Approved thesis examiners or thesis project supervisors are persons who meet the criteria set out in Sec. 8 of the Joint Examination Regulations. The subject-specific examination regulations and/or study regulations governing the individual computer science study programmes may have provisions that extend or restrict the group of approved persons. In case of doubt, please get in touch with the relevant contact in the Examinations Office in good time. Please note:
- One of the two thesis examiners shall be the person who set the thesis topic (typically the supervisor). At least one of the thesis examiners shall be a professor or an individual drawn from the groups listed in Section 8(1), numbers 1 to 7 of the Joint Examination Regulations.
- The person who sets the thesis topic and/or supervises the thesis project (and is thus the primary thesis examiner) shall be drawn from the groups of potential advisors listed in the following link. Where possible, the primary and secondary thesis examiners should not be from the same research group.
- If the secondary thesis examiner holds a doctorate and works as a member of the non-professorial academic staff in a relevant university department, at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), in one of the Max Planck Institutes or at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) and is not on our list of potential thesis advisors, please get in touch with the relevant contact at the Examinations Office.
- The student may submit a proposal for the secondary thesis examiner; any such proposal must be submitted in good time and before the thesis submission date.