Professional and Graduate Programs
Training the next generation of scientists is a key goal of DigiCrop.Net. All participating institutions offer targeted training for their graduate and postgraduate students with a focus on aiding in the development of interdisciplinary skills for the academic and non-academic job market.
ETH Zürich
Individual Doctorate at ETH Zürich
Doctoral studies are conducted on an individual basis within professor’s groups and laboratories at ETH Zürich. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD, please reach out to individual professors. An overview of scientists from ETH Zürich involved in DigiCrop.Net can be found here.
PhenoRob at the University of Bonn
PhenoRob Graduate Training Program
PhenoRob supports graduate students through an interdisciplinary portfolio of offers that make up the Cluster of Excellence’s Graduate Training Program. The offers span from research-oriented courses on mobile robotics to soft skills courses on video production. The program is tailored specifically to PhenoRob PhD students’ needs and encourages interdisciplinarity and exchange of ideas within the Cluster.
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Individual Doctorate at the University of Bonn
In addition top structured gradute programs, students can apply for PhD position with individual professors and conduct research as part of their research groups. Scientists in PhenoRob have backgrounds in computer science, geodesy, robotics, plant science, soil science, economics, and environmental science and offer doctoral posistions all across the board.
AIFARMS at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digital Agriculture Professional Certificates
With an advanced math and computer science focus, the interdisciplinary digital agriculture professional certificates program is designed for students and working professionals interested in learning the in-depth technical aspects of digital agriculture in a fully online environment. Certificates are earned with 12 credit hours of courses and can be transferred to the master’s degree program.
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Professional Program: Masters of Engineering in Digital Agriculture degree
With an advanced math and computer science focus, the interdisciplinary online, non-thesis Master of Engineering in Digital Agriculture degree. Designed for students and working professionals interested in learning the in-depth technical aspects of digital agriculture in a fully online environment, the programs focuses on training and application of the technology making the agricultural system more efficient, resilient and sustainable.
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Crop Sciences, PhD Program
The Department of Crop Sciences advances agriculture through local and international research to increase food security while protecting the environment. The internationally recognized faculty leads cutting-edge research programs that educate the next generation of agricultural professionals.
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Agricultural & Applied Economics, PhD Program
Students pursue coursework in theory, quantitative methods, and their area of specialization. The Doctor of Philosophy is a research-oriented degree that prepares successful candidates for positions in higher education, governmental agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and the research and management functions of the private sector.
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Agricultural & Biological Engineering, PhD Program
Current research interests of the faculty include Bioenvironmental Engineering, Biological Engineering, Food and Bioprocess Engineering, Off-Road Equipment Engineering, and Soil and Water Resources Engineering.
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Bioengineering, PhD Program
Learn from experts at the Bioengineering faculty who are performing research in the areas of Bio-Imaging at Multi-Scale, Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Engineering, Bio-Micro and Nanotechnology, Computational and Systems Bioengineering, and Synthetic Bioengineering.
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Computer Science, PhD Program
Illinois has been an international leader in computing research for almost five decades. Broadly organized around 11 research areas, more than 95 faculty members conduct research with over 545 graduate students. They regularly collaborate with researchers across campus, in other departments or research units.
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Plant Biology, PhD Program
The Department teaches and conducts foundational research in plant biology. Its focus is integrative. Biological processes are investigated at multiple levels of organization using molecular, biochemical, physiological, morphological, and ecological approaches.
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Wageningen University and Research
PE&RC – The Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation
The Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC) is a collaborative research and PhD training institute, coordinated by Wageningen University (WU). Members of PE&RC are academic staff, postdocs and PhD candidates of Wageningen University, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Radboud University, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Central focus of the collaboration is the PhD programme that is embedded in a coherent and productive research environment that aims to perform frontier academic research of the highest quality. Click here to learn more.