The committee's tasks include professional evaluation of applications, recommendation for admission and follow-up of PhD candidates and supervisors through annual reporting.
More specifically:
The PhD Committee at the Department of Technology Systems (ITS) is the department's contact point for the PhD programme council at the MN Faculty. The PhD Committee receives and evaluates all applications related to the PhD programme at ITS. This includes applications for admission to the PhD programme, project extensions, changing advisors, and disputations. The PhD Committee is committed to ensuring the quality of PhD education at ITS - from the announcement of positions to disputations - and prepares local guidelines to support this goal.
Roles and representatives
Leader: Paal Engelstad
Permanent academic: Marianne Zeyringer, Jan Wohland
PhD-candidate: Nikolas Recke
Secretary (not member): The Phd coordinator at ITS (phd-admin@its.uio.no)
The members of the PhD committee are appointed for 4 years with the exception of the PhD candidate for 2 years. The committee consists of a leader, a permanent scientific employee and a PhD candidate. The administration has the secretary role.
The chair of the PhD committee is representative of the institute in the PhD program at the Faculty of Mathmatics.
This information in Norwegian
The work of the PhD committee on the Web
For PhD enquiries: phd_admin@mn.uio.no