Doctoral Thesis

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» Rules and Requirements

The thesis registration shall be done latest the end of the first semester!

It is strongly recommended to find a supervisors for the doctoral thesis prior to admission to studies! Please see relevant supervisors evaluated in the thematic programs.

If the supervisor is not evaluated as a supervisor within the chosen thematic program please ask the supervisor to contact the relevant program coordinator prior to the registration of the doctoral thesis in order to initiate an evaluation procedure.

The two further members of your thesis committee may be suggested to the program coordinator. They do not have to be evaluated within the thematic program but have to hold the "venia docendi" (Doz./Prof.). At least one of the two further members must not belong to the organizational unit of the supervisor.

Ideal case (but not a "must" in N790):
.) The doctoral thesis should be associated with a peer-reviewed and funded research project. The doctorand could be financially supported (employed) via this project. Project and possible support/employment please discuss with the supervisor.
.) At least one first-author paper in the course of the thesis project should be published in a peer-reviewed journal.


Information about registration << Please read first !!
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Non-disclosure agreement
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Registration form
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User form for the thesis proposal
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Information about compilation
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User form for the progress report meetings of the thesis committee
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The thesis has to be submitted as PdF/A-file at the end of your studies.
Therefore please notice the
>> Guidelines for PdF/A - Conversion
already at the beginning of your writing.


Write one English and one German abstract (about 1 A4 page each) and integrate it into your thesis (must be part of the table of contents).
Add your list of publications and your curriculum vitae at the end of your thesis.
Pay special attention to the cover page of your thesis. To be definitely included:
.) Doctoral Thesis at the Medical University of Vienna for obtaining the "Dr.scient.med."-Degree,
.) title of the doctoral thesis (please do not use abbreviations),
.) your name as the author,
.) supervisor (including the institute/center/department),
.) place and date of compilation and submission
.) >> see template for the cover page

Suggestion for formatting: Times New Roman resp. Arial, 12pt; line spacing: 1,5 lines; margin: 2-3 cmpages may be imprinted one-sided or duplex; your name shall be on the spine of the thesis books


There will be a plagiarism check after submission of the completed thesis at the end of your studies.
Please see  >> info handout in German and English.


See online doctoral theses for your info under "Alumni".


Cumulative doctoral thesis:
The compilation of a cumulative doctoral thesis (using publications) is possible.

Please note that the work has to be submitted formally as doctoral thesis, joint cover page, joint abstracts (German and English), joint introduction and joint discussion are a minimum requirement! The joint introduction and joint discussion shall be at least 50% of the total length of the doctoral thesis.

You should concentrate on the main theme (where e.g. the first-author publication will be published), possible further themes should be cited as additional outcomes/projects. Overmore there should be cited which experiments are carried out by the doctorand. Even better it is to list up the contributions of the co-authors.

Some revievers, however, are sensitive to such "collected editions" and sometimes grade worser.

>>Submission of the completed doctoral thesis