About

This is an innovative program, unique in Catalonia and Spain in terms of its content, which aims to provide a bridge between various disciplines in this field. The DTIC PhD program has been growing steadily and currently hosts about 130 PhD students and 40 faculty and tenure-track professors who can supervise a PhD thesis. The program received a Mention of Excellence award from the Ministry of Science and Innovation in 2011.

The DTIC department consistently ranks among the top computer science departments in Spain (e.g. the the only computer science department from an Spanish university that has even been included in the top 100 of the Shanghai Ranking). The DTIC's research activities are organized around 15 groups pursuing a wide range of topics that include networking, wireless communications, multimedia, image and music processing, medical imaging, interactive technologies, artificial intelligence, data mining, and computational neuroscience, among others.

The UPF university was awarded in 2010 the distinction of International Excellence Campus by the Spanish Ministry of Education and it is widely considered to be one of the best universities in Spain (e.g. is one of the three top Spanish universities according to 2012 Times Higher Education Ranking).

• Systematic understanding of the scientific discipline represented by the programme and command of the skills and research methods related to this discipline.
• The ability to conceive, design, implement and adopt a substantial research process with academic rigour.
• The production of original research that extends the frontiers of knowledge of this discipline at a level which merits national or international publication.
• The ability to foster technological progress in the information society in academic and professional contexts.

On completing the doctorate course, candidates must:

• Have acquired a level of training that incorporates the most advanced knowledge in the field of information and communication technologies in one of the department's research areas, in both theoretical and methodological terms.

• Have designed and carried out a substantial research process of the highest level in one the department's areas of research.

• Be able to apply the main research methods to a project at the highest level within the field of information technology.

• Be able to make a contribution by means of original research that extends the frontiers of knowledge of information and communication technologies with the development of a substantial corpus, of which all or part or merits national or international publication.

• Be able to present and convincingly defend scientific studies in the area of information and communication technologies before an expert audience.

• Be able to incorporate and use these technologies in an efficient, coherent and justified manner in research problems.

Researchers in companies in the field of the information society or academia.

The Department of Information and Communication Technologies at UPF seeks doctoral applications from talented student with a strong interest in research. Candidates for PhD positions must hold a MSc degree or quivalent.