Doctoral programme committee (School of Electrical Engineering)

Members of the Doctoral Programme Committee

The doctoral programme committee comprises a chair and 4 professorial members merited in doctoral education and representing the central fields of research of the school. In addition, the committee has a doctoral student member representing the fields of research of the school. The committee elects a vice chair from among its members. The committee members have deputy members.

The term of the doctoral programme committee is three calendar years. The term of the current committee continues until the end of year 2028. Student representatives are appointed for one calendar year at a time, by the proposal of the Student Union AYY.

Chairperson, Prof. Vesa Välimäki

The items are presented/prepared by:

Planning officer: Emma Holmlund
Coordinator Suvi Katajamäki (secretary of the committee)
Coordinator Miika Remahl

Contact information

Tasks of the Committee

The Doctoral Programme Committee shall

1. put forth proposals to the school academic committee on the doctoral programme curriculum, degree requirements and admissions criteria;
2. develop the school’s doctoral programme content and joint studies;
3. put forth proposals to the school academic committee on the doctoral research fields and the professors in charge of them;
4. put forth proposals to the dean regarding the admission of doctoral students;
5. appoint the preliminary examiners of doctoral theses and decide on granting permissions for the public examination of the theses;
6. appoint persons to serve as opponent(s) in the public examinations;
7. evaluate doctoral theses;
8. appoint the examiners of the licentiate theses;
9. evaluate licentiate theses; and
10. make decisions on doctoral programme development and quality assurance, and on the processing of feedback
11. consider any other matters assigned by the dean or set forth in the degree regulations.

In addition, the doctoral programme committee shall perform the following tasks (unless it has assigned them to the chair):

1. appoint doctoral students’ supervising professors and thesis advisors
2. decide the language of degree of the doctoral student and the topic and language of their doctoral thesis and
3. decide on the date and language of the public examination of the doctoral thesis and appoint the custos for it.

The doctoral programme committee has on January 2025, assigned the chair to decide on the following matters: 

1. to appoint a new supervising professor and advisor(s) for the doctoral student, if the supervising professor or thesis advisor(s) change after the start of studies but before the start of the preliminary examination;
2. to decide on the degree language of the doctoral student and on the topic and language of the licentiate or doctoral thesis, if these change after the start of the studies but before the start of the preliminary examination;
3. to decide on the time and language of the of public examination of the doctoral thesis and to appoint the custos for it if this information is changed;
4. to confirm the full-time/part-time status changes. The status is defined in admission.