Doctoral education
A programme consisting of four years' full-time study and 240 credits, which leads to a doctorate. A licentiate degree consists of 120 credits and two years' full-time study. In order to be accepted for doctoral studies, you must have completed basic university education, with at least one year at second-cycle level. A doctoral student gains a deeper insight into their subject in their doctoral studies. A doctoral thesis constitutes at least 120 credits of doctoral studies (80 for a licentiate degree).

Popular Science Communicating Forest Research
Increasingly the scientific community is recognizing the important role of ‘storytelling’ through popular science. Popular science outputs vary on the level of ‘creativity’. On one end of the
Seminarieserie "Utanför den akademiska världen": #1 Vetenskap och juridik
Seminar series "Outside of Academia": #1 Science & Law anne.honsel@slu.se Seminar series organised by PhD students from Umeå Plant Science Centre Do you want to know which career paths are
Dissertation Meysam Nazari
Chemical and physical incorporation of bio-molecules into wood materials for energy storage charlotta.bergstrom@slu.se Meysam Nazari defends his thesis "Chemical and physical incorporation of
Diss Gesa Hoffmann
Stress & Granules Regulation of Cauliflower mosaic virus disease in Arabidopsis thaliana charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Gesa Hoffmann defends her thesis "Stress & Granules Regulation of Cauliflower
Diss Topi Haataja
Structure function studies of GH7 cellulases, key enzymes in the global carbon cycle charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Topi Haataja defends his thesis "Structure function studies of GH7 cellulases, key
Resebidrag för internationalisering av forskarutbildningen
If you, as a doctoral student, want to travel abroad within the framework of your education, there is now again the possibility to apply for a travel grant for the internationalisation of the
Diss Mathilde Brunel
Metabolites in fish and humans as a response to different food ingredients charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Mathilde Brunel defends her thesis "Metabolites in fish and humans as a response to different
Diss Viktor Thunell
Fish life histories in a warming climate: a mechanistic basis of change and a community context charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Viktor Thunell defends his thesis "Fish life histories in a warming
phd-LCA-course-2023
Advances in life cycle assessment, 5 HP/ECTS agnes.soto@slu.se This course gives an in-depth orientation of LCA. It includes a broad range of LCA-related topics: the methodology, its application,
Diss Jacob Dalgaard Christensen
Risk, reproducibility, and reproduction: Essays on scholar’s analytic decisions and consumers’ product purchases charlotta.eriksson@slu.se Jacob Dalgaard Christensen defends his thesis "Risk,
Ph.D course: Considering Uncertainty in Forest Management Planning
Ph.D course: Considering Uncertainty in Forest Management Planning dimitris.athanassiadis@slu.se Considering uncertainty in forest planning is crucial, allowing for the assessment and mitigation of
Forestry and Sustainable Development
PhD course: Forestry and Sustainable Development dimitris.athanassiadis@slu.se Forest resources, play a key role in achieving national and EU energy policy objectives. Sweden has committed to a net