Thesis
Thesis - supervision and presentation
The PhD studies leading to the defence of a Doctoral Thesis and obtaining a Doctorate Degree at the University of Córdoba are supervised on a regular basis by the Tutors and Directors of each doctoral student, and are evaluated annually by the Doctoral Program Academic Committees, as shown on the general IDEP-Doctorate website (Section: Evaluación Anual / Annual Evaluation). If a doctoral student does not meet the requirements of this evaluation, for which they are given two opportunities, they will be obliged to permanently withdraw from the PhD program.
In the general IDEP-Doctorate website (Section: Tesis Doctoral / Doctoral Thesis), full information can be found about presenting the thesis, general requirements, types of theses, who makes up the panel of judges, documentation required, defence, etc.
In addition to these sections, the PhD Program has approved additional requirements for some types of theses. In all cases, the basic requirement is that at least one of the scientific contributions derived from the thesis has been published in an international journal with an impact index included in the Journal Citation Reports. The PhD student must appear as first author of the publication, or second if the first author is the director of the thesis. (See document in section: Reglamento / Regulations, right-hand column)
Tutors, direction and co-supervision of thesis
In order to carry out their PhD studies at the UCO, PhD students must have a tutor and at least one Director (this may be the same person as the tutor, if they belong to the UCO and student and tutor so wish). In some cases, students may request that the CAPD approve two professors or, exceptionally, up to three, as joint directors of one thesis. Full information about this choice can be found on the general IDEP-Doctorate website (Section: Dirección de Tesis Doctoral / Management of PhD Thesis).
The same page shows a list of the research lines/teams which currently form the PhD Program; the line/team managers and researchers who make up the teams are alsoLa presentación y lectura de la tesis se realizará según los establecido en la normativa que regula los estudios de doctorado de la UCO, siguiendo el procedimiento que puede encontrarse en el siguiente enlace.