Doctorates
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Your route to a doctoral degree
— an overview

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences awards the academic degree of Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.)

Where do you need to start?

You will need to contact the relevant people in the Doctoral Office (see below for details) in order to register for doctoral studies and for the doctoral examination procedure, which is a necessary subsequent step. Please see our detailed guidelines on the topic for more information.

Did you know...?

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Prof. Dr. Peter Scholze, who earned his doctorate at the University of Bonn, is awarded the Fields Medal. © Ole Lentfer/Universität Bonn
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Dr. Zlata Fedorova is awarded the 2023 Doctoral Prize by the Foundation for Physics & Astronomy. © Meike Böschemeyer/Universität Bonn
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Prof. Dr. Angkana Rüland, who earned her doctorate at the University of Bonn, is the recipient of the 2024 Leibniz Prize. © Gregor Hübl / Universität Bonn
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Prof. Dr. Elvira Mass, who completed her doctorate at LIMES (University of Bonn), is the recipient of the 2021 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award. © Barbara Frommann / Universität Bonn

Due to staff shortages, there are currently longer processing times.

N.B.:

  • You can submit documents to the Doctoral Office in several ways:
    • Send electronically via E-Mail  promotion.mnf@uni-bonn.de (strongly encouraged!)​
    • Put it in the mailbox yourself (at Wegelerstr. 10, on the left-hand side next to the front door. Don’t hand in your doctoral thesis in this way!)
    • Mail it in (send us your documents via inhouse or standard mail)
    • Make a one-to-one appointment with your contact (i.e. simply hand in your documents to us in person)

It can be hard to contact the Doctoral Office by phone, so you are welcome to email us.

Contact

Please note:
The doctoral office is closed from December 23, 2024 to January 1, 2025

You can find your contact person in the Doctoral Office with the help of the first letter of your family name.

Jorg Wenniges

+49 228 73 2232

Familienname A-F

0.012

Wegelerstraße 10

53115

N. N.

Familienname G-O

Karina Limbach

+49 228 73 68741

Familienname P-Z

0.013

Wegelerstraße 10

53115 Bonn

Links for more information

Doctoral guidelines

Here you can find important information about studying for a doctorate in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Downloads

The doctoral degree regulations, all application forms and annexes and important information on doctoral studies at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences can be found here.

Conflict mediation

Details of the confidential advice available to doctoral students are given here.