Getting started: approval of your PhD project
The first step toward a successful PhD is to get your thesis project approved of. Alas, this involves quite a bit of paperwork and brainstorming with your supervisor, to be done in the first months.
Download and complete the following forms:
Important: ALL your thesis committee members (CMs) must sign on the exposé front page.
| Who is eligible for CM? Your PhD supervisor and scientists who are acknowledged experts on the topic of your thesis project. CMs must be tenured (“habilitiert”) or independent group leaders having their own funds. The thesis committee provides support and guidance for your project by accompanying it from the initial presentation, through annual work progress presentations, to the final thesis defence. Preferably, at least one of the CMs should be either Doctoral Advisor of Molecular Biology (check http://doktorat.univie.ac.at/betreuerinnen/doktoratsbeiraete/doktoratsbeiraete-spl-47/ for an updated list of Doctoral Advisors) or DSPL (Head of the Doctoral Study Program). You are strongly encouraged to include additional external CMs. The selection of CMs has to be approved by the DSPL prior to your thesis project presentation. |
Last, but not least, write your research proposal ("Exposé"). We expect 4-5 pages of text (introduction, goals, background, work plan, methods, alternative approaches, key references).
Complete all forms, collect necessary signatures and leave the complete set including a hard copy of the research proposal with Gerlinde Aschauer (MFPL main building, room 5118). Please do not staple!
In addition, a pdf-file should be sent to gerlinde.aschauer@univie.ac.at (file name: surname_first name_student registration number_expose.pdf).
The forms are also available in German:
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here to view a sample of what a complete set of forms should look like.
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