PhD

Doctoral Programme in Bioscience Engineering

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 481 / Year(s) Foreign:$ 481 / Year(s) Deadline: Mar 1, 2025
StudyQA ranking:1467 Duration:4 years

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The aim of doctoral training is to bring doctoral researchers to an advanced level of creative and independent thinking and acting. As such, the doctoral programme prepares for a career in frontier research and education or for high-level roles in professional sectors where deep rigorous analysis is required. To realize this purpose, doctoral training focuses on personal development in four complementary domains:

  • Professional expertise: knowledge of the discipline, analytic and synthetic mind set, creativity, out of the box attitude;
  • Research management: project management and financing, respecting professional and ethical standards;
  • Personal effectiveness: self-management, time management, motivation, problem solving, career planning;
  • Impact and influence: collaboration, communication, networking, leadership.

Doctoral training takes first and foremost place in the research group or laboratory via informal and formal meetings with the supervisor and peer researchers. This research-based training is complemented by more structured training activities organized by the departments, the research centres and the doctoral school. PhD researchers are expected to complete the PhD within 4 years.
The doctoral training consists of three components:

  • Development of essential research skills by carrying out an individual research project resulting in high-quality scientific output.
  • Thematic training comprising advanced courses, invited lectures, journal clubs and doctoral seminars focused on a specific scientific topic;
  • Training and development of personal skills that are relevant for the successful completion of the PhD and which prepare the PhD researcher for a wide range of career possibilities.

Requirements

  • The applicant should either hold a master's degree that is relevant with respect to the PhD degree that is envisaged (or an equivalent degree of higher education) and have distinguished himself/herself, either during his/her academic training or in his/her professional life, as is evident from high-quality scientific publications;
  • Or have passed the pre-doctoral examination.
  • Students should submit a satisfactory score on an internationally recognized test of English language proficiency: TOEFL (minimum score 575 paper-based, 233 computer-based, 90 internet-based), IELTS (minimum score 7). No other proficiency tests will be accepted.
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