Useful information
Links to regulations, procedures and further useful information for your PhD
A detailed overview of the most important regulations, procedures and resources for your PhD is given in the yearly PhD Information event ("How to PhD"). Here you will find a short summary of the same links shown in the event. This is not a complete list! You can also find many of the links shown below and some more on the list of further offers for doctoral candidates of the Graduate Center (GraCe).
If you have any questions or comments do not hesitate to contact us via mail phd[at]mathphys.uni-freiburg.de or in person!
PhD regulations
- Academic law (German) (with § 38 being the relevant paragraph for the PhD)
- Doctoral degree regulations (English) (This is a courtesy translation, only the german version of the regulations (Promotionsordnung) is legally binding)
- Rules of procedure of the PhD convent (German)
Procedures
- General information from the Institute of Physics
- General information from the Institute of Mathematics
In case of problems
- You can contact us or the persons of trust (currently Prof. Nadine Große and apl. Prof. Thomas Filk) (everything will be handled confidentially)
- GraCe Advising and Counseling
- Ombudsstelle
- For matriculated students: Psychological counseling of the SWFR
- For employees: Emergency assistance
- protect for protection against discrimination and abuse of power
For international students
- Welcome Service
- The Sprachlehrinstitut (SLI) is a for-profit organisation of the University of Freiburg. They offer many language courses, among them German courses at all levels.
Additional courses and mentoring
- GraCe courses
- University Sport Services for cheap sport courses for students and employees
- AdvanceMent Mentoring for career planning
- Kite (for women only)
Further documents and links
- The Joint Working Committee of the Doctoral Candidate Councils (GAA)
- Guidelines for good supervision
- Good research practice
- Policy on genAI of the university
- Data protection compliant access to LLM via HAWKI
- Stop-gap funding for completion of doctorate for members of a DFG research training group
- FreiDok