EUA Council for Doctoral Education

EUA-CDE Steering Committee welcomes two new members

The EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of its Steering Committee:

- Ann MacPhail, Associate Vice-President of the Doctoral College, University of Limerick, Ireland

- Massimiliano Zattin, Vice-Rector for Postgraduate and Doctoral Programmes, University of Padova, Italy

Their term started on 1 May 2024. The new members replace Paolo Biscari from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, and Barbara Dooley from University College Dublin, Ireland, who stepped down at the end of their term in the Committee.

The new composition of the EUA-CDE Steering Committee will be as follows:

-  Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela, former Head of the Doctoral School and Professor of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (Chair)

-  Åse Gornitzka, Pro-Rector at the University of Oslo, Norway

-  Irma Grdzelidze, Associate Professor and former Head of Quality Assurance Service, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia

-  Peter Hanenberg, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

-  Ann MacPhail, Associate Vice-President of the Doctoral College, University of Limerick, Ireland

-  Pirjo Nikander, Research Director of the Doctoral School, Tampere University, Finland

-  Andrei Terian-Dan, Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Internationalisation, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

-  Maurizio Tira, Full Professor and former Rector, University of Brescia, Italy (ex-officio EUA Board member)

-  Karin van Wingerde, Director, Graduate School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

-  Massimiliano Zattin, Vice-Rector for Postgraduate and Doctoral Programmes, University of Padova, Italy.