Would you like to change your first name, last name, gender, or date of birth?

• If you are not registered in Docata with a UHH user ID (Docata account), please contact Docata Support.
• If you are registered with a UHH user ID (e.g., BBD7601), please first have your information updated at the Campus Center (for enrolled doctoral students) or with Human Resources (for UHH employees) and then also in Docata via Docata Support.

Please note that providing complete and accurate information regarding all first and last names as well as dates of birth is essential for the issuance of certificates.

Here you will find all the addresses you have saved in the system.
Please check your home address. If it is no longer current, please add a new address.
Please also delete any addresses that are no longer current.

If you have created multiple addresses, please specify your correspondence address here.

Here, you can add or delete phone numbers and email addresses. Please confirm the new email addresses.
If you would like to set a new correspondence email address, you can do so in the next step. Unless you are registered with your B-ID, in which case your correspondence email address is always your UHH email address.

Please note: We send emails exclusively to your primary email address.

If your Docata login is not yet linked to your UHH user ID, you can change your primary email address yourself here.

If you are registered in Docata with your UHH user ID, your correspondence email address is always the UHH email address linked to your UHH user ID. For UHH employees, this is @uni-hamburg.de; otherwise, it is @studium.uni-hamburg.de.
Here you will find information about university email, such as how to set up your mailbox in an email program or access it online.

If you wish to apply for the doctoral examination process in another faculty or change your doctoral regulations, please contact your current faculty.

For German-language doctoral degrees, the following options are available under “pursued academic title”: Doktor (male), Doktorin (female), or Doktor:in (gender-neutral). The title you select will appear on your doctoral diploma.

Discuss with your supervisor whether there is an institutional cooperation involved. This information can be updated in Docata at any time after approval.

Doctorate without cooperation:
This applies when your research will be conducted at an institute or other establishment at Universität Hamburg, even if you have taken an (external) employment that is unrelated to your research project/your doctoral studies.

Doctorate in cooperation with another university in Germany:
This only includes cooperation involving formal, institutional arrangements. It does not apply when a supervisor or reviewer
(assessor) at another German university has played a role in your doctoral studies without a formal, institutional arrangement.

Doctorate in cooperation with a foreign/non-German university, binational doctorate (Cotutelle):
This must involve a contractual arrangement according to Joint doctorates with foreign institutions of the doctoral degree regulations that apply for your doctoral procedures. It does not apply when a supervisor or reviewer (assessor) at a university abroad has played a role in your doctoral studies without a formal, institutional arrangement.

Doctorate in cooperation with a university of applied sciences:
This only includes cooperation involving formal, institutional arrangements. It does not apply when a supervisor or reviewer
(assessor) at a university of applied sciences has played a role in your doctoral studies without a formal, institutional arrangement.

Doctorate in cooperation with a non-university research institute:
This applies when you work within a non-university research institution as part of your doctoral studies and must involve a contractual cooperation agreement.

Doctorate in cooperation with industry (industry-sponsored doctorate) or other institution:
This applies when you work in the research department of a company or other organization as part of your doctoral studies or when your doctoral studies are undertaken in connection with a research contract from a company or other organization and you have a contract or other written agreement.

Please review your information regarding breaks in your degree program and update it if necessary.
This information is required for institutional statistics.

Please review your information and, if necessary, add any additional research stays.

To do so, select the type of stay and the time period.
Under Name of the host institution please enter the full name of the university or institution you attended during your stay abroad.
Also select the country and the mobility program.

Here are some examples of the options under Funding:

01 EU-program:

• All European educational programs, currently Erasmus+ (2014–2020)
• Erasmus+ student mobility for studies (SMS)
• Erasmus+ student mobility for traineeships (SMP)
• EU–non-EU program (EU–China, EU–USA, EU–Canada, etc.)

02 Non EU-Programm:

• Universität Hamburg scholarship
• Host university scholarship
• Scholarship from a publicly funded foundation (e.g., the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
• DAAD scholarship (e.g., Promos, ISAP, Carlo Schmid Program, FIT worldwide, Go East summer school, IAESTE, etc.)
• Pädagogischer Austauschdienst (PAD) / COMENIUS school exchange scholarship

03 Non-publicly funded program:

• Scholarship from a private host university
• Scholarship from a privately funded foundation (e.g., Bayer Foundations, Joachim Herz Foundation, Stiftung Mercator)
• Private domestic or international funding programs (e.g., BMW Group’s SpeedUp, NextGen Scholarship for Study in the US, Rotary Club scholarships)

04 No program (“Free Mover”):

• Self-financed—“free-mover”
• Internship abroad with no funding program

Please update your information if necessary, particularly the duration of your membership.
If you are pursuing a doctorate as part of a structured doctoral program, such as a doctoral program in your faculty, a graduate school within a Collaborative Research Center, or a graduate school at a non-university institution, please enter this information here.
If you are unable to select your graduate program, please contact your doctoral office for clarification.

This information is required for university statistics.

Please select the type of funding here.
You can find your job title in your employment contract.

The title of your dissertation must match exactly the title on your dissertation manuscript.
Please follow the guidelines in your examination regulations when selecting the ‘language’ and ‘type of dissertation’.

Please upload your dissertation as a PDF file here. Ensure that the file is of sufficient quality and minimize the file size as much as possible. Your dissertation must be an unencrypted PDF file no larger than 100 MB.

If your dissertation is larger than 100 MB, please create multiple files (Part 1 with a maximum size of 100 MB and Parts 2, 3, etc., with a maximum size of 10 MB each). Please upload Part 1 first; you can upload Parts 2, 3, etc., at the end of the application.

Discuss this information with your supervisor. The information is important for the admission to the examination procedure and must correspond to the regulations in the doctoral degree regulations.

Discuss your proposal with your supervisors. This information is important for admission to the examination procedure and must comply with the rules in the doctoral degree regulations.

This checklist provides an overview of the documents required for your application to begin the doctoral examination process. You can upload these documents in the next step.
Additional information and forms are available on your faculty’s website.

Please upload the required documents here. Once you have completed the application, you will no longer be able to upload any additional documents yourself. Therefore, please do not finalize your application to initiate the doctoral examination process until you have finished uploading all your documents.

Please ensure that scanned documents are clearly legible and that individual files do not exceed 10 MB in size. If your file is too large, you can find tools online to compress it.

In addition to submitting your application online via Docata, please submit a hard copy of your dissertation to the appropriate office in your faculty.
Your faculty’s website also provides information on the number of hard copies of your dissertation that must be submitted and any other requirements.