Objectives and competences

The Doctoral Program in Biology and Environment seeks to:

· Train students to become researchers and university professors in science education and specialized techniques within the field of the environment.

· Encourage the training of new university professors in the disciplines associated with the environmental sciences.

· Train students to become PhDs who can contribute to promoting the sustainable management of the natural and human environment and its resources by expanding our understanding of the interactions among the biosphere, ecosystems and human activity, and by developing new technologies, tools and services as they address various global environmental issues through an integrated perspective.

· Allow those graduate students who are interested in this broad and extremely significant field of research to specialize so as to achieve an appropriate professional, scientific and technical development.

With this training, PhDs who graduate from the program are qualified to join multidisciplinary research groups in the field of environmental research, whether at universities, corporate R&D&I units, the public administration, public and private research organizations, etc. PhD graduates acquire the competences that professionals need to scientifically analyze complex data in multidisciplinary contexts.

Competences
According to the provisions of Article 5 of RD 99/2011, doctoral candidates are guaranteed to acquire basic competences, capabilities and/or personal skills, along with competences specific to the program.

• List of competences (.pdf)

According to the provisions of Article 5 of RD 99/2011, the Doctoral Program in Biology and Environment ensures that doctoral candidates will acquire basic competences, capabilities and/or personal skills. They will also acquire certain specific competences associated with their experimental work that forms part of their doctoral dissertation project, depending on the line of research that frames it.