Coordinating academic of a doctoral researcher

All doctoral researchers will be assigned a supervisor or supervisors and a coordinating academic. The coordinating academic is a professor of the student’s home faculty or a docent employed by the faculty with good knowledge of the requirements and practices of Doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki

At the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences all professors and associate professors may act as the coordinating academic for a doctoral student. Staff of the research institutes, such as HiLIFE, cannot act as a coordinating academic.

The coordinating academic’s duties do not include actual supervision responsibilities, but one of the supervisors may be assigned to be the coordinating academic, if they fulfill the above-mentioned criteria. The coordinating academic will be appointed at the same time as the supervisors.

Duties of the coordinating academic:

Signs the application to pursue a doctoral degree in UH
When submitting the thesis to the Faculty for pre-examination she/he proposes the pre-examiners, the opponent, the Faculty member(s) (if needed) and the custos
Checks the plagiarism report of the thesis
Accepts the study modules in the doctoral study module registration form in case no other responsible person (study planner of the doctoral program) has been nominated to do this

On the Instructions for teaching -service there is more about the role of a coordinating academic.

The coordinating academics in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental sciences

At the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences all professors and associate professors may act as the coordinating academic for a doctoral student starting in 1.2.2024.