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Application

To apply to the Doctoral Program in Physics, it is required to be in possession of the academic degree of Bachelor in Physics or its equivalent. This degree corresponds to approximately five years of undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Physics.

Fill the application form and attach the following documents:

-    Personal statement letter addressed to the Program Director indicating motivation, research experience  (if any), research interests, and career plans and goals

-    Curriculum vitae

-   Academic degree certificate, or letter from academic institution indicating the expected date of graduation

-    Official academic transcripts, in English or Spanish, with a clear indication of the grade scale and student ranking

-     HD applicant picture

-     A minimum of two and a maximum of three letters of reference, in Spanish or English, written by people who know the applicant well and can give a thorough assessment of the candidate’s strengths and weaknesses (e.g., classwork, teaching, investigation, and personal character). Those letters should be submitted within this form. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that the letters are sent by his or her recommenders before the application deadline

-    Any other background that the applicant would like to add, for example the result of a standardized test such as GRE* or TOEFL (optional, highly recommended)

* The cost of the GRE test will be reimbursed once the applicant has been admitted to the doctoral program. To do so, the applicant have to send the corresponding invoice.

Foreign applicants must have a health insurance at the time of the formal enrollment.

Application date: from October 17th to November 25th, 2022, for studies beginning in March 2023.

If you have any questions, please contact to postgrado@fis.uc.cl.

Resources

Attendance to scientific meetings and Congress:

The Postgraduate Programs and Research Office promotes and supports the attendance of the students of the Institute of Physics in Congress and scientific meetings. To be granted with this benefit the student has to complete the following form and send it to postgrado@fis.uc.cl attaching additional information of the event.

· Form for congresses attendance

New Doctoral Program Regulations:

The students enrolled in the Ph.D. Program since March of 2015 must be ruled by the following regulations:

• Regulations of the Doctorate in Physics.
• Regulations of the Doctorate Student.
• Normative to the Doctorate Thesis work.

Doctoral Study Plan:

Click on the following link to download the study plan sequence suggested:

· A study plan of the Ph.D. Program in Physics.

Qualification Exam:

The Qualification Exam is one of the requirements that the student must approve to obtain the Academic Degree of Doctor in Physics. The student has to present four test that evaluates his/her knowledge and abilities in the following areas: Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory, Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics. All of them are necessaries to develop a research work by his/her own that will end in the thesis work.

The Exam must be taken in the first opportunity that the student has. The preparation is individual and is highly recommended review as a reference the topics contained in the following courses of the undergraduate program of Physics offered by the UC:

• FIZ0121 – Classical Mechanics I
• FIZ0222 – Classical Mechanics II
• FIZ0221 – Electricity and Magnetism
• FIZ0321 – Electromagnetic Theory
• FIZ0322 – Quantum Physics I
• FIZ0412 – Quantum Physics II
• FIZ0411 – Statistical Mechanics

Past qualifying exams

PhD students web

Health

Do you have health or academic problems?

For health and academic performance problems you can contact the Student Health Direction (in spanish).

For teacher-student problems and academic performance problems you can talk to the program director or the graduate studies director. 

Internationalization

The Doctoral Program of the Institute of Physics is part of the list of programs benefited by the agreement signed between the UC and the Ministry of Education that contributes to the organization of activities to promote the international student exchange for academic and research purposes. An example of that is the Summer Schools, Academic Missions, and Contests that support economically the students of the UC to do internships abroad.

International Cooperation Agreements

Since more than 20 years, the International Exchange Program of the UC makes possible that students from other universities of the world came to the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile to study for a semester or a year.

Through an official agreement between the Universities, the students of both institutions pay the fee in the university that he/she came from and is liberated from pay the fee of the university where he/she will do his exchange. More information here.

List of International Universities that the UC has agreements.

International Ph.D. in Sciences

In 2016, the UC signed an agreement with tres catholic universities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Bélgica), University of Notre Dame du Lac (USA) and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italia), with the purpose of impulse the establishment of an international scientific research network that allows the students of the Institute of Physics UC study an International Doctoral Program in Sciences. In addition, this program also applies to different sciences areas such as physics, astrophysics, mathematics, chemistry, nanotechnology, biochemistry and biology. More information here.

Elective courses

The Institute of Physics offers the following elective courses for the postgraduate students. If the students have interest in taking one or more of these courses during the next academic year, we thankful write an email to postgrado@fis.uc.cl informing his/her interest.