Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería
Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas

PhD in Complex Systems

Centre E.T.S. DE INGENIERIA AGRONOMICA, ALIMENTARIA Y DE BIOSISTEMAS
Official Degree
PhD in Complex Systems
Doctoral Field FORESTRY AND AGRO-ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES
Number of places 15
Contact details Rosa María Benito Zafrilla 
e-mail: rosamaria.benito@upm.es     Phone: +34 91 06 70926
Find out more www.gsc.upm.es/dsc/
Goals The objective of the programme is the formation of a large group of Graduates in Science and Engineering in a multidisciplinary research area of great interest. The Ph D. candidates acquire skills that enable them to integrate into interdisciplinary R&D teams with an in-depth knowledge of current research methodologies and with broad capabilities for advanced data analysis, computer modelling and simulation of complex systems in any field of science or technology.

They will also be trained to access the job market as Data Scientists in companies related to Big Data.
Lines of research
  1. Complex Networks
  2. Social networks
  3. Modelling in bacteria ecology
  4. Laws of scale, Soil Dynamics and Percolation
  5. Big-Data in Precision Agriculture and Remote Sensing
  6. Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Reservoir Computing
  7. Visibility Graphs
  8. Classical and Quantum Chaos
  9. Nonlinear Wave Dynamics in Optics. Structured and complex light
  10. Cellular autómata, Games theory