ZIM account for external (non-enrolled) doctoral and postdoctoral students

External doctoral candidates – i.e. candidates who are supervised by a professor of the University of Passau but are neither enrolled nor employed at the University – as well as external habilitation candidates can apply for a ZIM account, which enables them to use the computer network and virtual learning environments of the University.

We will be happy to set up an account with an associated university e-mail address for you as an external doctoral or postdoctoral researcher. Please note the following information and fill in all required fields (*)

On a rotational basis, the username expires every mid-November and mid-May. For licensing reasons, we have to check twice a year whether you are still a member of the University in order to be able to renew your username.

We automatically update and renew the username for all registered/admitted external doctoral candidates. You do not have to concern yourself with this. External habilitation students will be contacted twice a year and asked for your current confirmation of supervision from their supervisor.

Before submitting, do not forget to upload your admission confirmation to doctoral studies or your acceptance as a doctoral or habilitation student.

Special features of the account

The accounts of external doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are set up similarly to undergraduate/master's students' ZIM accounts but differ in the following points:

The associated e-mail address has the format "given_name-family_name@uni-passau.de" (the names are separated by a hyphen).

Sending e-mails from your university e-mail address is only possible via the web interface of the e-mail system. You cannot access protected IT resources and services externally via OpenVPN or eduroam.

Requirements

- Doctoral candidates: upload your letter of acceptance as a doctoral student or admission to doctoral study

- Habilitation candidates: upload your acceptance as a habilitation candidate

A) Personal details

B) Contact details

C) Membership status

D) Details of the thesis

E) Supporting documents

In order to enable us to process your enquiry, we reserve the right to forward it to the relevant departments.