PhD Courses in Denmark

The goal is to give a broad overview of different disciplines within Aquatic Science. Extensive and broad knowledge is of essence in for the students’ future career. Many PhD students come with a specialized background and work in specialized projects. Participating in seminars given by experts gives an insight to the state-of-the-art of the field and broadens the student’s scientific scope. Questions and discussions during the seminar encourage critical scientific thinking. The course is designed around the DTU Aqua seminar series, which is arranged to offer bi-weekly seminars in autumn and spring with total of 16-20 seminars annually. The seminar series is designed to cover most of the fields within aquatic science, inviting speakers from other DTU departments, Danish universities and research institutions, and international guests visiting the Institute as well as DTU Aqua scientists.

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

• Have a broad knowledge of the main topics of scientific discussion within aquatic science.
• Relate own specifically focused research topic with a broader array of research topics.
• Extract the main message from a scientific seminar.
• Critically assess the quality of the seminar, content and presentation.
• Lead a seminar – by introducing a speaker and lead discussions.
• Formulate relevant question(s) to a seminar speaker.
• ...
• ...

The seminars will cover different aspects of aquatic science; fisheries, stock assessment, statistical models, ecosystem models, climate and hydrographical models, trait based biology, fish biology, energetics, marine ecology, food webs, zooplankton, phytoplankton, ecosystem functioning, climate change, marine pollution, invasive species, environmental monitoring, aquaculture, fish disease, data management and more. The specific contents, the topics and articles discussed, vary from semester to semester, so there is no repetition in the specific contents.