After completing a master's degree in astronomy you will have achieved broad knowledge and skills.
Knowledge
You have an advanced level of understanding of the physical principles that are important in astronomy and astrophysics, which means you:
- have in-depth knowledge within the defined area of astronomy and astrophysics where you will complete a research assignment.
- are able to find relevant scientific texts in new fields and read, understand and summarize them.
- will be able to critically evaluate and analyze data and sources of error.
- are familiar with a wide range of methods from mathematics, statistics, and computer science. This means that you know the most important methods at an advanced level, and are able to find methods that are important to your research assignment, in addition to quickly acquiring sufficient knowledge on time.
Skills
You can develop and apply advanced methods to solve astronomical and astrophysical problems. After gaining your degree, you will be able to:
- develop and apply advanced analytical models.
- develop and apply advanced numerical methods and program large codes that implement these.
- structure, reduce, and present scientific data produced.
- apply known methods to new problems.
- identify and elaborate on relevant astronomical and astrophysical problems. This includes being able to evaluate published work and data within a new topic and propose new and relevant research questions.
General competence
You can find and apply methods from a variety of subjects to solve a professional problem through a major project work. After gaining a degree in astronomy, you will be able to:
- develop towards professional maturity and can work independently.
- communicate professionally, in writing and orally.
- participate in the planning and management of a research project.
- develop a professional intuition and overall understanding to enable you to present and discuss professional topics, results and uncertainties.
You can communicate research questions, analysis and conclusions to both professionals and to the general public. This comprises that you can:
- formulate precisely and scientifically with the correct use of subject terminology and expressions in English in a scientific dissertation.
- present a scientific problem and results of research to both professionals and the general public verbally by the presentation of the master thesis.
- communicate academic topics, analysis and conclusions to the general public in an understandable way.