PhD Programme in Biology is carried out in English, in full-time, eight-semester system at the Faculty of Biology.
This PhD programme covers courses representing various areas of biological sciences, including training in modern methodology and mastering skills useful in professional academic and nonacademic career.
Choice of facultative classes and possibility of gaining credits for courses offered outside of the University ensures flexibility and helps to adjust participation in classes to the individual research plan of the student.
Choice of facultative classes and possibility of gaining credits for courses offered outside of the University ensures flexibility and helps to adjust participation in classes to the individual research plan of the student.
For everyone who will be accepted for the PhD programme in Biology a scholarship is guaranteed.
PhD students are recruited to the specific research topics offered by the faculty members. Some of the competitions listed below are held outside the OAS system (Online Application System).
We kindly ask you to follow the recruitment rules described in each competition.
We kindly ask you to follow the recruitment rules described in each competition.
Each year, PhD students and their advisors/promotors write individual research plan for a given year. Until the end of four semester student’s achievements are evaluated (mid-term evaluation) by the committee.
Doctoral dissertations are prepared under the supervision of scientific staff of the Faculty of Biology (members of the Institute of Botany, Institute of Environmental Sciences or Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research). PhD programme in Biology lead to the scientific Doctoral title in the discipline of biology. More information about the programme can be found here.
The PhD programme in Biology provides the following benefits:
- obtaining an advanced level qualification in the biological sciences.
- doing your dissertation and obtaining a doctoral degree at the oldest university in this part of Europe: https://www.uj.edu.pl/uniwersytet-z-collegium-medicum/historia.
- personal development through participation in the work of experienced research teams, establishing national and international scientific contacts through extensive collaboration with scientific institutions.
- conducting interdisciplinary research with a multifaceted approach to research in terms of theory and practice.
- Contact with renowned scientists from the Jagiellonian University and other Polish and foreign universities in disciplines related to your study.
- Access to specialized laboratories equipped with modern equipment such as diagnostic microscopes, a transmission electron microscope for biological applications and a flow cytometer.
- Participating in research projects and acquiring your own projects.
- Participating in summer schools.
- Obtaining language certificates.
- Popularization of science as broadly understood.
Added benefits:
- the opportunity to participate in the cultural and social life of the city of Krakow https://phd.uj.edu.pl/life-in-cracow
- the opportunity to meet and collaborate with doctoral students from all over the world
- membership of the PhD Students’ Association of the Jagiellonian University https://doktoranci.uj.edu.pl/
- free education
- scholarship and health insurance
- additional remuneration for work in research projects
The graduate of the PhD programme in Biology:
- Is prepared to practice science, carry out research and conduct teaching activities at the university level.
- Is able to use in practice the acquired knowledge in the field of biological sciences to construct innovative research hypotheses in order to solve theoretical and practical problems.
- Is able to support the development of others through teaching with the use of modern methodology, techniques and educational tools
- Possesses the necessary social competences
- Understands the need and shows readiness to fulfil social obligations resulting from conducting scientific research.
