LaTeX is a free document preparation system. It is particularly well suited for scientific and technical documentation and is therefore widely used in academia. This crash course is aimed at researchers from all disciplines with no prior knowledge of LaTeX and no programming experience. Participants will learn how to use a LaTeX editor to structure and typeset their manuscript, integrate their bibliography from Zotero, and create standardized output formats such as PDF. Crucially, they will also learn how to deal with error messages and where to get help when they get stuck. The exercises participants complete during the course can be reused for their own research publications such as dissertations, book chapters, or journal articles.

The course is divided over two half-days on October 13th and 20th, 2026, both from 9:00am to 1pm. The course language is English. Further course details.