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    At the Faculty of Sciences PhD students are awarded with the degree “Doktor der Naturwissenschaften” (Dr. rer. nat.).

    Structured graduate programs at the Faculty of Sciences:

    • Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT)
    • Graduate School Advanced Materials and Processes (GS AMP)
    • Graduate School Molecular Science (GSMS)
    • International Max Planck Research School for Optics and Imaging (IMPRS PL)

    • GRK 1161: Disperse Systems for Electronic Applications
    • GRK 1660: Key Signals of Adaptive Immune Response
    • GRK 1896: In-Situ Microscopy with Electrons, X-rays and Scanning Probes
    • GRK 1910: Medicinal Chemistry of Selective GPCR Ligands
    • GRK 1962: Dynamic Interactions at Biological Membranes – From Single Molecules to Tissue
    • GRK 2162: Neurodevelopment and CNS vulnerability
    • GRK 2339: Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits
    • GRK of SFB 643: Strategies of cellular immune intervention
    • GRK of SFB 796: Erlangen School of Molecular Communication
    • GRK of SFB 1181: Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation
    • GRK of SFB / Transregio 130: B cells: Immunity and Autoimmunity
    • GRK of SFB / Transregio 154: Mathematical Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation Using the Example of Gas Networks

    • i-Target: Immunotargeting of cancer
    • Measuring and Modelling Mountain Glaciers and Ice Caps in a Changing Climate (M³OCCA)
    • Receptor Dynamics: Emerging Paradigms for Novel Drugs
    • Physics Advanced

    • Emil Fischer Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Molecular Medicine (EFS)
    • Junior research group at the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF)
    • Anthropologie der Religion(en)

    Doctoral degree regulations

    In January 2013, FAU passed general degree regulations which are valid for doctoral degrees at the Faculty of Sciences, too.

    • General degree regulations (2/2019) (in German)
    • Faculty degree regulations (6/2017) (in German)

    Guidelines

    • Guidelines on doctoral degrees at the Faculty of Sciences (updated on Feb. 14th, 2025) (German version)

    Further downloads

    Form for the grading system

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    Irene Deger

    Office of Doctoral Affairs

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    Freyeslebenstraße 191058 Erlangen

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    • Email: promotion-nat@fau.de
    • Phone: +49 9131 85 – 26003
    Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
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    Universitätsstraße 40
    91054 Erlangen
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