The Boehringer Ingelheim Fund (BIF) awards doctoral scholarships

Application documents

Please order documents 1-7 for PDF as follows

1. Title and summary of the doctoral project (max. 1400 characters, spaces included)
2. Project proposal: detailed presentation of the doctoral project containing the formulation of the problem, the current state of research, the bases of the candidate, the objectives, the experimental strategy including the methods of investigation (at least 4 to 5 pages for strategy and methods), references (including all authors and full titles of articles cited), work schedule indicating the expected duration of the entire project and individual milestones.
3. Reasons why you want to work with the proposed group
4. Summary of the final experimental thesis (eg: license, diploma, master’s thesis) preceding the doctoral project; if none have been completed, please indicate the reason (s) in the “Additional Information” field of the online application and provide a summary of your most important laboratory internship.
5. List of candidate’s publications (if applicable)
6. Scans of certificates of all academic qualifications (including grades) and pre-university vocational training certificates (if applicable); in chronological order, most recent at the top. If the language of the certificates is not English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Turkish, please provide a translation.
7. Scans of high school diploma / high school leaving certificate, including grades (e.g. Abitur, Baccalaureate, A-Levels) and, in addition, where applicable, university entrance test ( e.g. SAT / ACT, PAU, YGS / LYS, joint entrance exam, etc.). If the language of the certificates is not English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish or Turkish, please provide a translation.
8. Letter (s) of recommendation emailed directly from supervisors.

Letter of recommendation

Letters are required from

• The director of the doctoral thesis
• The supervisor of the MSc or equivalent thesis (e.g. BSc, diploma), if different from the thesis supervisor
• If no final experimental thesis has been completed, by the director of the most important laboratory internship.

Letters of recommendation must be written in English, on official letterhead and signed. They should be sent separately by the supervisors themselves via email as a PDF attachment named as follows: candidate name_ candidate name_MSc / PhD / other (depending on who wrote the recommendation letter) to:  secretariat [ at] bifonds.de  . (Example: smith_john_MSc.pdf)