Environment, resources and security
The general objective of this curriculum is to provide advanced third-level (doctoral) education for researchers and experts in environmental security, sustainable land use, infrastructure impacts, and natural resource management. The programme equips students with the knowledge and skills to assess and mitigate environmental risks, promote sustainable practices, and integrate environmental considerations into the planning, design, and management of infrastructures at local and global scales.
Specific fields
- Interactions between climate dynamics and the eco-hydrologic cycle.
- Infrastructures and biochemical processes for water treatment.
- Environmental biotechnology.
- Land and infrastructure resilience.
- Risk analysis and control (seismic, flood, landslides,..)
- Land planning and design.
- Strategic planning for the sustainability of urban development.
- Solid waste management.
- Security and remediation of contaminated sites.
- Safety control in transport infrastructures.
- Soil-structures interactions.
- Tools for the safety improvement of transport infrastructures.
- ITS systems.
- Human factor in road design.
- Land survey and analysis with novel geomatics technologies, including geophysical prospecting, digital photogrammetry, geo-statistics, geographic information systems, and services.
Last update
09.01.2026