Universidade Santiago de Compostela Doctorate in Materials Science
Universidade Santiago de Compostela

Universidade Santiago de Compostela

Doctorate in Materials Science

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

PhD

3 years

Spanish, Galician

Full time

Oct 2026

EUR 240 / per year

On-Campus

Key Summary

    About : The Doctorate in Materials Science offers an opportunity to dive deep into the study of materials and their applications. This program enables students to conduct original research and gain significant expertise, equipping them with skills to innovate and solve complex problems in various fields like engineering and technology.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue careers as research scientists, materials engineers, or academic professionals. They may also find opportunities in industries such as manufacturing, aerospace, and nanotechnology, where they can apply their specialized knowledge and skills.

The Doctoral Program in Materials Sciences arises with the aim of providing the industrial and R & D & I sector with highly qualified professionals in this emerging and interdisciplinary area capable of solving the problems that are formulated in the new and increasingly economically important fields of electronic materials, functional materials, biomaterials and nanomaterials.

The Program aims to cover the need for specialists in Materials Science researchers who can exercise their research role in the field of design, characterization and application of new materials, or in the search for new applications of existing materials, and allow the transfer and putting into service of the knowledge generated to society.

Lines of investigation

  • Ceramics and industrial materials
  • Study of nanostructured materials using theoretical models and computer simulation techniques
  • Theoretical, experimental and computational study of soft materials and characterization of their physical-chemical and structural properties (simple liquids, complex charged fluids...)
  • Physics of solid and liquid surfaces. Physical properties, friction and wear
  • Design and characterization of nanostructured materials and nanocomposites for biomedical, catalytic and electro-optical applications
  • Supramolecular self-assembled systems: Obtaining, characterization, properties and applications
  • Correlated electronic systems: superconductivity and spintronics