Once the doctoral candidate has been admitted to the program and has successfully completed the enrolment process, he or she will be assigned a Advisory Committee by the Academic Committee of the Program and will need to submit a Research Plan to the Advisory Committee, with the approval of his or her thesis supervisor.

The Research Plan must include the following: the student’s personal details, the name of his or her supervisor and the tutor if required, the research line of his or her thesis, a title proposal, a short description of the subject of the project, the research objectives, the project methodology, the project schedule and, if applicable, a brief mention of any possible preliminary results that may serve to illustrate the line of research the student intends to continue. This plan must be presented to the Advisory Committee during the months of January or May, depending on whether the student was admitted in autumn or spring, respectively.

At the next stage, the Advisory Committee will issue a brief report on the suitability of the proposed research plan. If the report is favourable, the student must deliver this report to the Secretary of the Department of Organic Chemistry with an application form, which can be obtained from the Secretary’s Office at the Faculty of Chemistry. This application must be previosuly presented to the Official Register of the Faculty of Chemistry. For UNESCO codes, see Fields and Subjects.

In view of the report of the Advisory Committee and the request submitted, the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Program will sign the application and the Secretary will open a personalized activity folder that will record all training activities undertaken by the student. The doctoral candidate will deliver the application form duly signed to the Secretary’s Office of the Faculty of Chemistry. The PhD begins at this point.

Finally, the doctoral candidate will deliver to the Secretary’s Office of the Program a document of confidentiality signed by every member of the Advisory Committee.

If the report is negative, the student has a period of six months in which to rewrite it in accordance with the instructions and advice provided by the Advisory Committee.