Doctorate in the STEM sections

Computer science/engineering, natural sciences and psychology

The Computer Science/Engineering, Natural Sciences and Psychology sections award the academic degrees Dr. rer. nat., Dr.-Ing., Dr. phil. and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The Doctoral Committee is identical to the STEM Senate Committee (the meeting dates can be found under the following link).

The current doctoral degree regulations can be found here:

All "starters" are asked to register at the Doctoral Office STEM!

Please fill in the online form to do so.

Please contact the Doctoral Office STEM six months before submitting your dissertation.

Here you will receive all information about details of the procedure and formalities:

Doctoral Office STEM
Universität zu Lübeck
Center for Doctoral Studies Lübeck
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck

Iris Kruck

Ongoing doctoral procedures

Display of dissertations and reviews:

Inspection only by members of the doctoral committee with a doctorate and habilitated members of the STEM sections

Oral examinations:

The university public can take part in the public part of the examination, the habilitated members of the STEM sections can take part in the entire examination. Family or friends may not take part in the examination!

Evelyn Knappe: Neuron–Microglia Cellular Model of Parkinson’s Disease: Cell-Type-Specific Dysfunctions Driven by PRKN Mutations, 31.08.-21.09.2026 

Christina Bomholt: Immunomodulatory influence of Cell-derived Nanoparticle in T cell immunity in vitro and in vivo, 31.08.-21.09.2026

Naqibullah Rahimi: Microstructural changes and mitochondrial bioenergetics in Parkinson’s disease: Multimodal mapping with Quantitative MRI and 31P-MRSI, 01.09.-22.09.2026 

Simon Stefan Lotz: Schnelle optische Kohärenztomographie für die medizinische Robotik, 01.09.-22.09.2026

Yuri Cotrado Sehgelmeble: Vehicular routing in three-dimensional environments: UAV-RSU Assisted Position-based Routing in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks, 02.09-23.09.2026 

Montag, 07.09.2026, BMF, 2. OG, Seminarraum 58.00, 15:30 Uhr: Anna Paulina Teegen: The Role of the C-type Lectin Receptor Dectin-2 in Myeloid Immune Responses against Melanoma

Dienstag, 15.09.2026, 15:00 Uhr, Fraunhofer IMTE, Raum Lübeck: Carlotta Hennigs: In Silico Clinical Trials in Mechanical Ventilation: A Patient-Device Model and its Guidance-Based Validatio

Freitag, 25.09.2026, 12:00 Uhr, BMF, 4. OG, Raum 29.00: Thorben Sauer: Blood Tells It All: Decoding Epithelial Cancer Through Liquid Biopsy Based Proteomics