Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences
The “Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences” Graduate Programme is one of the 22 Graduate Programmes offered by the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences and it is hosted at the Globe Institute. The Globe Institute operates at the intersection of natural and medical sciences and the humanities. The “Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences” Graduate Programme aims to provide advanced, research-based interdisciplinary training on earth sciences, evolution, environment, and diseases studies.
So far, interdisciplinarity between natural and biomedical science has not been adequately supported by a dedicated training program to institutionalize the preparation of specialists with advanced competence spanning over multiple research fields. The Globe “Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences” Graduate Programme seeks to address this structural weakness within UCPH advanced educational offer by bringing in a single training environment world-leading research sections with diversified and complementary focus on earth sciences, evolution, environment, and diseases studies. The Globe Graduate Programme also guides the PhD fellows to develop the advanced interdisciplinary knowledge required to achieve seamless integration of earth sciences, ecology and evolution studies with disease studies and biomedical disciplines. Through the creation of a coherent and powerful training environment, and by empowering interdisciplinary knowledge, as well as specific research-related and transferable skills, the Globe Graduate Programme aims at scaffolding the Globe PhD fellows’ future professional thinking. The mindset (or “forma mentis”) the Globe Graduate Programme alumni will have acquired during their early-stage training experience will strongly affect all their future professional practicing, within and outside academia.
Professional networking activities
Courses
Courses on large-scale datasets analysis (at least one required)
A relevant competence common to all the Globe PhD fellows, independently from the section they are part of, is the ability to confidently treat large-scale dataset. For this reason, the “Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences” Graduate Programme offers two courses focused on the analysis of large-scale datasets. Based on their background knowledge, the attendance of at least one of the two courses is required to each Globe PhD fellow.
Research line-specific courses
To fulfil the training needs of each section, the “Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences” Graduate Programme also offers elective courses and summer schools focused on earth sciences, ecology and evolution.
Title: Advanced Topics in Data Analysis
Course directors: Fernando Racimo and Shyam Gopalakrishnan
Date: 24/04/2023 - 05/05/2023
Enrollment deadline: 28/03/2023
ECTS: 5
Title: Science communication - boost the impact of your research
Course directors: Kristine Bohmann
Date: 12/06/2023 - 16/06/2023
Enrollment deadline 12/05/2023
ECTS: 4,0
Title: Palaeoanthropology and Human Evolution
Course directors: Enrico Cappellini and Fabrice Demeter
Date: 26/06/2023 - 30/06/2023
Enrollment deadline 31/05/2023
ECTS: 4,5
Title: Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School
Course directors: Enrico Cappellini and Alberto Taurozzi
Date: 17/08/2023 - 25/08/2023
Enrollment deadline: 01/04/2023
ECTS: 5
Title: Introduction to cosmochemistry and planet formation
Course directors: Elishevah van Kooten and Anders Johansen
Date: 21/08/2023 - 25/08/2023
Enrollment deadline 31/05/2023
ECTS: 3,8
Title: Modelling species distributions under climate change
Course directors: David B. Nogues and Hannah Lois Owens
Date: 28/08/2023 - 1/09/2023
Enrollment deadline 31/07/2023
ECTS: 5
Title: Introduction to study design, fieldwork and data collection
Course director: Bo Dalsgaard and Ostaizka Aizpurua Arrieta,
Date: 02/10/2023 - 06/10/2023
Enrollment deadline 01/09/2023
ECTS: 3,5
Transferable skills activities
Title: Ethical Challenges in Genetics Research
Activity coordinators: Fernando Racimo, Tharsika Vimala and Hugh McColl
ECTS: 2
Title: Star and Planet Formation
Activity coordinators: Anders Johansen, Martin Schiller. Isaac James Onyett
ECTS: 2.5
Title: R Working group focusing on data analysis
Activity coordinators: Rodrigues da Fonseca, Maria Novosolov, Hannah Lois Owens and Julia Helena Heinen
ECTS: 2
2022
Courses
Title: Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School
Course directors: Enrico Cappellini and Alberto Taurozzi
Date: 11/08/2022 - 19/08/2022
Enrollment deadline: 01/04/2022
ECTS: 5
Title: Modelling species distributions under climate change
Course director: David B. Nogues
Date: 29/08/2022 - 2/09/2022
Enrollment deadline 31/07/2022
ECTS: 5
Title: Fundamentals in Computational Analysis of Large-Scale Datasets (required) - SOLD OUT -
Course director: Martin Sikora
Date: 07/03/2022 – 18/03/2022
Enrollment deadline 14/02/2022
ECTS: 5
Title: Advanced topics in Data Analysis (required) - SOLD OUT -
Course directors: Fernando Racimo and Shyam Gopalakrishnan
Date: 28/03/2022 – 08/04/2022
Enrollment deadline: 01/03/2022
ECTS: 5
Title: Introduction to cosmochemistry and planet formation
Course director: Anders Johansen
Date: 31.01.2022 – 04.02.2022
Enrollment deadline: 02/01/2022
ECTS: 3.8
2021
Courses
Title: Fundamentals in Analysis of Large-Scale Datasets
Course director: Martin Sikora
Date: 12.08.2021 – 20.08.2021
Enrollment deadline 01/03/2021
ECTS: 5
Title: Advanced topics in Data Analysis
Course directors: Fernando Racimo and Shyam Gopalakrishnan
Date: 26.04.2021 – 07.05.2021
Enrollment deadline: 12/03/2021
ECTS: 5
Title: Introduction to Hologenomics
Course directors: Antton Alberdi and Morten Limborg
Date: 25.05.2021 – 04.06.2021
Enrollment deadline 23/04/2021
ECTS: 5
Title: Practical Palaeoproteomics Summer School
Course directors: Enrico Cappellini and Alberto Taurozzi
Date: 12.08.2021 - 20.08.2021
Enrollment deadline: 01/06/2021
ECTS:5
Title: Modelling species distributions under climate change
Course director: David Nogués Bravo
Date: 30.08.2021 - 03.09.2021
Enrollment deadline: 30/07/2021
ECTS: 4.5
Title: Julia for data analysis in ecology and evolution
Course director: Michael K. Borregaard
Date: 18.10.2021 - 29.10.2021
Enrollment deadline: 27/09/2021
ECTS: 5
Transferable skills activities
Title: Science communication
Professional networking activities
Globe PhD Day 2022
Date: 10th June (tentative)
On 28 January 2022, we hosted the first annual PhD Day at Globe. Since the PhD Day was cancelled last year, we ask all PhD students to register once again by filling in the updated sign-up survey. For questions, please contact us on the Globe PhD slack channel #globe-phd-day or by email to PhDDay@sund.ku.dk.
Opening of the academic year for PhD students
On 29 October, we celebrated the opening of the academic year to welcome the new PhD fellows at the GLOBE Institute. The event was organised by the GLOBE PhD Programme Steering Committee.
Enrico Cappellini, Associate Professor, Palaeoproteomics, Head of Graduate Programme, Globe Institute, Geogenetics section;
David Nogués Bravo, Professor, Macroecology, Globe Institute, Biodiversity section;
Martin Schiller, Associate Professor, Cosmochemistry, Globe Institute, StarPlan (also representing the GeoBio section)
Martin Sikora, Associate Professor, Palaeogenomics, Globe Institute, GeoGenetics section
Sandra Breum Andersen, Associate Professor, Globe Institute, Evolutionary Hologenomics section
Bo Dalsgaard, Associate Professor, Globe Institute, Molecular Ecology and Evolution section
Rasa Audange Muktupavela, Globe PhD fellow representative, GLOBE Institute, Molecular Ecology and Evolution section
Hussein Shokry, Globe PhD fellow representative, GLOBE Institute, GeoGenetics section
Here, https://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/support-for-phd-students/, you can read more about the different kind of support The Graduate School and The University of Copenhagen provide to PhD students enrolled at The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.
Each Department or Institute at SUND has a PhD coordinator that can help you to navigate the PhD Program and other related issues. PhD coordinators act as advisers to PhD students on non-academic issues, help to facilitate the contact between you, the department, the graduate program and the Graduate School when necessary. PhD coordinators also foster a good academic and social environment for the PhD students, provide support their well-being and foster a good academic and social environment for the PhD students, contribute to organize events for PhD students and collaborate with student organizations.
At Globe, we have a Phd coordinator for each of the sections. Please find the details here:
Stars and Planets Formation Martin Schiller schiller@sund.ku.dk
Geogenetics Martin Sikora martin.sikora@sund.ku.dk
Biodiversity David Nogués-Bravo dnogues@sund.ku.dk
Molecular Ecology and Evolution and Geobiology: Enrico Cappellini ecappellini@sund.ku.dk
You can sign up for courses at the Science PhD School here.
You can sign up for courses at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences here.
For signing up for both Faculties, you need to use your KU username.
- Click on the link “Login for PhD students at UCPH” at the top right-hand corner.
- Enter your UCPH Username (KU ID)(ex. abc123) and your password. If you don’t know or remember your password, use the “Forgot password”-function in the bottom left-hand corner.
For both schools there are “how to” in the left hand side at the course page.
Please be aware of the cancellation policy at SUND.
You can always contact the PhD school’s:
phd@science.ku.dk for Science courses
phdkursus@sund.ku.dk for SUND courses
Contacts
Associate Professor Enrico Cappellini, Head of Graduate Programme
Professor David Bravo Nogues, PhD Coordinator
Graduate programme secretariat
Phone: +45 35 33 25 14
E-mail: ida.mbr@sund.ku.dk