Doctoral school

1. Additional requirement to the VU Amsterdam Doctorate Regulations (Article 16, Conditions)

The thesis contains the following:

• At least four chapters describing original scientific research, in which in three chapters the PhD candidate as the responsible researcher takes responsibility for all elements of the research, which fact will be made visible in their position as first author (including shared first author roles)
• Of these chapters, at least two have undergone the whole submission cycle, including rebuttals, in peer reviewed journals. Committee members must be informed of the status of these articles by presentation of the publication details or the editorial decision letter
• The thesis may only include a limited number of manuscripts for which the PhD candidate does not act as first author. In these cases, the substantial contribution of the PhD candidate to the research reported must be evident to the committee members

2. Addition to the VU Amsterdam Doctorate Regulations (article 15)

The thesis must contain a portfolio of education (guideline 30 EC)

• Title page (Art. 19.1 VU PhD regulations)
• On the next page: names of the members of the supervising team, followed by the members of the doctorate committee (Art. 19.2 VU PhD regulations)
• Name of any organization/person from outside the university that (partly) supported the doctoral research >> on the verso of the page with the names of the supervisors and assessors (note: commercial expressions are not allowed!!) (Art. 19.3 VU PhD regulations)
• An introductory or concluding chapter (Art. 16.4 VU PhD regulations)
• Page with reference list, providing an overview of the authors of each article and an explanation of the co-authors' contributions (Art. 16.5 VU PhD regulations)
• Portfolio (mandatory by the Executive Board; faculty regulation)
• An abstract in English (which is also the language of the dissertation); optionally, an abstract in Dutch, but this is not mandatory (Art. 18.2 and 3 VU PhD regulations)
• Acknowledgments >> not mandatory
• Something about yourself >> not mandatory

• The content of the manuscript must be final and complete; no changes are allowed after the manuscript has been submitted for assessment by the Doctorate Committee. The only exceptions are corrections to the layout and design, typing errors, publishing details, ISBN and acknowledgements
• The manuscript must be submitted as a PDF:
  Without cover page and acknowledgements; Without the academic title page (this needs to be uploaded in Hora Finita, see Title Page); With summaries in English and/or in Dutch: If the dissertation is written in Dutch, then a summary in Dutch and an English translation of the title and summary of the contents will be appended to the dissertation. If the dissertation is written in English, then an English summary of the contents must be appended to the dissertation (and in Dutch (not mandatory)). The content of the summaries in different languages must be identical