Master Thesis and Defense
For students
After completing this module students will have learned to perform scientific work independently and at a demanding level. In addition, they will have gained substantial further training in presenting their results to scientific audiences in written and oral form. Students will be able to defend their scientific achievements and to develop their own ideas within their research fields.
The master's thesis is credited with 30 CP which implies a certain workload that can be achieved after 6 months. If you hand in your master's thesis earlier than one month before the deadline this might imply that the workload has not been achieved.
General module description MN-B-MT
For further information, and thesis and thesis defense forms download the specific PDF document:
- Thesis what to know and what to do
- Thesis registration
- International mobility during M.Sc.
- Defense registration
- Defense form
Due to organisational reasons we would advise you to hand in the form for the registration of your master's thesis defense together with your thesis.
Permission to act as supervisor of a master thesis
The Degree Comittee nominates the supervisors with respective expertise in the module master thesis from the professors, the adjunct professors, honory professors, assistant professors as well as the associate professors of the department of biology.
Professors, the adjunct professors, honory professors, assistant professors as well as the associate professors of other faculties as well as independent group leaders can be nominated as supervisors in charge if they contribute to teaching of lecture modules, seminar modules or subject modules of the specific M.Sc. curriculum of the first academic year on a regular basis. Lecturing has to be proven by specification in the module description and respective lectureship.
All Master Thesis projects must be supervised by a programme specific 1st supervisor:
- Computational Biology
- Ecology, Evolution, and Environment
- Genetics and Biology of Aging and Regeneration
- Molecular Plant and Microbial Sciences
- Neuroscience
The 2nd reviewer may be selected from any of the lists above.
For reviewers
The evaluation form for the Master's Thesis can be downloaded here: