Education - PHD Council

Your tasks

• The topical lectures occur thrice per year and last three days. Every set of lectures has its own topic (hence the name), such as the quark gluon plasma, gravitational waves or symmetries in physics. Attendance of 6 Topical lectures is mandatory within OSAF, but two can be substituted by an equivalent education in accordance with the C3 committee.

What we offer

During your time as a PhD candidate, you will have ample opportunity to develop yourself both within and outside of the fields of science. For a significant part, this will happen naturally as you do your research, but aside from that there are some educational schemes to help you during and after your PhD years. Some of them serve to raise or maintain your knowledge about a certain field of physics whereas others teach presentation and negotiation skills. General guidelines for training and education activities of Nikhef can be found here (to be updated). A list of obligatory and optional educational opportunities is outlined below.