The Directors and Vice-Directors of the Doctoral Studies Programme are important persons of contact regarding study affairs. They are in charge of the approval of the topic of the doctoral thesis and the approval of the doctoral thesis agreement.

Director of the study program in charge of the doctoral/PhD programme in Business, Economics and Statistics (39)

• Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Vw. Thomas Gehrig, PhD
• Univ.-Prof. Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, PhD (Deputy)
• Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Christa Cuchiero (Deputy)

Director of the study program in charge of the doctoral programme Informatics including Business Informatics (50)

• Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Helmut Hlavacs
• Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. -Ing. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (Deputy)
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Uwe Zdun (Deputy)

The doctoral advisory board is appointed in order to give advice to the administrative body responsible for study matters, to students and supervisors. The official steps towards the institution of the advisory boards are put down in the statutes §15 (7) governing university studies. The doctoral advisory board is of particular importance concerning students' presentations at the faculty. Its members are in charge of one or more fields of doctoral research or a larger part of a specific field of doctoral research within one curriculum.

Doctoral Advisory Boards for the following Fields of Doctoral Reserach

• PhD Management
• PhD Business Analytics, Logistics and Operations Research
• PhD Statistik & Operations Research
• PhD Finance
• Economics
• Business and Law
• Business Informatics