The Dissertation Committee
The Dissertation Committee is appointed by the Board of Doctoral Education to oversee compliance with the examination rules and to ensure the highest possible quality of theses published by Karolinska Institutet.
Applications to defend a thesis or hold a licentiate seminar are to be submitted to the Dissertation Committee as instructed on this website or the various forms.
Meeting dates
The defence is to be held within the specified dates. Please note that the earliest possible date is stated strictly without margins either way. We recommend that you add a week or two to allow for unforeseen eventualities.
Spring Semester 2018
| Meeting | Deadline | Earliest possible date of defence |
| 2018-01-09 | 2017-12-11 | 2018-03-16 |
| 2018-01-22 | 2018-01-08 | 2018-03-29 |
| 2018-02-06 | 2018-01-23 | 2018-04-13 |
| 2018-02-19 | 2018-02-05 | 2018-04-27 |
| 2018-03-06 | 2018-02-20 | 2018-05-11 |
| 2018-03-19 | 2018-03-05 | 2018-05-25 |
| 2018-04-10 | 2018-03-22 | 2018-06-15 |
| 2018-04-23 | 2018-04-09 | 2018-08-17 |
| 2018-05-07 | 2018-04-19 | 2018-08-31 |
| 2018-05-21 | 2018-05-03 | 2018-09-14 |
| 2018-06-05 | 2018-05-22 | 2018-09-28 |
Defence dates
- Spring Semester 2018: 8 January - 20 June
- Autumn Semester 2018: 13 August - 19 December
Dissertation Committee members
Chairperson
- Erik Sundström
- Lena Palmberg
Other members
- Andrej Weintraub
- Mia von Euler
- Dagmar Galter
- Claes Frostell
- Ulrika Ådén
- Per-Arne Lönnqvist
- Adnane Achour
- Maria Eriksson
- Lena Wettergren
- Claudia Lampic
- Margaret Sällberg Chen
Student representatives
- Simone Setterberg
- Iuliia Savchuk
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