Coordinating academic of a doctoral candidate

All doctoral students will be assigned 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.

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

At the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine following persons may act as the coordinating academic for a doctoral student: professor or associate professor or docent that has working contract with the Faculty.

You find their contact information on website.

Duties of the coordinating academic:

Signs the application to pursue a doctoral degree at the Faculty
When submitting the thesis to the Faculty for pre-examination coordinating academic proposes the pre-examiners, the opponent, the custos and if needed, other members of the grading committee
Accepts the study modules in the doctoral study module registration form in case no other, e.g., senior advisor of the doctoral program, has been nominated to do this

-service there is more detailed information about the role of a coordinating academic.