Here you can find plenty of information relevant for all members. If you feel something is missing or find a link that does not work, please contact the CVM planning officer.
Most information has been moved to Instructions for students website. You can find also doctoral programme specific information there.
There are more than 170 supervisors and co supervisors who guide the scientific work.
Doctoral education in CVM includes national and international courses, congresses and work visits outside own working place. CVM has wide network of experts representing several fields in clinical veterinary medicine in the Universities, institutions, national organisations and industry. In addition, doctoral candidates’ own activities (Student council) and peer support helps in networking. Research expertise, other skills and career planning are followed in annual thesis committee meetings where outside scientific experts support the progress of doctoral candidates.
All doctors graduated from CVM are employed in expert positions in various fields in translational and clinical veterinary medicine in addition to animal welfare posts in academic, authority, clinical teacher, in clinical practice and industry as well as being independent entrepreneurs.
University page: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/university/units-and-faculties
University of Helsinki:
– Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
– Veterinary teaching hospital in Helsinki (horses, small animals) and in Mäntsälä, Saari (production animals).
– Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
– Faculty of Biological and Environmental sciences
– Faculty of Behavioural Sciences
– HiLIFE: Institute of Biotechnology, Neuroscience Center
University of Turku, University of Eastern Finland, Åbo Akademy University, Tampere University of Technology, University of Oulu
Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira
Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
Private sector, industry, authorities
NOVA (Nordic), BOVA (Baltic) networks
Doctoral candidates' transition to the new degree system in the Instructions for students website.
Degree requirements before 1.8.2017
Faculty of veterinary medicine: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/portal/units/vetmed?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=P11200193161369991165437&contentId=HY295984&placeId=HY295977
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry: https://flamma.helsinki.fi/portal/units/mmtdk?_nfpb=true&_windowLabel=T19000822591380282319087&contentId=HY363024&lang=en&_pageLabel=P12200122591380282318343
E-forms for transition to the new requirements
SU: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/81011/lomake.html
SVE: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/81011/lomake.html?rinnakkaislomake=RUtohtori
ENG: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/81011/lomake.html?rinnakkaislomake=ENGtohtori
Thesis committee is obligatory for all CVM students who have started on 2014 or later. It will become obligatory for ALL students on 1.8.2020.
More information and CVM-specific instructions on Instructions for students website.
Thessa (https://thessa.helsinki.fi/ ) is a new online tool for planning and follow-up of PhD studies, and it will become mandatory for new doctoral candidates, their supervisors and thesis committees starting from Autumn 2018.
See more in the Instructions for students website.
Doctoral training related information are e-mailed by dpcvm-members@helsinki.fi email list for doctoral candidates and supervisors. To subscribe, send an e-mail from your helsinki.fi account to majordomo@helsinki.fi. Leave the subject-line empty and write in the message field: subscribe dpcvm-members
As a member of the dpcvm-members list, you are automatically added to the email-list of the Doctoral School in Health Sciences (dshealth-phd@helsinki.fi) that provides announcements of the courses in transferable skills and other useful information.
More than 90 supervisors from 14 institutions are currently affiliated to CVM.
CVM supervisors affiliated with University of Helsinki can be found in the TUHAT database, LINK.
Please note that the list includes both students and supervisors. If you're looking for a potential supervisor, look for people having 'Supervisor in doctoral programme' title.
Supervisors not affiliated to University of Helsinki in the list below.
Jaakko Mononen
Heli Lindeberg
Leena Ahola
Heikki Roininen
Petteri Nieminen
Pertti Rannikko
Rauno Sairinen
Pekka Jokinen
Hannu Räty
Matti Kuittinen
Matti Tolvanen
Jussi Silvonen
Satu Mering
Timo Nevalainen
Minna-Liisa Heiskanen
Taru Peltola
Olli Koistinen
Juha Räikkä
Markku Oksanen
Elisa Aaltola
Markku Suksi
Jari Hyttinen
Jukka Pennanen
Hanna-Marja Voipio
Marketta Rinne
Hannu Korhonen
Satu Raussi
Jarmo Valaja
Ismo Strandén
Liisa Sihvonen
Kimmo Peltonen
Saara Raulo
Sinikka Pelkonen
Annamaria Eriksson-Kallio
Anssi Tast, Vethaus OY
Eija Helander, Suomen Rehu Oy
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Isabelle Veissier
Joop Lensik
Anne-Marie de Passillé
Jeff Rushen, PhD
David Sims
Jan Ladewig
Björn Forkman
Dvoralai Wulfsohn
Peter Sandoe
Lene Munksgaard
Henrik Madsen
Bo Algers
Stefan Gunnarsson
Anne Maria Mullen
Marija Eidukeviciene
Birgit Ranheim
Daniel Berckmans
Jean-Marie Aerts
Väino Poikalainen
Doctoral school in health sciences thesis series, instructions for publication: ‘Dissertationes Scholae Doctoralis Ad Sanitatem Investigandam Universitatis Helsinkiensis’.
The University of Helsinki PhD Students (HYVÄT) is an association for all doctoral candidates at the University of Helsinki. The goal is to advocate the interests of doctoral students and to function as a liaison between doctoral students and the University of Helsinki.