Doctoral School of Geosciences
    Duration36 month(s)
    Tuition Fee
    EUR 1,452 / Year
    Apply DateNovember 30, 2021
    Next IntakeOctober 1, 2022

    Doctoral School of Geosciences

    About

    Overview As you are part of the scientific community at the doctoral school, you have the opportunity to talk to teachers, researchers and other students about your progress and results at interdisciplinary seminars and workshops. In addition, your supervisor will support you in writing your dissertation by providing both their expertise and contacts in the focus area.Focus AreasDepending on the subject of your dissertation, you are assigned to either the Class of Earth Sciences or the Class of Geodesy.Research activities at Doctoral School of GeosciencesAs an inter-faculty and inter-university platform, the Class of Earth Sciences offers an excellent environment for doing research in the fields ofnatural processes of movement in the interior and on the surface of the earth,the material and chemical structure and the distribution and cycling of chemical elements and their isotopes in minerals, rocks, soils, water, the atmosphere and the biosphere,the properties of natural minerals and rocks and their interactions with aqueous solutions, their conditions of formation and reaction mechanisms,the applicability of multi-proxy approaches to (palaeo-) environmental research,biological evolution of changing biodiversity patterns and interactions between organisms and their environment over the course of earth history,physical, chemical and microbiological processes in soils and groundwater, and their movements, andgeological hazards such as landslides, mass movements, earthquakes and parameters used in geotechnical analyses, models and designs. I want to find another Phd Course
    At the Doctoral School of Geosciences at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), you as a young scientist will be undertaking research on a high international level. You will work on solutions for current problems in geoscience. Depending on the subject of your dissertation, you will complete either a doctoral programme in engineering sciences or a doctoral programme in natural sciences.

    Disciplines

    Environmental SciencesEarth SciencesGeology

    Requirements

    English Requirements

    • IELTSMin 6.5
    • TOEFLMin 87

    Other Requirements

    1completion of a subject-related diploma or master’s programme in engineering sciences or natural sciences at a university orcompletion of another degree programme at a recognised Austrian or foreign post-secondary educational institution that is equivalent to the aforementioned degree programmes orcompletion of a degree programme at a recognised Austrian or foreign post-secondary educational institution in combination with supplementary curricular requirements orcompletion of a subject-related bachelor’s programme.

    Fee Information

    Doctoral School of Geosciences

    Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)

    Graz University of Technology (TU Graz)

    Austria

    Austria, Graz