Doctoral Programme in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

• Summary
• Structure
• Organisation
• Competencies
• Admission
• Research lines
• Quality

Basic competences:

1. Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
2. Ability to conceive, design or create, implement and adopt a substantial research or creative process.
3. Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
4. Ability to carry out critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
5. 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.
6. Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society. 

Personal capacities and skills:

1. Dealing with contexts in which there is little specific information.
2. Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.
3. Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
4. Work both in a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
5. Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgements with limited information.
6. Intellectual critique and defence of solutions.

Other competences:

1. Ability to conceive and write original scientific articles in their area of specialisation in Molecular Nanoscience.
2. Ability to interact actively with the main groups and centres working in Europe on the molecular aspects of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.