Technology and Natural Sciences Doctoral Programme

Doctoral researchers from the following degree programmes belong to the Doctoral Programme for Technology and Natural Sciences:

• Architecture
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Geography (physical geography)
• Geosciences and Mining Engineering and Mineral Processing
• Industrial Engineering and Management
• Mathematical Sciences
• Mechanical Engineering
• Physics and Astronomy
• Process and Environmental Engineering.

Check the study requirements in your own doctoral degree programme!

Activities 2025

• TNS-DP Research Plan Seminar Course. 13.06.2025. Course general description and requirements in this link. (1 ECTS) .
• Inorganic synthesis and characterization. 16.-19.6. 2025 (lectures, hybrid, open for all) (2 ECTS) & 23.-27.6.2025 (experimental part, presence required, limited to max.10 students). (3 ECTS).
• Weathering and weathered bedrock, 771660S Special issues in geosciences, weeks 43 or 45 in 2025, Linnanmaa Campus in the University of Oulu. (5 ECTS).
• TNS-DP Research Plan Seminar Course. October or November 2025. Course general description and requirements in this link. NB: 1-2 ECTS depending on the participation on the Kvantum Science Days.

• Kaamos Symposium. December 2025. (4 ECTS).

Kvantum Institute

Kvantum Institute is one of the four centres for multidisciplinary research, which promote multidisciplinary research at the University of Oulu in areas of global challenges. Kvantum supports high-quality research and coordinates multidisciplinary research activities and doctoral training particularly in the thematic area "Mitigating climate change and safeguarding biodiversity".

Doctoral programme coordinator

• Jouko Inkeröinen & Riitta Kamula, jouko.inkeroinen(at)oulu.fi
• Contact for questions related to courses and events organized by the doctoral programme

Graduate school coordinator

• Niina Timosaari-Hyry, niina.timosaari(at)oulu.fi
• Contact for general questions related to doctoral training