Gdańsk University of Technology
PhD Information & Communication Technology
Gdańsk, Poland
PhD
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The PhD in Technical Informatics and Telecommunications at Gdańsk University of Technology trains doctoral students in state-of-the-art information and communication technologies. The programme includes compulsory and optional courses on data and signal acquisition, storage, analysis, visualization, information encoding and telecommunication system design, plus visiting-lecturer seminars. Research spans applications in medicine, land and sea engineering, navigation, education and homeland security, and builds creative problem-solving for independent research, implementation, and professional practice.
Career Outcomes: Graduates gain advanced expertise to lead in industry or pursue academic research. Potential roles include unit leaders, R&D managers, telecommunications engineers, systems architects, researchers and university faculty.
The programme for PhD in Technical Informatics and Telecommunications is aimed at teaching doctoral students innovative and state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and implementations of information and communication technologies (ICT). The programme includes obligatory and facultative courses which highlight aspects of data exchange, processing and analysis, as well as lectures by visiting professors from related research areas. The most important topics covered by the programme are: data and signal acquisition, storage, analysis and visualization, information encoding, exchange and dissemination, as well as the design principles of telecommunication systems and networks, radio communication, and radiolocation. The courses offer a broad and interdisciplinary insight into the scientific methods of ICT, and provide examples of their application to a variety of disciplines. The available research opportunities include applications of ICT methods to medicine, land and sea engineering, navigation, education, homeland security and others.
Above all, the programme provides the doctoral students with background in the fields of technical informatics and telecommunications, ranging through a wide plethora of industries, and grants them the creative problem solving skills required to develop and implement their own ideas and concepts.
Research areas:
- Communication Systems and Networks
- Computer Optimisation and Algorithms
- Intelligent Data Processing and Analysis
- Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction
Training at the Doctoral School is free of charge. Everyone accepted to the Doctoral School (except for PhD students holding a doctor's title) receives a doctoral scholarship.
In addition, PhD students of a Doctoral School can apply for:
- Minister's scholarships for outstanding young scientists
- Scholarships from the Own Scholarship Fund
- EIRU scholarships
- Scholarships from research grants (available to the supervisor)
- Scholarships from other institutions (e.g., foundations, more information on the website, in Polish only, we can provide you with an English Google translation)
The graduates of the PhD programme will have obtained the knowledge and skills in the fields of technical informatics and telecommunications. As such, they will be qualified to enter either the ICT industry as unit leaders, or to continue on in research and academia as experts in their field. Graduates who choose a career in the industry tend to find high-ranking positions in international corporations from the ICT sector, many of which have established their R&D divisions in close proximity to the University.