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Interdisciplinary Doctoral School

Supervisors – I year

First year PhD candidates should submit an application to the Director for the appointment of a supervisors together with declarations of persons ready to undertake supervisors care [FORM1] or an application for the appointment of a supervisor  and an assistant supervisor together with declarations [FORM2].

On the basis of the submitted requests the Council of the Interdyscyplinary Doctoral School shall, not later than three months after the date on which the doctoral student commences their education, appoint a supervisor or supervisors.

Notice! The dissertation supervisor, additonal dissertation supervisor and assistant dissertation supervisor can be changed at the request of the doctoral student also during the course of study. Please consult the Rules and Regulations of the Interdyscyplinary Doctoral School [LINK in Polish]

You should submit the applications until 15.11.2021. The document should be signed, scanned and sent via email to the email address of the Interdyscyplinary Doctoral School (szkola.m@uw.edu.pl).


Notice! According to the new Higher Education Act, which came into force in 2018, supervisors of PhD candidates realizing education within doctoral schools must be entered into the POL-on system (POL-on it is the broadest repository of data on Polish science and higher education. The repository is composed of nearly 40 modules. In terms of the scope of the data collected it is the largest working public information system. The data gathered in the System are used predominantly by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to shape evidence-based science and higher education policies. The System’s operation and the scope of its data as well as its role among public IT systems are defined by the relevant acts of law and regulations.) we would like to ask your potential supervisors to fill up the attached questionnaire.

Personal questionnaire: FILE


General information on supervisors:

The dissertation supervisor may be a person with a degree of doktor habilitowany or the title of professor, who is distinguished by recognised national or international scientific achievements, in particular within five years before the appointment as a supervisor managed research projects, published the results of own research in peer-reviewed journals and scientific publications of recognised renown or cooperated with representatives of other scientific centres.

A dissertation supervisor cannot become a person who remains the designated supervisor for more than five doctoral students or applicants for the doctoral degree. The Director, with the agreement of the School Council, may in exceptional and justifiable cases increase this limit by no more than three.

The function of assistant supervisor may be performed by a person holding a doctoral degree.

The scientific supervision of the preparation of a doctoral dissertation shall be exercised by the supervisor or supervisors or by the supervisor and assistant supervisor, which means that a doctoral student may not have both an additional and an assistant promotor appointed at the same time. It is also not possible to have more than one assistant supervisor.