Doctoral Committee
Tasks of the Doctoral Committee:
- to develop the faculty’s doctoral training and to monitor the quality level of the doctoral theses
- to prepare matters related to the doctoral degree for the Board of the Faculty
- to endorse the appointing of the preliminary examiners and sending the doctoral thesis work to preliminary examination
- to give an endorsing statement for permission to defend the doctoral thesis
- to endorse a completed postgraduate study entity for approval
- to approve changes in the conditions of the doctoral training (changes in supervision, in the follow-up committee and in the research plan of a doctoral researcher)
- to look after the legal rights of the doctoral researchers
The composition of the Doctoral Committee 1 April 2026 onward:
Professor Solja Niemelä, chair
Docent Seija Ala-Nissilä
Docent Sufyan Garoushi
Docent Maija Hollmén
Docent Lauri Ivaska
Professor Jukka Kemppainen
Docent Dan Laukka
Docent Aino Latva-Rasku
Docent Pieta Mattila
Professor Riitta Parkkola
Associate Professor Markus Pääkkönen
Docent Petra Sipilä
Professor Marjorita Sormunen
Professor Sari Stenholm
Docent Maria Sundvall
Associate Professor Konsta Teppo
Associate Professor Aleksi Tornio
Docent Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela
Lic.Med. Marjo Ajosenpää, representative of the doctoral researchers
Chief Academic Officer Outi Irjala, secretary, Tel. 050-5634 662