EUA Council for Doctoral Education

Chair of the EUA-CDE Steering Committee. Peter Hanenberg is Professor for German and Culture Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) in Lisbon, Vice-Rector for Research and Doctoral education and Director of CADOS, Católica Doctoral School. Between 2016 and 2019 he served as a Vice-Dean of the Faculty for Human Sciences at UCP. He was Director of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) at UCP from 2012 to 2020. His research focuses on the intersection of Cognition and Culture and on the literary representation of the Idea of Europe. Bringing together doctoral education, research excellence and the dynamics of innovation is a landmark of his academic interests.

Irma Grdzelidze is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences  at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Dr. Grdzelidze is the founder of Quality Assurance Thematic Working Group of Georgia. She is a member of the Advisory Board for Georgian NQF. She has been a Higher Education Reform Expert in the EU-funded SPHERE initiative  since 2015 and an expert for DAAD Bologna Hub Peer support since 2020. Between 2018 and 2023 she served as  Head of Quality Assurance Service at Tbilisi State University. 

Professor Andrei Terian-Dan is Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Internationalisation at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania (2020–). As of 2016, he is a member of the National Council for Attesting Academic Titles, Degrees, and Certificates (CNATDCU), the accreditation body for doctoral studies in Romania. His area of expertise includes the history of modern Romanian literature, cultural theory, comparative and world literature. He is Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant TRANSHIROL (“A Transnational History of Romanian Literature”).

Karin van Wingerde holds a chair in Corporate Crime and Governance at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She earned her doctorate in Criminology in 2012 at Erasmus School of Law. Her research is situated at the intersection of regulation, governance, and compliance and addresses the interplay between various public, private, and hybrid modes of governance and corporate, white-collar, and organized crime and harm. Between 2014 and 2019 she was Dean of Education of the doctoral programme at Erasmus School of Law. Since 2021 she is Director of Erasmus Graduate School of Law.

Maurizio Tira is Full Professor of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Brescia, member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Being involved in the most important association of planners in his country, he acted as Rector of the University of Brescia from 2016 until 2022, being member of the Board of the Italian Rectors’ Conference and Delegate for international affairs.

He participated in several EU projects and he has been member of numerous committees at the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, the EU and the OECD-ITF. He is President of GARR, the network dedicated to the Italian research community.

Ann MacPhail is Associate Vice President of the Doctoral College at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Ann was previously Assistant Dean Research and Head of an academic department at the University of Limerick. Ann’s research revolves around (physical education) teacher education professional development and learning communities, instructional alignment and curriculum. Ann maintains a commitment to supervising doctoral candidates and has more recently established a research agenda across the university that captures the experiences of doctoral candidates.

Massimiliano Zattin has been a Full Professor at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua since 2015. Over the past ten years, he has been involved in governance roles such as Director of the Doctoral School in Earth Sciences and member of the Academic Senate. Since 2021, he has been appointed as Vice-Rector for Postgraduate and Doctoral Programmes. His main research interests include the quantification of geological processes and, in particular, the relationships between tectonics, erosion, and climate, with significant contributions to understanding orogenic processes.

John Creemers holds an MSc in Chemistry from Radboud University Nijmegen (NL) and a PhD in Medical Sciences from KU Leuven (Belgium). He has been postdoc at the University of Cambridge (UK) and Visiting Professor at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes (Denver, USA). Currently he is Professor at the Department of Human Genetics (KU Leuven). He has been Director of the Doctoral School of Biomedical Sciences and chair of the Flemish Interuniversity Council (VLIR) working group Doctoral Schools. Currently, he is president of the Organisation of PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the European System, ORPHEUS.

Tanja Storsul is Pro-Rector for Research and Development at Oslo Metropolitan University. She heads Universities Norway’s strategic unit for research and she is chair of The Research Council of Norway’s portfolio board for the research system, both with strategic responsibilities for doctoral education and recruitment. Storsul holds a doctoral degree in Media studies and was previously Professor and Head of Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. She has also been Director of Institute for Social Research, an independent research institute in Oslo. Her research interests include technology and society, media policy and how new technologies affect media markets.

Krzysztof Walkowiak has been a Full Professor at the Department of Systems and Computer Networks, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, since 2017. Over the past twelve years, Krzysztof has held various governance roles in doctoral education. Since 2020, Krzysztof has served as Dean of the Doctoral School at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. In 2021, Krzysztof became a member of the Steering Committee of the Polish Association of Doctoral Schools. His research interests include network optimization, the application of machine learning to networking, optical networks, 5G/6G systems, intent-based networking, and TinyML.