How+to+hand+in+PhD+thesis+in+Duisburg-Essen


 * 1) =To the policy of doing PhD in the faculty of Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen=
 * 2) =How to prepare PhD thesis (examples, recommendations, etc.)=
 * 3) ==Writing business letters==

To the policy of doing PhD in the faculty of Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Hi there,

I phoned two different people and have now all informations for handing in your PhD thesis in Duis/Essen.

Here is a link to their webpage [|DUE-webpage].

The first steps, signing in and all that stuff is all ready done, so check.

There are **old** and **new** rules. The main difference is the short summary, which has to be in German applying the new rules.

a) When the thesis is ready or close to that, we have to make a **pre-proposal** . You have to fill in your supervisor and the 2nd referee (probably Prof. Spohr) and sign it. After that send it by mail to Ms. Ciolek.

Universität Duisburg-Essen Dekanat Chemie Universitätsstr. 2 45141 Essen Gebäude S05 T02 B48
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As an answer you get your **head of your comitee**. This procedure can take about **2 months**.

There is **no deadline** after sending the pre-poposal (in principle, you can hand in your thesis 2 years after handing in your pre-poposal).

b) You now can fill in the head of the comitee into your thesis (see attached template) and send 4 copies of it to Duis/Essen together with the **proposal for examination**.

The part with "Tag der Disputation" (=date of examnination) has to be left blank. You can fill this in later.

You have to send an additional copy to every referee. (so you need 6 copies total).

Your package to Ms. Ciolek should contain:
 * 4 hard copies of your thesis
 * the proposal for examination (signed by you and Maxim)
 * an CV (I am not sure about this, but cannot hurt in any case)
 * a publication list
 * a short summary (half page long) (if new rules apply to you: if your thesis are in English, this summary has to be written in **German**)

The thesis has to contain:
 * an appropriate title page (see format below)
 * a 'Eidesstattliche Erklaerung", again see below
 * a short summary (half page long) (if new rules apply to you: if your thesis are in English, this summary has to be written in **German**)
 * a CV
 * a publication list (may also attended conferences etc.)

c) You have to wait till you get your date of examination. You will have to make a 20 min presentation. Afterwards the comitee will ask questions about the project and chemistry in general. If you do not mind, the audience is allowed to ask questions, too.

d) You have to give 4 copies of your thesis and a electronic version to the library. You could use the 4 you send at first to the comitee, for by this time you should got them back. In addition, a Din5 version (half the size) has to hand in to them.

Some additional documents:
Here i the official document with some translations.

To the format of the thesis.

The format is in principle **FREE**. It should be scientific of course, but thats it.

Nevertheless, there are some things which should be included:


 * an appropriate title page (see format)
 * a 'Eidesstattliche Erklaerung", you sign, that you did this work by your own and marked every source you used and never tried to get your PhD before
 * a short summary (half page long) (if new rules apply to you: if your thesis are in English, this summary has to be written in **German**)
 * a CV
 * a publication list (may also attended conferences etc.)

e) After the supervisors rate your work, you will be notified. You now can make a date for your examination. This consists of a 20min talk and questions (mostly by the supervisors).

If there are any questions left, please contact me.

Best Tom

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