Objectives and competences

The doctoral program at "Food, Physiology and Health"is proposed:

-To train new researchers and prepare teams that can successfully tackle the challenge that Food Science and Nutrition and their relationship with Health represent.

-To promote the training of new university teachers in the disciplines related to these sciences.

-To specialise those postgraduates who are interested in this broad and extremely important field of research for their professional, scientific and technical development development .

-To train doctors who can contribute to the development of new safe and healthy food products and promote an optimal nutrition for people at different stages of life.

These qualifications enable PhD graduates from the Programme to join multidisciplinary research groups within the complex field of Nutrition, Food and Health, Nutrition Institutes both at the University and in R&D&I units of the Food Industry, in Public and Private Research Bodies, Food Safety Agencies, in research units of Hospital Centres, etc. It is also worth mentioning the large number of food industries of various kinds in our region that have been developing their teams at research and development with, among others, doctors trained in the field of this doctoral program.

Competences
agreement The doctoral program in Food, Physiology and Health, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of Royal Decree 99/2011 of 28 January (BOE of 10 February 2011), guarantees the acquisition by the PhD student of the following basic competences as well as those listed in the MECES (framework Spanish Qualifications for Higher Education):

- List of competences (.pdf)