Please send approx. 10 days before you plan to submit your thesis an email with the following information to the Doctoral Degree Office:

• final title of your thesis
• names and institutions/affiliations of your reviewers 
• type of your thesis (monograph / cumulative thesis)
  

Special field of Biology + Pharmacy to Ms. Kerstin Reinsberg: prom1@bcp.fu-berlin.de

Special field of Chemistry + Biochemistry to Ms. Lydia Alnajjar: prom2@bcp.fu-berlin.de

Please submit the thesis with all documents electronically in advance (PDF-file) by e-mail - either as an attachment or by using the FU-Box -  the electronic sending of the dissertation is considered as the submission date - and then send us the original forms (signed by hand with a ballpoint pen) as well as a printed and bound version of your thesis (no spiral or ring binding) by post to the address of the Doctoral Degree Office. Alternatively, you can drop the documents in the mailbox in front of our office.

• In the case of a monograph, publications (related to the dissertation) must be submitted separately as off-prints/prints, but NOT as part of the dissertation.
• In the case of a cumulative thesis, the publications including possibly existing supporting information/supplements will be included as part of the thesis.

Please send us the following documents when submitting your dissertation:

- The forms must be signed by hand and scanned and send to the Doctoral Office both electronically and as originals -

• One hardbound copy of the thesis
  Note: no spiral or ring binding

• An electronic version of the thesis (as pdf-file)

• Copy of the identity card or passport

• Form: Declaration of consent for the electronic forwarding/distribution

• Form: Submission of the thesis to the doctoral board

• Form: Declaration of authenticity

• Form: Confirmation for submission of a monograph
  For a monograph: a separate print + pdf file of possible publication/s written in context with the thesis - Note: please do not imbed in the thesis

OR

• Form: Confirmation for submission of a cumulative thesis
  For a cumulative thesis according to the new doctoral regulations: list (pdf file) of already accepted publications that are part of the thesis, stating the titles and any DOI links or confirmation of acceptance of the manuscripts by the publishing house

• Form: Information on the reviewers
  Note: your supervisor is your 1^st reviewer

• Form: Declaration of confidentiality
  (for reviewers not holding a permanent professorship of FU Berlin)

• Form: Confirmation of primary data retention

• Form: Statistical survey

If there are any proposals regarding the composition of the committee, this must be communicated by the supervisor to the doctoral office by e-mail before you submit your dissertation, so that the docotral board can take this into account accordingly. Once the dissertation has been submitted, it can no longer be considered.

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