Doctoral Programs
LMU Munich offers a broad range of doctoral programs as well as some umbrella structures. In addition, the university cooperates with other institutions on a doctoral level.
For further information on the academic focus of a doctoral program as well as the application procedures and closing dates, please refer to the website of the specific program. If you have any questions on a specific program, please contact the coordinator / managing director of the respective program directly.
As an alternative to participating in a doctoral program, LMU Munich offers graduates the option to complete individual doctoral studies in more than 100 subjects. Doctoral candidates are also supervised within the framework of research projects, academic institutions and research networks.
Humanities and Cultural Studies
- Cultures of Vigilance. Transformations – Spaces – Practices (DFG: SFB 1369 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Doctoral Program Buddhist Studies
- Doctoral Program Classical and Ancient Studies (PAW)
- Doctoral Program Environment and Society
- Doctoral Program Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Family Matters. Figures of Allegiance and Release (DFG: Research Training Group 2845)
- Graduate School Language & Literature: Class of Culture and History. American History – History of the Americas
- Graduate School Language & Literature: Class of Language
- Graduate School Language & Literature: Class of Language Education
- Graduate School Language & Literature: Class of Literature
- International Doctoral Program "Transformations in European Societies"
- Munich Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies
- Philology. Practices of Pre-modern Cultures, Global Perspectives and Future Concepts (Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctoral Program)
Social Sciences and Economics
Natural Sciences and Medicine
- Advanced Medical Physics for Image-Guided Cancer Therapy (DFG: Research Training Group 2274)
- Atherosclerosis – Mechanisms and Networks of Novel Therapeutic Targets (DFG: SFB 1123 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Cell-Fate Decisions in the Immune System (DFG: SFB 1054 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Modifications (DFG: SFB 1309 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Chromatin Dynamics (DFG: SFB 1064 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- ConVeY - Continuous Verification of CYber-Physical Systems (DFG: Research Training Group 2428)
- Doctoral Program Clinical Pharmacy
- Doctoral Program "Infection Research on Human Pathogens@MvPI"
- Graduate School Life Science Munich: From Molecules to Systems
- Graduate School of Quantitative Biosciences Munich
- Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences
- Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI) (DAAD)
- Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments (DFG: TRR 392 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Nanoagents for Spatiotemporal Control of Molecular and Cellular Reactions (DFG: SFB 1032 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Ph.D. Program Medical Research in Cardiovascular Science
- Ph.D. Program Medical Research in Epidemiology & Public Health
- Ph.D. Program Medical Research in Genomic and Molecular Medicine – Personalized Approaches to Childhood Health
- Ph.D. Program Medical Research – International Health (DAAD: exceed)
- Ph.D. Program Oral Sciences
- Predictors and Outcomes in Primary Depression Care (DFG: Research Training Group 2621)
- Statistics: Theory and Methods of Empirical Modelling
- Targets in Toxicology – Deciphering Therapeutic Targets in Lung Toxicology (DFG: Research Training Group 2338)
Umbrella Structures and Networks
- Graduate School Language & Literature Munich (GS L&L)
- Munich Graduate School of Sociology (MuGSS)
- Munich Medical Research School (MMRS)
- Promovierenden-Gruppe am Historischen Seminar (PromoHist)
International Max Planck Research Schools (IMPRS) in which LMU Munich participates
- IMPRS Biological Intelligence
- IMPRS for Molecules of Life
- IMPRS for Quantum Science and Technology
- IMPRS for Translational Psychiatry
- IMPRS on Advanced Photon Science
- IMPRS on Astrophysics
- IMPRS on Elementary Particle Physics
Max Planck Schools in which LMU Munich participates
Helmholtz Graduate School in which LMU Munich participates
Munich School for Data Science in which LMU Munich participates
ENB Doctorate Program in which LMU Munich participates
- Rethinking Environment: The Environmental Humanities and the Ecological Transformation of Society (Elite Network of Bavaria: International Doctorate Program)
BayWISS-Verbundkollegs in which LMU Munich participates
- BayWISS-Kolleg Health
- BayWISS-Kolleg Life Sciences and Green Technologies
- BayWISS-Kolleg Sozialer Wandel