in the presentation: Doing your Doctorate at TUM & TUM Graduate School
Please also note the important information at "Welcome Office".
- Am I eligible for a doctorate?
- How to find a supervisor for my doctorate?
- FAQ Doctorate at the Life Sciences
Kenneth Kuba
Spokesperson of doctoral candidates GC LS
Plant-Insect-Interactions
Elizaveta Fakirova Weber
deputy Spokesperson of doctoral candidates GC LS
Strategic Landscape Planning and Management
Alexandra Steuer
deputy Spokesperson of doctoral candidates GC LS
Leibniz Institute for Food System Biology at TUM
Contact: rep.gc@ls.tum.de
Further important information for guest doctorates as well as a checklist for international guest doctorates can be found at the Welcome Office of the TUM Graduate School.
The TUM Graduate School and the Graduate Center of Life Sciences support supervisors with various information and offers.
All lecturers/refernts/instructors offering an event for doctoral candidates can count this extracurricular teaching as teaching load, insofar the event serves to convey learning content. The instruction of the scientific way of working and supervision, also in group form, cannot be recognized for the teaching load. Further information on this and on funding of events can be found in the Wiki of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences.
- Doctoral Regulations of 23.08.2021 with effect from 01.10.2021
- Statute of the TUM-GS of 23.08.2021 (English version coming soon)
- Doctoral Regulations with effect from 01.01.2014 and Statute of the TUM-GS from 01.09.2013
- Doctoral Regulations of the TUM as amended by the 4th Amendment Statute of June 3, 2020 (no English version available)
- Regulations of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences of 25.01.2022
- Supervision Agreement of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences
- Fill-in-help for your supervision agreement
- Richtlinien für die Vergabe von Doktorgraden an der TUM LS
- Regulations for Dissertations at the TUM School of Life Sciences
January:
Start 15.01.2024: Basic R-Course in the Life Sciences
Start 17.01.2024: Forschungsdatenmanagement Basics
Start 31.01.2024: Advanced Mass Spectrometry
February:
Start 19.02.2024: Industrial Pharma Management
March:
Start 04.03.2024: Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und ihre Problemfelder im Forschungsalltag
Start 06.03.2024: Scientific Writing for Beginners
Start 11.03.2024: Python Beginner
Start 18.03.2024: Metabolomics - An Introduction
April:
Start 08.04.2024: Basic R-Course in the Life Sciences
Start 18.04.2024: Einreichen der Dissertation
Start 18.04.2024: Submitting the dissertation
Start 19.04.2024: Python Advanced
Start: 24.04.2024: Advanced Mass Spectrometry
May:
Start 06.05.2024: Good Scientific Practice
Start 08.05.2024: Introduction to R and Statistics in the Life Sciences - Complete Beginner Course
June:
Start 06.06.2024: Biotech Quality Manager
Start 10.06.2024: Advanced R-Course in the Life Sciences
Start 12.06.2024: Introduction to R and Statistics in the Life Sciences - Complete Beginner Course
Start: 26.06.2024: Advanced Mass Spectrometry
July:
Start 01.07.2024: Basic R-Course in the Life Sciences
Start 04.07.2024: Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und ihre Problemfelder im Forschungsalltag
August:
No courses
September:
Start 10.09.2024: Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Biotechnology
Start 11.09.2024: Scientific Writing for Beginners in the Life Sciences
Start 19.09.2024: GMP COMPLIANCE FOR VOLTAREN®
October:
Start 21.10.2024: Good Scientific Practice
Start 23.10.2024: Advanced Mass Spectrometry
November:
December:
Events

Team of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences
Managing Director
Dr. Daniela Röder
daniela.roeder@tum.de
Appointments by arrangement
Doctoral Administration
Brigitte Stable
brigitte.stable@tum.de
Mo and Tue, 9 am to 12 pm
Seminar Management
Denise Seidl
denise.seidl@tum.de
Appointments by arrangement

Graduate Center of Life Sciences
TUM School of Life Sciences
Graduate Center of Life Sciences
Alte Akademie 8a, 85354 Freising
Tel. +49 8161 71 2968
gc@ls.tum.de
Appointments by arrangement