The Gandia Campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is launching the new PhD Programme in Marine and Coastal Science and Technology from the 2022-2023 academic year.
Training in science and applications for the marine and coastal environment
The PhD Programme in Marine and Coastal Science and Technology aims to train personnel with a research vocation in the scientific and technological aspects relevant to the effective and sustainable management of marine and coastal areas. In this context, there are other lines of research to promote the advancement of new procedures, methodologies and techniques that allow better management of the coastal and maritime environment, considering sociological, ecological and environmental aspects, as well as the efficiency in the resource management.
The programme covers several lines of research: electronic devices, telematic networks and artificial intelligence techniques for monitoring marine and coastal environments; marine ecosystem observation and modelling methodologies; oceanography, fisheries management and river habitat modelling and new materials for acoustic field control; and acoustic simulation, with application to the marine and coastal environment.
UPV expert and faculty staff
As the director of the Gandia Campus, Jesús Alba, emphasised, “This campus has been looking to the sea for years: the Joint Unit with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), its renewal for 10 years and the extension of the sheds, the Research Institute for the Integrated Management of Coastal Ecosystems (IGIC), the Master’s Degree in Environmental Assessment and Monitoring of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems” and finally “the Doctoral Programme in Marine and Coastal Science and Technology, which will be the first Doctoral Programme on the Gandia Campus”.
This new programme, offered by the UPV Doctoral School and which will be taught at the Gandia Campus from September, “is managed by an academic committee made up of expert staff and prestigious researchers from the campus, from the Research Institute for Management of Integrated Coastal Areas (IGIC), as well as scientific staff from other UPV research structures”, as Rubén Picó, coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Marine and Coastal Science and Technology, explained.