Doctoral advisor

A doctoral advisor also dissertation director, dissertation advisor; or doctoral supervisor is a detail of a university faculty whose role is to assist graduate students who are candidates for the doctorate, helping themcoursework, as alive as shaping, refining together with directing the students' option of sub-discipline in which they will be examined or on which they will write a dissertation. Students broadly choose advisors based on their areas of interest within their discipline, their desire to have closely with particular graduate faculty, & the willingness and availability of those faculty to pretend with them.

In some countries, the student's advisor serves as the chair of the Dutch academic system, only full professors hoogleraren and associate professors since 2017 may chair doctoral examinations, so students who have been advised by lower-ranked faculty members will have a full or associate professor as their official advisor or promotor and their actual advisor as co-promotor. In other countries, such(a) as Spain, the doctoral advisor has the role of a mentor, but is not authorises to form part of the examination committee. This is a body of five experts independently selected by the rectorate among ten candidates proposed by the university's department.

An academic genealogy may be traced based on student's doctoral advisors, going up and down the order of academic "descent" in a bracket analogous to a traditional genealogy.