The Department of Psychology welcomes your interest in a doctorate. What do you need to consider for a doctorate?
Application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate
Once you have found a doctoral topic and a supervisor, please submit an application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate to the dean's office.
You do not have to be enrolled as a doctoral student to do a doctorate in the department.
To do this, please submit the following documents by email to psy-promotion@rptu.de:
1. completed application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate (incl. supervisor's signature)
2. curriculum vitae with educational background
3. Notarized copy of the certificate of the university degree required for the doctorate (Master's degree, diploma).
The certification is not required if you completed your degree at the University of Landau.
4. Supervision Agreement Faculty PSY (see Word template)
5. exposé on the planned doctoral topic including timetable in pdf format (see Appendix 1 of the doctoral regulations)
6. as soon as you have been accepted as a doctoral candidate, you must complete the application for registration and submit it to Department 4 and the Dean's Office of Psychology (psy-promotion@rptu.de).
You do not have to be enrolled as a doctoral student to do a doctorate in the department.
However, registration is required.
In order for the application to be dealt with at a doctoral committee meeting, the documents must be submitted at least two weeks before the meeting.
Admission to the Doctoral Program
Once your dissertation is complete, submit an application for admission to the doctoral program to the dean’s office.
To do so, please submit the following documents and information via email to psy-promotion@rptu.de:
1. Application for admission to the doctoral program ( including signatures from the advisor, second reviewer, and chair of the committee.
You may indicate your preferences regarding the selection of reviewers and the chair in the application. If you do not propose any individuals,
the doctoral committee will appoint commission members)
2. Dissertation
3. Affidavit pursuant to § 10(2), sentence 4, and § 13(2) of the Doctoral Regulations (for manuscripts with multiple authors:
proof of each author’s contribution based on the provided CRediT table)
4. Curriculum vitae including educational background
5. Additionally, for publication-based dissertations, in a separate PDF file: Proof of the status of the manuscripts if they have not yet been published at
(e.g., under review by Journal X, accepted for publication by Journal X)
In addition, please submit the following original documentsby mail to the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU),
Ms. Ruzika
Fortstraße 7
76829 Landau
:
1. Four bound copies of the dissertation, each accompanied by a USB drive containing an electronic version of the dissertation as a PDF file (without write protection)
2. Certificate of Good Conduct (if necessary; see § 10(5) of the Doctoral Regulations)
In order for the application to be considered at a Doctoral Committee meeting, the documents must be submitted no later than two weeks before the meeting (the upcoming dates for Doctoral Committee meetings can be found in the “Dates and Members of the Doctoral Committee” section).
After the Doctoral Committee meeting, you will be notified whether your application has been approved. The dissertation manuscripts will then be forwarded for review. The reviewers have three months to complete their reviews. Once the reviews have been received, the dissertation will be made available for public inspection, followed by an invitation to the public defense. There must be at least four weeks between the receipt of the reviews and the defense.
You will arrange the date of the defense with the members of the Doctoral Committee and notify us immediately by email so that we can book a room for the defense and coordinate the deadlines.
After the defense you will receive an invoice for the doctoral fee of 170 EUR.
You will receive more detailed information about the further process via e-mail from Ms. Ruzika.
Please also note the following information:
If the dissertation is published online, the library recommends removing personal data in the CV and the signature on the affidavit in the online version of the dissertation.
The documents can be easily processed using the free tools Master PDF-Editor or Adobe Reader.
Doctoral degree regulations
Application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate
Supervision agreement Faculty PSY
Application for admission to doctoral studies
CRediT table
Explanation of the own contribution and the contribution of all co-authors using the CRediT category system
Application for registration
Members
Prof. Dr. Benjamin E. Hilbig (Dean, Chair)
Prof. Dr. Julia Glombiewski (Associate Dean, Vice Chair)
Prof. Dr. Ottmar Braun
Prof. Dr. Julia Karbach
Prof. Dr. Michaela Maier
Dr. Saskia Scholten
Bärbel Ruzika
Christoph Jung
Dates
April 15, 2026
July 8, 2026
October 28, 2026
December 16, 2026
February 3, 2027
On 24.06.2024, the elections for the doctoral student representation (term of office: 01.10.2024-30.09.2025) took place in the Department of Psychology.
Sabrina Ecker was elected as a member and Pascal Merz as a deputy member of the doctoral student representation.
Continuing Education Program in Adult Psychotherapy (WIPP)
Statistical Modeling in Psychology" (SMiP)
Landauer Scientist Practitioner Program
Bärbel Ruzika
Fortstr. 7; Building K; Room K 5.23b
+49 6341 280-33400
psy-promotion@rptu.de
