GOVERMENT
Director: Dr. Romi Pena Subirà
Responsabilities:
- To represent the School.
- To exercise overall leadership of the School.
- To convene and chair the School’s Management Comm
- ittee and its Standing Committee.
- To lead and coordinate the School’s activities.
- To oversee the School’s academic, administrative and budgetary management.
- To implement and ensure compliance with the resolutions of the Management Committee.
- To propose to the Rector the appointment and dismissal of the Deputy Director, the Secretary of the School, and the Coordinators of the doctoral programmes.
- To propose the School’s strategic lines of action to the Management Committee.
- To ensure the implementation, development and effective operation of the School’s quality assurance systems.
- To perform all other duties assigned by legislation, the Statutes and their implementing regulations, including those not expressly assigned to other governing bodies of the School.
Vice-Director: Dr. Judith Borràs Andrés
Responsabilities:
- To support the Director in the performance of their duties.
- To lead and coordinate the areas within their remit.
- To coordinate the School’s quality assurance activities.
- To perform duties delegated by the Director.
- To deputise for the Director in the event of a vacancy, absence or illness.
- To perform any other duties arising from the position.
Academic Secretary: Dr. Joan Blanco Blanco
Responsabilities:
- To ensure the formal and substantive legality of the proceedings of the Management Committee, ensuring compliance with the procedures and rules governing its constitution and decision-making.
- To support the Director of the School in the performance of their duties and to carry out such functions as may be assigned to them.
- To act as Secretary to the Management Committee and the Standing Committee.
- To draw up and keep the minutes of the meetings of the Management Committee and the Standing Committee, and to certify the resolutions recorded therein.
- To perform any other duties arising from the position.
Director: Dr. Romi Pena Subirà
Vice-director: Dr. Judith Borràs Andrés
Academic Secretary: Dr. Joan Blanco Blanco
Doctoral Programe's coordinators:
Dr. Sonia Marín Sillué
Dr. Carolina Villacampa Estiarte
Dr. Jorge Moya Higueras
Dr. Josu González Alday
Dr. Francesc Xavier Solsona Tehas
Dr. Esther Pujolras Noguer
Dr. Joaquim Reverter Masia
Dr. Carlos Cantero Martínez
2 representatives from external organizations:
Dr. Núria Bahi Pla, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB) Lleida
Dr. Rosario Torres Sanchis, Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) Lleida
1 PhD Student:
Ms. Laura Segarra-Sanchez
1 representative from the administrative staff:
Ms. Tatiana Hidalgo Castañeda
Responsabilities:
- To draw up the School’s Regulations.
- To draw up the academic regulations governing doctoral studies and submit them to the Governing Council.
- To approve the School’s quality policy, in accordance with that of the University.
- To draw up the mediation and conflict-resolution procedure in the area of doctoral studies.
- To draw up the School’s Code of Good Practice.
- To prepare annually the call for applications for, and the decision awarding, the Extraordinary Doctoral Awards.
- To coordinate the planning and organisation of the transversal training activities offered to doctoral students.
- To approve annually the doctoral studies management calendar.
- To approve the appointment and termination of members of the Academic Committees of the doctoral programmes.
- To define the policy for collaboration with other entities.
- To allocate the School’s budget.
- To agree on the delegation of powers to the Standing Committee, except for those relating to the approval of regulations, plans, policies or strategic documents, and those which may not be delegated under the applicable legislation.
- To perform the functions of the School’s Quality Committee.
- To perform any other duties assigned to it under the regulations in force.
President: Dr. Romi Pena Subirà
Secretary: Dr. Joan Blanco Blanco
Member: Dr. Esther Pujolras Noguer
The Standing Committee is the permanent representative body of the Steering Committee and exercises the functions expressly delegated to it by the latter.
Doctoral Program in Agricultural and Food Science and Technology
Coordinador: Dr. Sonia Marín Sillué - ed.ctaa@udl.cat
3 members:
Dr. Roxana Savin Parisier
Dr. Jose Miguel Soriano Soriano
Dr. Ahmad Reza Seradj Pakniyatjahromi
1 PhD: Ms. Erika Vilamajó Farré
Doctoral Program in Law and Business Administration
Coordinator: Dr. Carolina Villacampa Estiarte - ed.dae@udl.cat
3 members:
Dr. Paloma de Barrón Arniches
Dr. Berta Ferrer Rosell
Dr. Jordi Moreno Gené
1 PhD: Mr. Wael Zokri Rossi
Doctoral Program in Education, Society and Quality of Life
Coordinator: Dr. Jorge Moya Higueras - ed.esqv@udl.cat
3 members:
Dra. Carolina Blavia Galindo
Dra. Montserrat Casanovas Català
Dra. Laia Cutillas Alberich
1 PhD: Ms. Núria Nicolau Torrent
Doctoral Program in Engineering and Information Technologies
Coordinator: Dr. Francesc X. Solsona Tehas - ed.eti@udl.cat
3 members:
Dr. Luisa Fernanda Cabeza Fabra
Dr. Lluís Miquel Pla Aragonés
Dr. Jordi Palacín Roca
1 PhD: Ms. Daylen Yara Font Prieur
Doctoral Program in Forestry and Natural Environmental Management
Coordinator: Dr. Josu González Alday - ed.gfmn@udl.cat
3 members:
Dr. Lluis Coll Mir
Dr. Damià Vericat Querol
Dr. Aitor Ameztegui González
1 PhD: Mr. Miguel Ángel Blanco Rodríguez
Doctoral Program in Health
Coordinator: Dr. Joan Blanco Blanco - ed.salut@udl.cat
3 members:
Dr. Marta Llovera Tomas
Dr. José Carlos Enrique Serrano Casasola
Dr. Oriol Yuguero Torres
1 PhD: Ms. Ester Andreu Mayor
Doctoral Program in Territory, Heritage and Culture
Coordinator: Dr. Esther Pujolras Noguer - ed.tpc@udl.cat
3 members:
Dr. Jordi Malé Pegueroles
Dr. Cristina Solé Castells
Dr. Albert Roca Álvarez
1 PhD: Ms. Alba Castellano Aragonés
Doctoral Program in Physical Activity and Sport
Coordinator: Dr. Joaquim Reverter Masia (acting for Dr. Manel Portero Otín)
3 members:
Dr. Estela Inés Farías Torbidoni
Dr. Antoni Planas Anzano
Dr. Carlota Torrents Martin
1 PhD: Ms. Cristina Calvo Estelrich
Responsabilities
- To organise, coordinate, define and update the doctoral programme.
- To be responsible for the definition, updating, quality assurance and coordination of the programme, as well as for monitoring the progress of the research.
- To ensure the proper implementation of the training and research activities specified in the doctoral programme.
- To establish the admission criteria for selecting and admitting doctoral candidates to the programme, and to define any relevant specific supplementary training requirements, in accordance with the guidelines of the Doctoral School.
- To appoint supervisors and thesis directors for doctoral candidates, and to amend such appointments where justified.
- To propose the programme’s offer of specific training activities.
- To authorise part-time doctoral study.
- To assess annually each student’s research plan and activities document.
- To authorise extensions requested by doctoral candidates.
- To authorise requests for temporary leave for personal reasons and to maintain records of, and monitor, students on leave due to illness, pregnancy or other circumstances provided for in the applicable regulations.
- To determine students’ continuation in the doctoral programme, in accordance with the verification report and the Doctoral School’s regulations.
- To authorise research stays outside Spain that are directly related to the research plan.
- To determine applications for thesis co-supervision under cotutelle agreements.
- To determine applications for the submission of doctoral theses for examination.
- To determine applications to extend the embargo period on the publication of doctoral theses.
- To determine all matters arising in connection with the implementation of the programme.
- To perform any other duties assigned to them under general legislation or the regulations of the University of Lleida