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Internships and double degrees

Student and doctoral internships run within:

The department holds active agreements with universities and research centres in four countries. These are not one-off trips but standing programmes: a student or doctoral candidate can apply during their studies, and the department helps with paperwork and scientific supervision. Positions in the USA, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Czechia and Poland are available separately.

Partnership with Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) under grants of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

A short research internship in Chemnitz for master’s students – with travel costs reimbursed. The student works in a German research group on their own topic and often brings home a ready chapter of their master’s thesis.

With the same university the department runs certificate programmes in English – Advanced Microscopy Techniques and Advanced Functional Materials, 10 ECTS credits each.

Співробітники кафедри оптики завантажують зразок у растровий електронний мікроскоп The FEI scanning electron microscope – the Advanced Microscopy Techniques certificate programme, run together with Chemnitz, is taught on it

Cooperation agreements with the European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility

The European XFEL near Hamburg is the world’s most powerful X-ray free-electron laser: a three-kilometre tunnel and pulses a few femtoseconds long that let you film the “movie” of a chemical reaction at the level of individual atoms.

The agreement gives our students and doctoral candidates access to internships at this facility – a chance to work on equipment that Ukraine does not have and will not have.

Науковець кафедри оптики біля конфокального раманівського спектрометра Renishaw The Renishaw Raman spectrometer at the department – where the work begins that later continues at the large facilities

Cooperation agreements with Shizuoka University (Japan)

An exchange of young researchers and a double degree programme. The partnership with our Japanese colleagues goes back a long way: researchers from Japan regularly visit the department, and Shizuoka University is among the co-organisers of our SPO symposium.

Together with Le Mans University (France)

The department’s partners abroad:

Le Mans University, France – internship opportunities for students.

Shizuoka University, Japan – internships and joint research.

Questions about current opportunities – at optics.phys@knu.ua

Together with Le Mans University (France)
Together with Shizuoka University (Japan)

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  • For applicants
    • Junior Academy of Sciences (MAN)
  • Study with us
    • Bachelor’s programme
    • Master’s programme
    • Doctoral studies
    • Microcredential programmes
    • Documentation
    • Teaching practicums
  • Research
    • Laboratories
    • SPO – International Symposium on Photonics and Optics
    • Research projects
    • Publications
    • Research directions
  • International
    • Scholarships and grants
    • Internships and double degrees
  • News
  • About the department
    • People
    • Graduates
    • History
    • Partners
    • Student society
  • Contacts
  • UA
  • EN
DEPARTMENT OF OPTICS

    Phone: +38 067 401 58 16 Email: optics.phys@knu.ua
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