Doctoral Program in
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Monitoring of the PhD student

The doctoral program in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering follows the guidelines of article 11, Supervision and monitoring of doctoral students, of Royal Decree 99/2011 and of the Regulations of Official Doctoral Studies of the ULL, which in its articles 14, 15 and 16 describes the composition of the Academic Committee of the doctoral program and its functions, which include the supervision and monitoring of doctoral students during their doctoral training. The Academic Committee of the official doctoral program will be composed of six people: four professors and/or researchers corresponding to each line of research that makes up the doctoral program, a professor/researcher member of the Quality Committee who will act as secretary, and the Academic Coordinator, who will act as its president and who meets the requirements required by both the Royal Decree and the Regulations of the ULL.

Likewise, Article 23 of the Regulations describes the procedures established by the doctoral program for the supervision and monitoring of doctoral students during their doctoral training. In addition to the assignment of a tutor, the deadlines established for such assignment, and the procedure for modifying this assignment, according to Article 10 of the ULL Regulations, points 5, 6, and 7, the Academic Committee of the doctoral program will ensure an appropriate and proportionate distribution of doctoral students among the research lines comprising the doctoral program and their supervisors, establishing a series of limitations to avoid the accumulation of work under a single line and direction, excessive lengthening of the completion of the doctoral thesis for reasons beyond the students' control, or a lack of publications based on the results of the thesis.

Regarding the procedure used to monitor the activity log of each doctoral student and certify their data, the program proposes, depending on the training activity in question, that the Tutor or the Director, or, where appropriate, both, collect this information and submit it to the program's Academic Committee for certification. According to Article 15 of the ULL Regulations, this committee is responsible for annually evaluating the Research Plan and the Training Plan contained in the activity document of each student in the program within the established timeframes. This committee must also approve the doctoral students' planned stays at other national and international centers, joint supervisions, and European mentions, in accordance with the Procedure for requesting an International Mention in a doctoral thesis at the ULL.