The School Board

Photo of the School Board at a meeting on 12 December 2019

The Board, which is chaired by its director, is the Doctoral School's highest collegial body. The Board ensures that the Doctoral School adequately fulfils all of the functions attributed to it in the current legislation, the UPC Statutes and the Regulations on the Organisation and Functions of the Doctoral School.

Doctoral School Board decisions

The Board acts as a management committee in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.6 of Royal Decree 99/2011, of 28 January, which regulates official doctoral studies.

Functions

To approve the Doctoral School's strategic plan, within the framework of the University's strategic planning.
To sanction the Doctoral School's management report, which is presented by the Doctoral School's director.
To promote actions to foster the Doctoral School's leadership and its strategic plan.
To propose the approval of the Regulations on the Organisation and Functions of the Doctoral School and any amendments thereof to the Governing Council.
To propose the approval of internal regulations on the rights and obligations of doctoral students, tutors and thesis supervisors and the composition and functions of the doctoral programmes' academic committees to the Governing Council.
To propose the academic regulations for doctoral studies and any amendments thereof to the Governing Council.
To approve the document outlining the design and implementation of the quality assurance system for doctoral programmes and monitor its progress.
To propose the approval of the creation, modification and withdrawal of doctoral programmes to the Governing Council.
To propose the regulations on the special doctoral awards to the Governing Council and rule on the corresponding calls.
To regulate the academic committees of the doctoral programmes in accordance with the proposals of the school's directors and within the framework of the University's regulations.
To propose the approval of the creation, modification and withdrawal of the Doctoral School's areas of knowledge to the Governing Council.
To present the proposal for a code of good practice (doctoral charter) or any amendments thereof to the Governing Council for its approval.
To approve the proposal for the annual operating budget and the list of human and material resources needed for it to fulfil its functions for its submission to the Governing Council.
To propose initiatives and aspirations and express an opinion on issues that affect the Doctoral School and its environment.

Composition

Ex officio members:

Dr Cristina Canal, director of the Doctoral School.
Dr Lluís Jofre, deputy director of the Doctoral School.
Dr Jordi Pons, secretary of the Doctoral School, who acts as secretary of the Board.
Ana Canales, head of the Support Service Unit to the Doctoral School
Dr Josep Maria Fort, coordinator of the del Doctoral Programme in Design.
Dr Alberto Abelló, coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme in Information Technologies for Business Intelligence.
Dr Carlos Enrique Alemán, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Polymers and Biopolymers.
Dr Guillem Carabí, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Theory and History of Architecture.
Dr Jasmina Casals, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Mechanical, Fluids and Aerospace Engineering.
Dr Eulalia Planas, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Chemical Process Engineering.
Dr Gonzalo Ramos, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Construction Engineering.
Dr Blanca Roncero, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Textile and Paper Engineering.
Dr Pavel Ryzhakov, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Civil Engineering.
Dr Miguel Cervera, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Structural Analysis.
Dr Anna Pagès, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Architecture, Energy and the Environment.
Dr Olga Muñoz, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Signal Theory and Communications.
Dr Toni Dorado, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Natural Resources and Environment.
Dr. Francisco Javier Martínez De Osés, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Nautical and Marine Engineering and Naval Radio-Electronics.
Dr Martí Rosas, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Sustainability.
Dr Marta Pérez, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Statistics and Operations Research.
Dr Beatriz F. Giraldo, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Biomedical Engineering.
Dr Ana María Lacasta, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Architectural, Building Construction and Urbanism Technology.
Dr Àngela Nebot, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Artificial Intelligence.
Dr Ramón Herrero Simón, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Computational and Applied Physics.
Dr Álvaro Luna, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Electric Energy Systems.
Dr Manel Mateo, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Supply Chain and Operations Management.
Dr Magda Mària, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Architectural Design.
Dr Davide Careglio, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Computer Architecture.
Dr Emilio Jiménez, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Materials Science.
Dr Salvador Gilabert Sanz, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Architectural, Civil and Urban Heritage and Refurbishment of Existing Buildings.
Dr José Rodrigo Miró, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Transport Engineering and Infrastructure.
Dr Jaime Óscar Casas, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Electronic Engineering.
Dr Leandro Navarro, coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme in Distributed Computing.
Dr Carlos David Pérez, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Thermal Engineering.
Dr Sebastià Olivella, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Geotechnical Engineering.
Dr Maria Rubert, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Urbanism.
Dr Marta Casasnellas, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Bioinformatics.
Dr Marianna Garfi, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Environmental Engineering.
Dr José Ignacio Rojas, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Aerospace Science and Technology.
Dr Alberto Ledesma, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics.
Dr Lluïsa Quevedo, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Optical Engineering.
Dr Carlos Marmolejo, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation.
Dr Enric Ventura, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Applied Mathematics.
Dr Vicenç Fernández, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Business Administration and Management (interuniversity)
Dr José María Sallán, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Business Administration and Management
D Xavier Hesselbach, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Network Engineering.
Dr César Mösso, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Marine Sciences.
Dr Guillem Pere Cortés, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Nuclear and Ionising Radiation Engineering.
Dr Carlos Andújar, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Computing.
Dr Vicenç Puig, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Automatic Control, Robotics and Vision.
Dr Roberto Villafáfila, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Electrical Engineering.
Dr Sergio Zlotnik, coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme in Simulation in Engineering and Entrepreneurship Development.
Dr Marc Alier, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in en Engineering, Science and Technology Education.
Dr María Isabel Achaerandio, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Agri-food Technology and Biotechnology.
Dr Verònica Ahufinger, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Photonics.

Elected members:

MªEugènia Miranda, head of the doctoral management unit.