MPhil in Planetary Science and Life in the Universe

About this programme

The course encompasses several different educational and societal objectives: Societal demand for multi-domain expertise to tackle the challenges posed by observing and modelling complex systems; The need to train postgraduate students with high levels of interdisciplinary fluency and team working skills; and, A demand for highly trained research scientists able to drive data analysis on feature- rich sets of data from diverse sources. The course has four primary objectives for the training it will provide: To develop students’ expertise in the techniques used to study planets, from the Earth’