Organization

Coordinators

Dra. Ana Bernabeu Tello

Profesora Titular de Estratigrafía

University of Vigo

Dr. Henrique Queiroga

Professor

University of Aveiro

Academic Commission

The composition of the Commission is subject to possible variations by decision of the participating institutions (coverage of places currently vacant or substitutions for different reasons).

Composition

University of Vigo

Ana Bernabeu Tello, Presidenta DOMAR-Galicia
José M. Canosa Saa
Mª Teresa de Castro Rodríguez
Paloma Morán Martínez
Jose Luis Soengas Fernández
Verónica Santalla del Río
Cristina Sobrino García

University of Santiago de Compostela

Jose Luis Sánchez López
Carlos Pereira Dopazo

University of Coruña

Nuria Fernández Rodríguez
Vicente Díaz Casás
Enrique Peña González
F. Javier Sanz Larruga
Anxo Ramón Calvo Silvosa

University of Aveiro

Henrique Queiroga Presidente DOMAR-Portugal
Jesús M. Pedreira Dubert
Ana Hilario

University of Minho

Pedro Gomes
Cláudia Pascoal

University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro

Edna C. Janeiro Cabecinha
Rui M. Vitor Cortés
Sandra Mariza Veiga Monteiro

University of Porto

Natividade Vieira
Antonio Afonso

Marine Research Institute, Spanish National Research Council

José Pintado Valverde

Vigo Oceanographic Center, Spanish Institute of Oceanography

Victoria Besada Montenegro
Mª Begoña Santos Vázquez

Functions

Definition and functions of the Academic Commission (application of Spanish Royal Decree 99/2011)

Definition
- The Academic Commission is responsible for the definition, updating, quality and coordination of the Doctorate Program, as well as the progress of research and training and the authorization of the thesis presentation of each PhD student of the program (Article 2.8).
- The Commission will be integrated by doctors and will be appointed by the University, in accordance with the provisions of its regulations, statutes and collaboration agreements, being able to integrate researchers of public research organizations as well as from other national and international entities and institutions involved in R&D (Article 8.3).
Specific functions
- Authorize the completion of part-time studies and the extension of the terms of deposit of the doctoral theses. Authorize the temporary leaves of doctoral students in the Program.(Article 3).
- Establish, when applicable, additional requirements and criteria for the selection and admission of students to the Doctoral Program. In particular, the requirement of specific training complements (Article 4).
- Establish, if applicable, additional requirements to the provisions of Spanish Royal Decree 99/11 to be a thesis director (Article 12.2).
- Assign a doctoral thesis director to each doctoral student (who will be the same as the tutor envisaged in article 11.3 of Spanish Royal Decree 99/11) and, if applicable, modify the appointment (Article. 11.4).
- Authorize, if applicable, the co-direction of the thesis and, where appropriate, revoke it (Article 12.1).
- Regulate (if the University or the Doctoral School so provides) the personalized activities document of each doctoral student, and, in any case, to regularly evaluate the Research Plan and the activity document together with the reports that must be issued for such purposes by the tutor and the director (Articles 11.5 and 11.7).
- When applicable, appoint the Commissions responsible for the follow-up of each doctoral student.
- Establish (if the University considers it) control procedures in order to guarantee the quality of the doctoral theses. (Art. 13.2).
- Determine the exceptional circumstances of non-publication of the theses referred to in article 14.6 (confidentiality agreements, etc.).
- Authorize the stays and activities of the doctoral students referred to in Article 15.1 (International mention in the title).
- Establish the University responsible for to the development of the Doctoral Program, especially and in the first place regarding the Report for the verification of the Doctoral Program (Article 10.2 and Annex I of the Decree).

Ejecutive Commission

The composition of the Executive Commission (delegate of the Academic Commission) is subject to eventual variations by decision of the participating institutions (coverage of places currently vacant or substitutions for different reasons).