BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS

Doctoral students will be able to:

• Develop systematic understanding of a field of study and master the research skills and methods related to that field.

• Conceive, design, create and implement a substantial research process or process of creation.

• Contribute to the expansion of the boundaries of knowledge through original research.

• Critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise new and complex ideas.

• Communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society at large about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.

• Foster — in academic and professional contexts — scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances within a knowledge-based society.

PERSONAL ABILITIES AND SKILLS

• Make progress in contexts where there is little specific information.

• Identify the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem.

• Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.

• Work both in a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.

• Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity, and formulate judgments with limited information.

• Critique and defend solutions in an intellectual way.

OTHER SKILLS

• Understand the current limits of knowledge in the field of physics and its subfields.

• Rigorously understand the methodology for processing and presenting data, minimising mistakes.

• Know the steps necessary in the theoretical and experimental fields to advance in their research topic.

• Consistently evaluate the originality and novelty of their research advances, avoiding partial advances based on other people’s work.

• Critique their own results and avoid publishing or submitting a piece of work if they are unsure about any aspect of it.