3. Defence

The entire defence should not last longer than 90 minutes; a maximum of 30 minutes are allocated to your talk on the topic of your dissertation. The defence is about the content of your dissertation, the reviews and if applicable additional reviews and will also cover selected problems in the subject and cover related areas of other subjects which are connected to the subject or subjects of your dissertation from the point of view of content and method.

The chair of the doctoral committee will invite you, the members of the examination committee and the researchers who have provided an additional review. The defence is open to the public and will take place in German or in English.