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
Elizaveta Fakirova
Speaker of the Doctoral Candidates GC LS
Strategy and Management of Landscape Development
Kenneth Kuba
Deputy Speaker of the Doctoral Candidates GC LS
Plant-Insect-Interactions
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
Events

Team of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences
Managing Director
Dr. Daniela Röder
daniela.roeder@tum.de
Doctoral Administration
Brigitte Stable
brigitte.stable@tum.de
Seminar Management
Denise Seidl
denise.seidl@tum.de

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