Application for a Postdoctoral Qualification

In accordance with the faculty’s regulations on habilitation, the following documents must be submitted in writing (to the dean’s office):

  1. Letter of application to the dean (stating the subject for which the habilitation is being applied for)
  2. Curriculum vitae (complete, in tabular form)
  3. Doctoral degree certificate(s) and certificates of higher education qualifications obtained to date (certified)
  4. Written declaration on oath that the written habilitation work was produced independently and that all resources used have been fully cited
  5. A statement as to whether, and if so by whom, the preparation of the habilitation thesis was scientifically supervised
  6. A list of academic publications, inventions and other technical and academic achievements
  7. Documents evidencing teaching activity over at least four semesters, comprising at least two teaching hours per semester at a university or comparable teaching activities at a research institute or similar institution
  8. a written statement confirming that the seminars were prepared and delivered independently, together with a report on the objectives, content and methods of the teaching
  9. a written statement as to whether an application for habilitation has already been submitted elsewhere
  10. a written statement specifying the language in which the teaching demonstration and the habilitation colloquium are to be conducted by the candidate
  11. the written habilitation papers in at least five printed copies

Entry Requirements

  1. Degree from a university in the UK or abroad
  2. Qualified doctoral studies
  3. Habilitation qualifications 

Postdoctoral Work

  1. Habilitation thesis (monograph or a cumulative habilitation)
  2. a teaching demonstration
  3. an academic lecture in the subject of the habilitation, followed by a habilitation colloquium

Further details can be found in the Habilitation Regulations