[staff-physics-and-astronomy-HL-UHD-UD] New departmental policies on PhD trajectories - please provide feedback

[Juan Rojo]

Dear colleagues,

As you know and we have discussed in several occasions recently 
(retreat, staff lunch, SRM) the excessive duration of PhD thesis our 
Department represents a long-standing problem since many years.

Addressing this problem is hence rather urgent for several reasons, and 
the upcoming research visitation of our department in February 2026 only 
adds to the urgency of having a clear action plan for this.

With this motivation, we have collected input from all stakeholders 
(PIs, PhDCAs, PhD Council) and prepared a new set of departmental 
policies on PhD trajectories. Please finds attached the current draft 
version.

Please provide feedback (Jordi will collect it) by Friday december 5th. 
We aim to produce a final version before the Christmas holidays.

Many thanks in advance,

best,
Juan

PD This document will also be circulated among the PhD candidates, and 
the PhD Council will collect their feedback.

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Prof. Dr. Juan Rojo
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Faculty of Science, VU Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081, 1081HV Amsterdam
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Nikhef Theory Group, Science Park 105,
1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Webpage: http://www.juanrojo.com/
Zoom: https://vu-live.zoom.us/my/juanrojo
E-mail: j.rojo at vu.nl
         j.rojo at nikhef.nl
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