Admission criteria
Profile for admission
Students who wish to access this programme should ideally have studied and acquired the skills, abilities and knowledge that come with the University Master’s Degree in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling.
Candidates who have not studied the aforementioned master’s degree, but who do have an official university master’s degree in Chemistry, Physics, Material Sciences or Biochemistry may be considered for admission to this doctoral programme. In these cases, it may be necessary for said candidates to complete additional training at the request of the doctorate directors, co-directors or the Academic Commission.
A sufficient level of English (level B2) is highly recommended.
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Procedure for assigning a faculty member as a doctoral thesis tutor and director
Once a student has been accepted onto the doctoral programme, the Academic Commission will assign them a tutor from among the faculty at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) participating in the programme, who will then be responsible for ensuring good interaction with the Academic Commission and adapting the training and research activities to the principles established by the programme and the Doctorate School.
Within three months of enrolment, the Academic Commission will assign each student a thesis director from among the faculty participating in the programme. The director may or may or not be the same person as the tutor, and will be responsible for guiding and ensuring the consistency of the training and research tasks, and guaranteeing that the topic of the thesis have an impact and make a novel contribution to the field. They are also responsible for guiding the thesis plan and adapting it, if required, to other projects and activities in which the PhD student is involved.
If the director is not a member of the faculty at the UPV/EHU, the tutor will act as a liaison.
Doctoral theses may also be co-directed, and the second co-director may or may not be a member of the DP. New tutors or directors may be assigned at any moment during the thesis.
For more information, see the procedures and rules.