The PhD programmes at MMK are in one of four research programs: Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry. The programmes all correspond to four years of full time study. The education has two parts: 60 ECTS of courses and a research project part ending in a PhD thesis. The thesis is almost always a summary of research presented in a number of scientific journal articles written from your doctoral work.
PhD research subjects
Course work for the PhD
The course part consists of compulsory courses and courses that the PhD student can select from available courses at SU or other universities. MMK gives a number of freestanding courses at the advanced level that are also suitable for PhD students. Search the course catalogue
Compulsory courses
Participation during the first year(s) of the PhD program in the set of short PhD courses arranged by the Chemistry Section:
| Teaching chemistry | 2 ECTS |
| Philosophy of science and ethics | 3 ECTS |
| Writing science (Writing a scientific article) | 3 ECTS |
| Arrhenius seminar for PhD students (Communicating science) | 1 ECTS |
| PhD seminar course | 5 ECTS |
| Advanced course in the research subject | 10 – 15 ECTS |
