Come and make your
doctoral dissertation a Tecnun
Research is a way of serving society. Each doctoral dissertation attempts to answer a question that has never been asked.
D. opens doors to business in a special way. It also opens doors to academia. It is a privileged stage to continue to grow, to learn to master new methods and technologies, as well as to deepen and become an expert in an innovative subject.
CONTACT
VERONICA MARTIN
administrative assistant of Doctorate
vmartin@tecnun.es
Paseo de Manuel Lardizabal, 13
20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
+34 943 21 98 77
Specialization
In-depth knowledge
With the doctoral dissertation, you become an expert in a specific subject by answering a question that no one had ever asked or answered before.
IN THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY
Generate new solutions
You cross the line of knowledge: you learn to generate new solutions and to master, in depth, new methods and technologies potentially applicable to other fields.
NEW SKILLS
Growth staff
The doctoral dissertation is a great opportunity for development of critical thinking. It allows you to reach a new level of autonomy, intellectual maturity, communication skills, resilience and creativity. You learn to count things, synthesize, analyze and draw conclusions.
ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT
Time to exchange ideas
You work and grow in an academic, university environment, with a great cultural richness. You have time to study, study in depth and exchange ideas with the rest of the university community. You can do this both at the University of Navarra and at the scientific congresses you attend to present the results of your thesis.
Multidisciplinary
Collaboration with other areas
With the doctoral dissertation, you join the different research groups of Tecnun, composed of varied and complementary profiles, which address projects and issues that affect different disciplines and, therefore, stimulate collaboration with other areas of knowledge: medicine, architecture, social sciences, etc.
TARGETED RESEARCH
Funded projects
You participate in research projects funded by public administrations or companies with a clear and specific orientation to solve a technological challenge of social relevance.
academic staff qualified
Quality supervision
You receive a specific training of your area from knowledge by supervisors, professors and researchers with experience and prestige in the subject, who carry out a periodic and individualized follow-up.
NETWORKING
Environment
global
At Tecnun you have the opportunity to interact with researchers and professionals from other universities, centers and companies through congresses, stays and meetings of project in which they participate. Among them, Tecnun collaborates with prestigious international universities such as MIT, Harvard or Berkeley.
KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION SCIENTIFIC
Impact results
You can present and critique research results at international congresses and publications in scientific journals of international impact.
In and out of the classroom
Comprehensive training
D. courses, lectures with prestigious researchers, group meetings, entrepreneurship, humanistic training, volunteer activities, sports, culture...
Research/teaching balance
50%teaching
50%research
Professors who dedicate 50% to teaching and 50% to research: commitment of professors to transfer research to teaching.
SOCIAL IMPACT
Cutting-edge research
Tecnun is involved in more than 90 research projects with social impact. National and international projects in different fields related to health, nutrition, Artificial Intelligence, energy efficiency or crisis management. +