The Faculty Board of the Faculty of Science wishes to offer a welcoming and inspiring academic environment to all (new) PhD candidates at our Faculty. The framework for this environment is expressed in more detail in the so called Golden Rules for Supervision. These Golden Rules intend to support both PhD candidates and their supervisors to jointly travel the PhD trajectory in an inspiring and productive way. An overview of the themes and issues PhD candidates encounter in the PhD trajectory can be found in this PhD Roadmap. In every step of the PhD trajectory both the supervisors and the PhD candidate can use these combined Golden Rules and PhD Roadmap as a starting point for their conversation, no matter the issues at hand.
PhD Roadmap
PhD Roadmap
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The PhD Roadmap Faculty of Science in the VU context
The PhD Roadmap is a local initiative of the Faculty of Science and is in line with the PhD policies and procedures of the VU. On the central VU PhD page (https://vu.nl/en/research/phd) you can find more information on for example PhD gatherings, courses for PhD candidates, housing or Hora Finita. Hora Finita is the administrative system for tracking the PhD trajectory. Please note that it is important that your supervisor and you ensure that you are registered as a PhD student in the first year of your project, preferably in the first six months.
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Progress and Supervision
- Guidelines and suggestions for thesis composition
- Golden rules of PhD supervision both for supervisors and PhD candidates
- Progress monitoring and support
- Recognition and Rewards
- Courses for supervisors
- Outline proposal for faculty course PhD Supervision
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Education, training and career development
- PhD Education Guidelines Faculty of Science: guidelines on how to make your Training and Supervision plan.
- Research Integrity course
- Presentation about Authorship
- Courses per graduate school
- Career guidelines
- PhD Alumni Network (work in progress)
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Community and support
Support in general
If you are in need of any kind of help please visit the VU webpage 'Where to find help'. The webpage presents an overview of which resources are available.
PhD Council BETA
The PhD council
Welcome to the information page of the PhD Council of the Beta Faculty. If you have questions on requirements and education you are in exactly the right place. We can also help if you want to get to know your fellow PhD-students. And we will also try to reach you, in order to be able to represent our needs as PhD-students within the Beta faculty.Goals of the council
The PhD council was established with two overarching goals in mind: 1) to improve communication from the Beta faculty board to PhD students in all graduate schools of the Beta Faculty, and 2) to represent the needs of PhD students in the faculty of Beta sciences. As such, the PhD council aims to provide information on ‘doing’ your PhD, communicate on new regulations and education requirements for PhD students, gain insights into problems and solutions experienced and offered by PhD students and facilitate a network of PhD students at the Beta faculty.Contact: phdcouncil.beta@listserver.vu.nl
PhD coordinators
Every department has a PhD coordinator who is responsible for the PhD Education Program and PhD policy and procedures of the department / graduateschool.
Department PhD coordinator e-mail Mathematics prof.dr. R.C.A.M. van der Vorst r.c.a.m.vander.vorst@vu.nl Computer Science Dr. J. Urbani j.urbani@vu.nl Physics and Astronomy prof.dr. H.L. Bethlem h.l.bethlem@vu.nl Chemistry and
Pharmaceutical Science
dr. D. Geerke and Y. Schipper phdcoordination.sf@vu.nl Environment & Health dr. J.R. Haanstra
Sense: Paolo Scussolini
AIMMS: Jurgen Haanstra
mt@aimms.vu.nl
paolo.scussolini@vu.nl
Molecular Cell Biology dr. J.R. Haanstra mt@aimms.vu.nl Institute for Environmental
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dr. P. Scussolini Paolo.scussolini@vu.nl Ecological Science prof.dr. E.T. Kiers toby.kiers@vu.nl Earth Science dr. M. Sanchez Roman
m.sanchezroman@vu.nl
ATHENA institute dr. B.J. Regeer b.j.regeer@vu.nl Health Sciences dr. J.M. van Dongen j.m.van.dongen@vu.nl Neuro Sciences Prof. dr. M. Verhage
R. Lustenhouwer
r.lustenhouwer@vu.nl