Doctoral programs
LMU Munich offers a wide range of structured doctoral programs as well as several umbrella structures. In addition, LMU cooperates with other institutions on a doctoral level.
Besides joining one of the doctoral programs listed below, LMU Munich offers the option of pursuing individual doctoral studies in more than 100 subjects.
Information on application deadlines and procedures of a doctoral program can be found on the website of the respective program. If you have any questions about a doctoral program, please contact the program directly.
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, Economics and Management
Natural Sciences and Medicine
- Atherosclerosis – Mechanisms and Networks of Novel Therapeutic Targets (DFG: SFB 1123 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Chemical Biology of Epigenetic Modifications (DFG: SFB 1309 - Integrated Research Training Group)
- Compartmentalized Cellular Networks in Neurovascular Diseases (DFG: SFB 1744 - 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)
- Machine Learning and Control Theory: Exploring Synergies, Complementarities, and Mutual Benefits (METEOR)
- Molecular Evolution in Prebiotic Environments (DFG: TRR 392 - 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)
- Targets in Toxicology – Deciphering Therapeutic Targets in Lung Toxicology (DFG: Research Training Group 2338)