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Doctorate at the TUM School of Life Sciences

Doctoral candidates at TUM work on challenging scientific issues and are supervised by renowned researchers. The TUM Graduate School promotes an environment in which scientific knowledge and professional qualification are optimally intertwined. It offers all doctoral students at TUM an attractive, doctorate-accompanying advanced training program.

Graduate Center of Life Sciences 

The Graduate Center of Life Sciences (GC LS) is an institution of the TUM Graduate School and at the same time part of the TUM School of Life Sciences. In order to provide the best possible support for doctoral students, the Graduate Center of Life Sciences designs the framework of the TUM Graduate School in a needs-oriented manner, taking local requirements into account.

Start your Doctorate

How to start a doctorate?

During your Doctorate

Doing a doctorate in Weihenstephan

Complete your Doctorate

Successful completion of a doctorate

General information on starting a doctorate at TUM can be found on the Website of the TUM Graduate School  and in the presentation: Doing your Doctorate at TUM & TUM Graduate School

Please also note the important information at "Welcome Office".

(only with TUM-Login possible, Alternatively, please contact gc(at)ls.tum.de)  

Further important information for guest doctorates as well as a checklist for international guest doctorates can be found at the Welcome Office of the TUM Graduate School.

Ayla Schröder
Spokesperson of doctoral candidates GC LS
Computational Mass Spectrometry 

Günther Gaßner
deputy Spokesperson of doctoral candidates GC LS
Brewing and Beverage Technology

Contact: rep.gc(at)ls.tum.de


Supervisory Award

The TUM Graduate School and the Graduate Center of Life Sciences support supervisors with various information and offers.

All lecturers/refernts/instructors offering an event for doctoral candidates can count this extracurricular teaching as teaching load, insofar the event serves to convey learning content. The instruction of the scientific way of working and supervision, also in group form, cannot be recognized for the teaching load. Further information on this and on funding of events can be found in the Wiki of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences.

List of courses 2025

January
13.01.2025Basic R Course in the Life Sciences
20.01.2025Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis
22.01.2025Advanced Mass Spectrometry
30.01.2025Forschungsdatenmanagement Basics
31.01.2025Kompaktkurs Literaturrecherche für die Dissertation
February
12.02.2025Good Scientific Practice
March
10.03.2025Python Beginner
10.03.2025Metabolomics - An Introduction
17.03.2025Machine learning with R in the Life Sciences
26.03.2025Research Data Management Basics
April
28.04.2025Python Advanced
30.04.2025Advanced Mass Spectrometry
May
06.05.2025Using R for regression analysis
07.05.2025Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis
07.05.2025Wissenschaftliches Schreiben für Einsteiger
June
23.06.2025Good Scientific Practice
30.06.2025Basic R Course in the Life Sciences
July
02.07.2025Advanced Mass Spectrometry
August
No courses 
September
25.09.2025Python Beginner
October
06.10.2025Advanced R Course in the Life Sciences - Additive Modelle
15.10.2025Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis
22.10.2025Advanced Mass Spectrometry
November
10.11.2025Python Advanced
27.11.2025Good Scientific Practice
December
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Welcome To My Lab

Welcome To My Lab - Ep. 1 with Christina Dollinger

More Info

 Gain insights into the doctoral journey at the Technical University of Munich in our latest video series featuring TUM doctoral candidates. 

Our doctoral candidates at the Science Slam

Science Slam of the Freising research institutions
Doctoral students at the School's internal Science Slam preliminary round of the Freising research institutions (from left to right): Korbinian Tartler, Simone Göppert, Veronika Schlosser, Ulrike Vogt.

Events

Events | Junior Scientists

Online Course: Onboarding for New Teaching Staff

Events | Jobs & Career | Junior Scientists

GeneNovate entrepreneurship program in Munich

Events | Campus | Research | Junior Scientists

TUM@Freising: Our planet's soils - a precious and highly diverse resource

Events | Junior Scientists

Seminar Series: Advanced Mass Spectrometry

Team of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences
from right: Dr. Daniela Röder, Brigitte Stable, Denise Seidl

Team of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences

Managing Director
Dr. Daniela Röder
daniela.roeder(at)tum.de
Appointments by arrangement

Doctoral Administration
Brigitte Stable
brigitte.stable(at)tum.de
Mo and Tue, 9 am to 12 pm

Seminar Management
Denise Seidl
denise.seidl(at)tum.de
Appointments by arrangement

 

Das Graduate Center of Life Sciences in Weihenstephan
Entrance of the Graduate Center of Life Sciences

Graduate Center of Life Sciences

TUM School of Life Sciences
Graduate Center of Life Sciences
Alte Akademie 8a, 85354 Freising

Tel. +49 8161 71 2968
gc(at)ls.tum.de

Appointments by arrangement

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