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Lisa Schmidt
Berlin, Berlin, Germany·3/12/2026

Research supervisor plagiarized my PhD thesis work — published under his name

My PhD supervisor at a university in Berlin published my 2 years of research under his name as sole author. My lab notebooks, code, and data were used. When I confronted him, he threatened to fail my thesis defense. I have timestamped commits on GitHub and original lab notebooks.
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Report to the university's Ombudsperson for Good Scientific Practice (Ombudsperson für gute wissenschaftliche Praxis).
Step 2
File complaint with DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Commission on Research Integrity.
Contact German Research Ombudsman at ombudsman-fuer-die-wiss
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Comments (4)

Sarah Johnson3/12/2026

Filing my own complaint about this right now. Enough is enough.

Anonymous3/12/2026

Sent this to my local MP. They promised to look into it.

Lisa Schmidt3/13/2026

Filing my own complaint about this right now. Enough is enough.

Mia Anderson3/12/2026

This made me angry just reading it. How can they get away with this?

Jack Murphy3/13/2026

Just shared this on Twitter. Let's make this trend.

Anonymous3/15/2026

Just donated to support this platform. Keep exposing these issues.

Anonymous3/12/2026

Been fighting the same battle for 2 years. Don't give up!