Content
Dissertation
- You undertake independent research in a specific application area of geoscience.
- You look for solutions to natural science related problems and technical problems in geoscience.
- You publish, present and defend your research results.
Courses (curricular workload)
- You gain fundamental knowledge and specialise in the subject of your dissertation.
- You gain experience of geoscientific methods.
- You regularly talk to teachers and other students about your progress and the results of your dissertation.
Focus Areas
- Duration of study: 3 years
- Academic degree: Doktorin/Doktor der technischen Wissenschaften (Dr. techn.; translation: Doctor of Technical Sciences) or Doktorin/Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr.rer.nat.; translation: Doctor of Natural Sciences), equivalent to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Languages of instruction: English and German
- Admission requirements: see requirements for doctoral programmes
- Curricula:
- Statutes:
Admission Deadlines
Admissions to doctoral studies are possible in the current semester at any time up to a maximum of ten days before the start of the general admission period of the following semester. Admission deadlines
Further informationen on registration and admission
International degree programme applicants: admission and application deadlines
Information and Advice
Class of Earth Sciences
- Head
Dorothee HIPPLER
Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Geol. Dr.phil.-nat.
Phone: +43 316 873 6878
dorothee.hippler@tugraz.at - Dean of Studies
Christine LATAL
Mag.rer.nat. Dr.rer.nat.
Phone: +43 316 873 6367
christine.latal@tugraz.at - Student representative
Stefanie EICHINGER
BSc MSc
stefanie.eichinger@tugraz.at
Class of Geodesy
- Head
Torsten MAYER-GÜRR
Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Phone: +43 316 873 6359
mayer-guerr@tugraz.at - Dean of Studies
Norbert KÜHTREIBER
Ao.Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
Phone: +43 316 873 6352
norbert.kuehtreiber@tugraz.at - Student representative
Caroline SCHÖNBERGER
Dipl.-Ing. BSc
c.schoenberger@tugraz.at
The following could also be of interest
Class of Earth Sciences
Research core areas
- Tectonics and structural geology
- Geodynamics and geochemistry
- Mineralogy and petrology
- Geobiology and palaeoecology
- Actuopalaeoecology, palaeobiogeography and stratigraphy
- Groundwater reservoirs and fault zones as drinking water supplies
- Experiments to verify mechanisms of the formation of carbonate minerals
- Carbonate formation in natural and industrial environments
- Silicate, phosphate and oxide mineral formation and weathering
- Environmental and applied mineralogy
- Mass movement and avoidance strategies
- Quantification of scouring processes in tectonically damaged rock masses
- Statistic methods for documenting and predicting mountain behaviour during tunnel construction
Research activities
As an inter-faculty and inter-university platform, the Class of Earth Sciences offers an excellent environment for doing research in the fields of- natural processes of movement in the interior and on the surface of the earth,
- the material and chemical structure and the distribution and cycling of chemical elements and their isotopes in minerals, rocks, soils, water, the atmosphere and the biosphere,
- the properties of natural minerals and rocks and their interactions with aqueous solutions, their conditions of formation and reaction mechanisms,
- the applicability of multi-proxy approaches to (palaeo-) environmental research,
- biological evolution of changing biodiversity patterns and interactions between organisms and their environment over the course of earth history,
- physical, chemical and microbiological processes in soils and groundwater, and their movements, and
- geological hazards such as landslides, mass movements, earthquakes and parameters used in geotechnical analyses, models and designs.
The Doctoral School of Geosciences aims to connect problem-focussed, practical research and basic research on the highest international level. It provides a platform where geoscientists from all over the world can make new contacts, initiate national and international cooperations and profit from the considerable experience of the staff. After successfully graduating from the Class of Earth Sciences you can apply your comprehensive practical and theoretical knowledge of areas such as (isotope) hydrogeochemistry, mineralogy, environmental monitoring and instrumental analytics environmental monitoring and instrumental analytics in many different applied and/or basic research subject areas.
Selection of current research projects
- Base-Line Earth; Innovative Training Network (ITN) Call: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions.
- Marine Carbonate Archives: Controls on Carbonate Precipitation and Pathways of Diagenetic Alteration (CHARON-DFG Forschergruppe 1644) – Project TP1 Experimental diagenesis- understanding processes during calcium carbonate precipitation and diagenesis – an experimental approach.
- Mediterranean Oligo-Miocene stratigraphy and palaeoecology (FWF-Project P23492).
- Role of magma and fluid flow processes in distribution of C-Ni and Platinum –Group Elements (Duluth Complex, Minnesota, USA) (FWF-Project P 23157-N21).
- Fault- and fluid-systems subsequent to subduction initiation in the outer Izu-Bonin-Mariana fore arc and within supra subduction zone ophiolites (FWF Project P 27982-N29).
- Doctoral Programme Climate Change – Uncertainties, Thresholds and coping Strategies (FWF Project W 1256-G15), Project Impact of climate change on groundwater resources: Feedback mechanisms and thresholds under drought conditions.
The Doctoral School of Geosciences is very international. All courses can be held in English if needed. The doctoral school provides an effective communication platform for scientific exchange between students and professors. After completing their doctoral degree, students can apply their comprehensive knowledge of geoscience and their academic skills in many different interdisciplinary areas.
Teaching staff
Institutes
Information about the publications and projects from each institute can be obtained by viewing their respective business cards.
Class of Earth Sciences
Class of Geodesy
- Institute of Geodesy
- Working group for navigation
- Working group for remote sensing and photogrammetry
- Working group for geoinformation
- Working group for theoretical geodesy and satellite geodesy
- Institute of Engineering Geodesy and Measurement Systems
