Standing Committee

Members

Management Team

• Eva Cerezo Bagdasari (Director)

• Cristina Sánchez Gimeno (Academic Secretary)

Representatives of the Coordinators of the Doctoral Programmes

• Francisco José Alfaro Pérez (Arts and Humanities)

• Mª Angeles Latorre Górriz (Science)

• Aurora Ortín Pérez (Health Sciences)

• Yolanda Gamarra Chopo (Social and Legal Sciences)

• José Antonio Albajez García (Engineering and Architecture)

Representatives of the Doctoral Candidates

• Iman Mattar (PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering)

Head of Administrative Management of the School

• Ana Belén Pina Calvo (Administrator)

Functions

• To act as the School’s Electoral Board and organize and supervise electoral processes.

• Resolve routine matters, acting as a delegated commission of the Management Committee.

• Resolve other matters entrusted to it by the Steering Committee that do not require a qualified majority for the adoption of resolutions. 

Routine Matters for the Standing Committee

The following are considered routine matters:

• Authorizing, on an exceptional basis, the co-supervision of a thesis by a third party, in accordance with the criteria established by the Management Committee.
• Deciding on requests for: temporary withdrawal from a program; changing doctoral programs; the presentation and defense of the thesis outside the academic calendar's teaching periods and/or off the University of Zaragoza premises; or other circumstances presented by doctoral candidates to the doctoral program's Academic Committee and reviewed by said committee.
• Resolving requests to include special distinctions (industrial and international) on the doctoral degree, following a prior review by the doctoral program's Academic Committee.
• Approving the deposit of a doctoral thesis submitted as a compilation of publications, authorized by the thesis supervisor and reviewed by the doctoral program's Academic Committee.
• Authorizing the defense of a completed doctoral thesis, upon the proposal of the doctoral program's Academic Committee.
• Appointing the doctoral thesis evaluation panel, upon the proposal of the doctoral program's Academic Committee; and approving panels comprising five full members and two alternate members that have been previously authorized by the doctoral program's Academic Committee.
• Deciding on requests for exemption from the minimum regulatory timeframe for thesis deposit, endorsed by the academic tutor and the thesis supervisor and reviewed by the doctoral program's Academic Committee.
• Approving the composition of doctoral program Academic Committees, as well as the removal and replacement of their members, with the exception of the doctoral program coordinator, who shall be appointed by the Rector.

Meetings

The Standing Committee meets monthly, usually during the first week of each month.

Agreements of the Standing Committee

Minutes of the Standing Committee