Members of the doctoral committee must be habilitated university faculty. The main supervisor must hold a habilitation or be appointed as a professor in the subject selected as the dissertation's primary discipline.

Students submit their dissertations via myWU. All submitted dissertations are automatically subjected to a plagiarism check. The plagiarism report is also available in myWU. You can approve the dissertation if it is ready for publication and the plagiarism check raises no concerns, or you can return it to the student for revisions. The affidavit is confirmed by the student directly in myWU.

Important note: Once you approve the plagiarism check results, neither the title nor the content of the submitted dissertation can be modified!

After approving the plagiarism check results, you have four months to evaluate the dissertation. The assessment protocol and written evaluations must be submitted by the reviewers to the Doctoral Office.

A step-by-step guide can be found here.

If you have any questions about this process, please contact doktoratsreferat@wu.ac.at.

In exceptional cases, it is possible to request an embargo on a dissertation. For more information, please see the guidelines of the academic director.