Objectives and competences

Objectives:

• To provide graduates with a deep knowledge of those theoretical-practical aspects directly related to the scientific and technical fields that are the object of research in each line so that they constitute a solid point of support for the initiation to research.

• Develop the necessary skills to simulate, computationally (programming or specific software) or on the laboratory, analyze and criticize those specific problems that are the object of the research of the PhD student.

• To provide students with a set of tools and skills that allow them to interpret, criticize and elaborate scientific documentation, respecting the principles of equality and professional ethics.

• To develop the necessary skills to enable student to integrate into interdisciplinary and international research teams.

• To train, in a rigorous way, in those advanced aspects related to the field of research where the student will develop its doctoral thesis .

• To develop the skills that will enable the student systematic understanding of a field of study, as well as its communication in oral and written form to the academic community.

Competencies:

BASICS

• Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.

• Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.

• Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.

• Ability to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.

• Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.

• Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a society based on knowledge.

PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.

• Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.

• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.

• Work both in a team and autonomously in an international context or multidisciplinary.

• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgements with limited information.

• Intellectual critique and defence of solutions.