8. PUBLIC DEFENCE

The Dissertation committee accepts only digital applications.
You need to e-mail your application to disputation@ki.se. 
Digital signatures are allowed from supervisor / Study Director / Head of Department.

Time to defend your thesis
Deadlines and important dates - the Dissertation Committee
Laying out and printing a thesis
Degree certificate and Diploma Supplement

Book lecture/meeting room for your public defence in TimeEdit

A public defence application needs to be signed by the:

1. PhD student

2. Main supervisor - digital signature is allowed.

3. Director of Doctoral education. Contact her at least 2 weeks before the application deadline - after your main supervisor has signed the application. Digital signature is allowed.

4. Head of Department. Contact his assistant at least 2 weeks before the application deadline - after your main supervisor and the Director of Doctoral education have signed the application. Digital signatures are allowed.

Public defence should be advertised approximately 1 month before the dissertation.

Contact Sara von Kauffmann webb@cns.ki.se and inform her about the following:

• Day, time and place
• Dissertation thesis title
• Language - English or Swedish (Swedish is allowed if the opponent and all members of the Dissertation Committee speak Swedish)
• Main supervisor - name, title, university and institute
• Co-supervisor(s) - name, title, university and institute
• Opponent - name, title, university and institute
• The Dissertation Committee members - name, title, university and institute
• The Zoom link – if the thesis defence is hybrid with online audience. More information

Does the opponent have a Swedish social security number or coordination number (samordningsnummer)?

If not - you need to apply for SINK (special income tax for non-residents; särskild inkomstskatt för utlandsbosatta) at the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket).

You can do it via the link below:

• in English
• in Swedish

Note that you need to choose the right income year.

Send the application and a copy of the passport to:
Skatteverket
205 30 Malmö - doublecheck the address before sending at the link above

Once you have received the SINK decision, the opponent's fee (10 000 SEK) can be paid.

Then send the following documents to CNS HR Unit: Tomtebodavägen 18A, floor 5
- SINK decision
- Signed Renumeration form for temporary appointment (ersättning till tillfälligt anställda) in original - Forms and templates
- Register an account in Swedbank with the recipient's signature
- If the opponent has a swedish identity number he/she needs to register his/her bank account on Swedbank´s website. 
- Expense form (utläggsblankett) incl. receipts from taxi, SL trip, if any
- ​Copy of Decision of the examination board from Public defence, where it appears that the person was an opponent