The PhD programme in Computational Science

The doctoral education leads to a Phil. Dr. degree at Lund University. It normally takes four years of full-time studies, of which approximately one year is devoted to courses and seminars and three years are devoted to research. 

A doctoral dissertation in Computational Science commonly consists of a summarising chapter together with a collection of articles that have been published or are intended to be published in international scientific journals. The dissertation is defended at a public event with an external examiner and a thesis committee that evaluates the work.

The field of computational science

Computational science is defined in a broad sense as research that applies and develops computational methods for advanced computing with the aim of solving a scientific problem – the application – in natural science, technology or medicine. The application is investigated using non-trivial computational methods, modelling, data analysis or software design.  The research may include simulation and modeling as well as data analysis and data management. This also includes the development of models, methods and software. A doctoral project in computational science is interdisciplinary in the sense that both the scientific questions within the application and the computational aspects form a significant part of the thesis.