The Director of the PhD Programme Sport Science is an important persons of contact regarding study affairs. He/She is 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 programme Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences, and Sport Sciences (58)

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen König
• Assoz. Prof. Dipl.-Biochem. Dr. Elke Heiß, Privatdoz. (Deputy)
• Assoz. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Barbara Wessner, Privatdoz. (Deputy,  responsible for the research branch Sport Sciences)

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.

• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arnold Baca
• ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Müllner
• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Harald Tschan
• Assoz.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Wessner