Thesis template for PhD/Lic thesis at Chalmers

This is a LaTeX template for a PhD/Lic thesis follows Chalmers recommendations on thesis layout.

A PhD thesis in Sweden is either a monograph, which is a coherent scientific work, or a compilation, which is a collection of papers tied together by a short summary (20-50 pages) called kappa. This template shows how to typeset a compilation thesis.

Files and folders

• main.tex -- main file to compile
• frontmatter/ -- cover, copyrights, abstract, abbreviations etc.
• frontmatter/common-basic-info.tex -- thesis author, year, etc.
• kappa/body.tex -- introductory chapters that tie together the appended papers
• paper-... -- the appended papers
• main-for-defence-announcement.tex -- defence announcement flyer (printed separately)

Compiling

Compilation is straightforward:

pdflatex main
biber main
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Make sure that you have the latest versions of Biber and LaTeX packages.

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