Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Geography Department

Receiving a PhD at the Geography Department

 

The procedure for receiving a PhD at the Geography Department is based on the currently valid regulations of the doctoral examination process at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:

  • Currently valid regulations:

Promotionsordnung der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, (English version here) published in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Official Gazette No. 42/2018 on 11/07/2018 (Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Nr. 42/2018 vom 11.07.2018).

 

  • Expired regulations (These Regulations are only valid for already accepted doctoral students):

Promotionsordnung der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät (English version here), published in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Official Gazette No. 126/2014 on 17/11/2014 (Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Nr. 126/2014 vom 18.11.2014).

Promotionsordnung der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät II, published in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Official Gazette No. 34/2006 on 03/08/2006 (Amtliches Mitteilungsblatt der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Nr. 34 vom 03.08.2006).

 

Please, find detailed information about assessment, beginning and completing, forms etc. concerning the doctoral examination process at the website of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences under Doctoral Examination Process.

 

 

Specific Regulations concerning the doctoral examination process at the Geography Department:

  • Admission

At the Geography Department, the PhD candidate and the supervisor sign a doctoral supervision agreement including an exposé, a time schedule, the application for admission and the generally requested documents (see here). All these documents have to be presented to the PhD committee of the Geography Department.

Supervision agreement- German

Betreuungsvereinbarung - English

  • Specific regulations for doctoral studies at the Geography Department (incl. cumulative dissertations)

Here you will find the specific additional remarks for the examination process of cumulative doctoral theses at the Geography Department. (A new German and English version is coming out soon.)

 

Contact at the Geography Department:

Responsable for the administration of doctoral processes at the Department

Barbara Kaun

Site: Rudower Chaussee 16,
12489 Berlin, room no. 5'110

Postal address: Unter den Linden 6,
10099 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 2093-6815

Fax: +49 30 2093-6856

E-Mail: b.kaun(at)geo.hu-berlin.de

 

Representation of PhD students at the Geography Department
  • The representation of PhD students at Geography Department stands in for the interests of the PhD students at our Department.
  • It feels responsible for networking of the PhD candidates among each other, for example at regular tables or meetings.
  • It attends/ takes care of an email-list for our PhD candidates. If you as PhD candidate at the Geography Department want to become a member of the list, please, inscribe yourself here.
  • Contacts are:

Asunción Semper Pascual
Anne-Kathleen Malchow
Sam Cooper

 

Ombudswoman/Ombudsman
For the supervisors:

Prof. Dr. Suntje Schmidt (Vertreter: Prof. Dr. Jonas Østergaard Nielsen)

For the PhD students:

Teresa Rita de Marzo (Vertreter: Valentin Domann)