Ombudspersons for doctoral students
Confidential contact persons for doctoral students wishing to discuss with a professor with experience in academic practices
Student Guide
Aalto Doctoral Programme in Engineering
Programme main page
Contact information
Contact us
Contact us primarily via email or phone.
| Emails: | [email protected], [email protected] |
| Office hours: | book an appointment by email |
| Street address: | room 233, Tietotie 1 E, Otaniemi |
| Postal address: | P.O.Box 15200, 00076 AALTO |
Director of the Doctoral Programme in Engineering
Doctoral education services
Planning officer Ritva Viero
Suunnittelija, opintoasiat
Coordinator Reetta Mannola
Koordinaattori, opintoasiat
Doctoral education services
Our staff helps you with
Planning officer Riva Viero
- secretary of the Doctoral Programme Committee
- process of pre-examination of doctoral thesis
- appointing the opponent
- cotutelle agreements
- general matters of doctoral programme
- applications for doctoral studies
- applications for funded doctoral programme positions
Coordinator Reetta Mannola
- confirmation of the study plan
- approval of doctoral thesis and graduation
- changing the supervising professor or thesis advisor
- examination and approval of licentiate thesis and graduation
- scholarship applications for the first two scientific articles
- applications for doctoral studies
- public defence announcement and public display of doctoral thesis
- scholarship applications for doctoral students and for doctoral degree completion
- registering individual study attainments, doctoral studies
Doctoral Programme Committee
Doctoral programme committee (School of Engineering)
The Doctoral programme committee of the School decides about developing the content of the doctoral programme, prepares the curriculum and admission criteria and makes various decisions related to the evaluation process of the doctoral theses of individual students, among other things.
Research fields and professors
Research fields and supervising professors (School of Engineering)
Research field is an area of academic research in which the school has agreed to provide doctoral education. The Aalto Doctoral Programme in Engineering offers doctoral education in 8 research fields. Each doctoral student is appointed a supervising professor who represents the research field approved for the student.
Departments
There are three departments at the School of Engineering. Read about the research focus of each department on their pages.
Department of Built Environment
Water resources, spatial data, sustainable asset management and safe transportation.
Department of Civil Engineering
The Department of Civil Engineering aims to build the structures of tomorrow through research, education and collaboration.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is a leading multidisciplinary research establishment with strong industrial ties and impact on industry and society alike.
Ombudspersons and support for challenges
Ombudspersons are voluntary professors with solid experience in academic practices whom doctoral students can contact confidentially in challenges related to the thesis work. In case of challenging situations, we also have a support system of e.g. study psychologists and workplace mediators.
Support for challenges during your doctoral studies
If you face difficult situations as a doctoral student, read about the support available and your possible next steps.
Career design
Career Design for Students
Career design is an experimental approach for creating a meaningful career path in the constantly changing world of work.
