Aims: The main objective is the writing and defence of a doctoral thesis in Nanoscience. During the process, PhD students must acquire a high level of professional skills in various fields, especially in those that require creativity and innovation. It shall provide skills to cope with contexts with little specific information, to find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem, to design, create, develop and launch new and innovative projects, etc. The specific objectives are: to offer research training to graduates and to facilitate their academic, research or professional development; to establish collaborative relationships with high-tech institutions and companies; to promote cooperation between universities to develop a research profile in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology sought by companies committed to R&D&I and by prestigious groups of scientific and technological research.

Description:

In recent years, certain scientific fields, such as supramolecular chemistry, molecular biology, or surface and low-temperature physics have achieved a remarkable development in our country. Research groups that have obtained an excellent competitive position at international level in an area that is already known as Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and is already strategic in National and International Programmes have been formed.

In these areas, physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians and engineers work on obtaining, manipulating, organising, studying and exploiting the properties of nano-sized objects. Maintaining a competitive position in Nanoscience requires a high level of competence, specialisation and an adequate multidisciplinary training of the researcher.

This doctoral programme involves groups of recognised prestige from the Departments of Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Applied Physics of the universities of Valencia (UV), Alicante (UA), La Laguna (ULL) and Castilla la Mancha (UCLM), which gives it the multidisciplinary character and critical size needed to become a national benchmark in this strategic area. Most of these groups are integrated in university research institutes such as the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) of the UV; the Institute of Materials (IUMA) of the UA; the University Institute of Advanced Studies in Atomic, Molecular and Photonic Physics (IUDEA) of the ULL and the Institute of Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials (INAMol) of the UCLM.

This doctoral programme in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology was created in 2007 and received, by the Ministry of Education, the Quality Award in October 2008 (Reference MCD2008-00082) and the Excellence Mention in October 2011 (Reference MEE2011-00194).

The official Doctoral Programme in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is registered in the RUCT with code 5601462.

The training period of the PhD is the Official Master’s degree in Molecular Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.