PhD Roadmap

PhD Roadmap

• 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. 

• 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

• 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)

• 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

  Survey PhD candidates 2020

  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  Studies	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