Objectives and competences

The doctoral program in Complex Systems focuses on specific complex systems, but using methods normally common to the rest of complex systems, so that graduates have the capacity to tackle problems that are more general to the specific ones they have studied in their doctoral dissertation.

Within the academic community, Complex Systems are associated to areas such as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Within the Spanish Royal Society of Physics there is a Specialized group , constituted by more than 65 researchers, in which the department involved in the program has actively participated since its foundation (its first president, Dr. Carlos Pérez-García, was Full Professor of the University of Navarra). At the international level there is also a section in the European Physical Society (EPS), as well as in the American Physical Society (APS). The issue of foreign groups whose research is framed in the so-called "Complex Systems" and directly linked to Physics is very large. Therefore, it is important to be able to train researchers to acquire competences in the development and use of tools (eminently experimental) within the area of Complex Systems.

The competences acquired by the graduates of this proposed doctoral program programme cover the need for professionals capable of scientifically analysing complex data in multidisciplinary situations, fulfilling one of the University's strategic objectives in research and development+i. The main orientation of the programme is complemented by other strategic lines of the University of Navarra in which research is carried out at department of Physics and Applied Mathematics. To sum up, the interest that some foreign and international organisations have in the field of "Complex Systems" justifies, in scientific and academic terms, the existence of a programme of these characteristics at the University of Navarra.

These qualifications enable PhD graduates from the programme to join multidisciplinary research groups in the broad and growing field of complex systems. It should be noted that, from a professional point of view, this doctoral program has a methodological appeal, given that the skills acquired are transferable and usable in such current fields as "econophysics", "ecophysics", "sociophysics", communication networks (Internet, transport of goods, ...) and biochemical networks, among many other disciplines of wide interest.

Competences

agreement In accordance with the provisions of article 5 of RD 99/2011, the acquisition by PhD student of the basic competences, personal abilities and/or skills and specific competences of the Programme is guaranteed.

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The doctoral program in Complex Systems, of agreement with what is established in art. 5 of RD 99/2011, guarantees the acquisition by the PhD student of basic competences, capacities and/or personal skills and, depending on the Line of research in which their project of doctoral dissertation is framed, they must also acquire some of the specific competences associated with the development of the experimental work in which the project of thesis of the PhD student is framed.