Program Purpose and Objectives

The COS program aims at providing highly interdisciplinary training to educate researchers to use advanced computational and data methodologies to solve complex scientific, and engineering problems. It provides a unified approach to modelling, high performance computing and data science and artificial intelligence-based approaches. Through modeling, simulation, machine learning and the study of specific phenomena, the program delivers cross-disciplinary knowledge but also domain-specific depth in fields like computational fundamental physics, climate modelling, computational fluid dynamics, computational biology, materials science, computational economics and digital cultural heritage. The program provides the necessary educational setting where excellence in education and research are fostered through interdisciplinary collaboration.

Intended Learning Outcomes

The program produces researchers who will be leaders in Computational Science with specialization in important fields that require High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence. They learn to apply computational modelling and simulation, develop numerical algorithms, understand high performance computer architectures, use data, optimization, error quantification and statistical analysis to provide insights to the world’s most complex systems, such as Earth Systems Science, Fundamental properties of matter, Biotechnology, Genomics and Drug Design, Digital Cultural Heritage and Economic Science.

Program Structure and Requirements

Current Program Structure and Requirements

To satisfy the requirements of the PhD program, a student must earn a total of 180 ECTS-credits of which 50 ECTS-credits are from courses.  The program has a duration of at least three years. A general indicative schedule of the program is displayed in the table below.

New Program Structure and Requirements (Pending official approval by the CYQAA)

The PhD in Computational Sciences is a full-time, 3-year program, structured in six semesters. It is primarily based on research leading to a written thesis, with taught elements being restricted to the beginning of the program.

The language of instruction and communication of the program is English.

To satisfy the requirements of the program, students require a total of 180 ECTS, of which 160 ECTS derive from research and 20 ECTS derive from the taught component. Specifically, 20 ECTS are earned through a mandatory course worth 10 ECTS, taken during the first semester, and through elective course(s) worth 10 ECTS, taken during semesters 1-3.

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Program Courses

Current Program Courses 

* All the above courses are complemented by relevant lectures, seminars and workshops organised and offered by the CaSToRC Center. 

New Program Courses (Pending official approval by the CYQAA)

The list of courses below is not exhaustive. Students will have the option to select elective courses from any one of the other five degree programs offered by the Graduate School of The Cyprus Institute.

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Academic Calendar

  + Academic Calendar 2019-2020

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