Supervising a doctoral thesis is the academic function of guiding, supervising and ensuring the scientific and methodological coherence of the research carried out by the doctoral candidate up to its defence.

Doctors who are part of the doctoral programme's staff. You can consult the list of potential supervisors and the research lines to which they are affiliated in the details for each programme.

Yes. External researchers with a Doctorate may supervise or co-supervise doctoral theses if they can demonstrate sufficient research experience and obtain authorisation from the Academic Commission.

As a general rule, each doctoral thesis will have one supervisor. Exceptionally, the Academic Commission may authorise co-supervision (up to three co-supervisors) when there are academic, interdisciplinary or institutional collaboration reasons that justify it.

• Supervisor: Oversees the suitability of the doctoral candidate's training activities within the doctoral programme and must be a permanent member of academic staff at the UV.
• Director: Is responsible for scientific supervision and the development of the research and can be external to the University of Valencia.

The same person can hold both roles if authorised to do so by the Academic Committee.

Yes. The supervisor must be authorised to supervise theses in the research line to which the doctoral thesis is registered.

The thesis supervisor must be assigned within three months of your first enrolment for the doctoral programme. You can find information about this procedure on the website under: Administrative Information > Procedures > Assignment of Supervisor, Tutor and Research Line.