The Doctoral Programme Committee assignes to each PhD student a supervisor and one or more co-supervisors.

The supervisor and co-supervisor/s may be selected from outside the Doctoral Programme Committee, notwithstanding that at least one of them must be an academic. 

The task of the supervisor and co-supervisor (s) is to follow the candidate's research progress, to supervise the writing of the thesis, to counsel him/her in the choice of academic or professional career.