How to Find a Perfect Supervisor

As you know all the details and specifics of your scientific work better, it will be much more time- and effort-saving if you start searching a suitable supervisor yourself. From our part, we will provide you with all the searching tools and facilitate initial contacts with your preferable research supervisor(s).

There are two main ways to find a research supervisor:

1. You can check our brochure with Doctoral programs.
2. You can visit our Research Portal. To find a supervisor at the portal you need to follow several steps.

Step 1.

Go to URFU Research Portal: https://science.urfu.ru/en/

Step 2.

Put the keywords (“fingerprints”) of your research topic into a search box.

In the results, you will see all the articles and projects related to this topic, and also all professors who work in that field*.

*Please note that not every professor is able to accept a PhD student. But if you have chosen one of those who are not currently available, do not worry, because at least we will know your topic of interest and will be able to help you with further search.

Step 3.

Go to the profile of the research supervisor. In his/her profile you will see all the needed information:

• education and academic qualifications
• fingerprint (the key subjects of interest of the professor)
• profiles in research databases (e.g. Scopus, Web of Science)
• the list of projects, publications (papers) and attended conferences
• similar profiles (profiles of other UrFU professors who work on a similar topic)
• collaboration with other universities and investigators
• links to media sources
  
  

Step 4.

Kindly send your CV, research proposal and list of publications along with the list of the supervisors you would like to work with to our email, postgrad@urfu.ru.

In the subject of the email, please put “Finding a supervisor” and your full name.