According to the provisions of the Code of Doctoral Studies and of its own Regulation, the Council for Doctoral Studies of DJUG (CSUD-UDJG) ensures the operational management of the institution in charge with organizing university PhD studies (henceforth, the Organizing Institution of University Doctoral Studies within “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati) by virtue of the following decisional competences:

• Strategy-making for the Organizing Institution of University Doctoral Studies within DJUG;
• Drafting of the Regulations for the doctoral studies;
• Approval of the foundation/dissolution of the doctoral schools and of the affiliation of the scientific advisors to a doctoral school of the Organizing Institution of University Doctoral Studies;
• Drafting of the proposals for allotting the budgetary allotment and the income from the tuition fees for funding the PhD study programmes;
• Making proposals regarding the expenses of the doctoral activities pursued in DJUG
• Coordinating partnerships with other institutions in charge with organizing PhD studies and other international institutions;
• Fulfilling other responsibilities provisioned by the Regulation.

First and last name	Position / Contact details	Faculty
Professor PhD Eugen-Victor-Cristian RUSU	Vice-rector in charge with the doctoral activities eugen.rusu @ugal.ro	Faculty of Engineering
Professor PhD Gabriela-Elena BAHRIM	Vice-rector in charge with the scientific research activity gabriela.bahrim @ugal.ro	Faculty of Food Science and Engineering
Professor PhD Lidia BENEA	Member lidia.benea @ugal.ro	Faculty of Engineering
Professor PhD Anamaria CIUBARĂ	Member	Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
Professor PhD Cătălin FETECĂU	Member catalin.fetecau @ugal.ro	Faculty of Engineering
Professor PhD Puiu-Lucian GEORGESCU	President of the University Senate lucian.georgescu @ugal.ro	Faculty of Sciences and Environment
Professor PhD Silviu-Dan LUPAȘCU	Coordinator in the field of History	Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology
Professor PhD  Doinița-Marcela MILEA	Coordinator in the field of Philology	Faculty of Letters
Professor PhD Luminița MORARU	Coordinator in the field of Industrial engineering luminita.moraru @ugal.ro	Faculty of Sciences and Environment
Professor PhD Gabriela RÂPEANU	Coordinator in the field of Industrial engineering, Food product engineering and Biotechnologies gabriela.rapeanu @ugal.ro	Faculty of Food Science and Engineering
Professor PhD Bart VAN DER BRUGGEN	Honorary member	Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Professor PhD  Gerassimos A. ATHANASSOULIS	Honorary member	National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Professor PhD Polidor-Paul BRATU	Honorary member	Member of the Technical Sciences Academy of Romania
Professor PhD Victor CRISTEA	Honorary member	Fellow member of the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences Gheorghe Ionescu Șișești