DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF MATERIALS SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

The goal of the Doctoral School of Material Sciences and Technologies is to train academics and professionals who have a comprehensive understanding of materials sciences and profound knowledge in a specific area and can perform individual, creative research in materials sciences and work with the practical applications.

Supervisors and professors of the Doctoral School are the teachers and researchers with outstanding scientific records from three faculties of Óbuda University (Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, Kandó Kálmán Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering) and other scientists invited from various Hungarian universities and research institutes.  Currently, the Doctoral School works with about 80 teachers including 7 core members and 25 supervisors.

Students of the Doctoral School, due to the complex character of materials sciences, must be engineering or science graduates with a deep graduate level knowledge in material sciences, and must be able to demonstrate their knowledge in an admission test. Currently some 25 students are involved in the program; about half of them are from foreign countries. Since 2015 a total of 6 people obtained the PhD diploma from the Doctoral School of Material Sciences and Technologies.

The academic program of the Doctoral School aims at understanding the relations among the structure and the properties of the materials, and at developing new structural and functional materials, by integrating various areas of sciences. The activities and specific areas of the Doctoral School cover macromolecular systems, advanced metals, polymers, ceramics, composites and micro- and nano-structured materials and technologies.

Requirements: During the four years of Ph.D. studies 240 credits should be obtained in a special distribution: Minimum 8 subjects should be fulfilled, selected from various areas of General studies on materials; Methods of materials testing; and specific areas of materials sciences (polymers, ceramics, metals, micro- and nano-structured materials and technologies). Further, students must publish at least 5 publications, among which at least 2 papers have to be internationally refereed professional journal papers possessing an impact factor.