They can explain the scientific and/or technological background of their thesis and explain the design and choice of methodology used or developed to reach their thesis objective by the scientific method.

They can present their work critically and describe its context clearly.

Students demonstrate their individual ability to operate advanced scientific instrumentation and/or apply advanced research methods (k3).

They know how and when to use correct experimental methods and can plan, develop and adapt techniques and protocols for their project (k5,k6).

Students know how to report their results in a scientific and comprehensive manner (k3).

Students can analyze their results critically and evaluate these in the context of other, published work (k4,k5).

Students can structure their results and derive conclusions from these and suggest future avenues (k4,k5,k6).

Students can compile and present their work in a form suitable for a target audience (k2,k3,k6).

- Application of the scientific method and hypothesis testing

- Principles of research integrity - proper design and experimentation

- Keeping notes of experiments, documentation of processing and analysis

- Statistics and modelling

- Able to make a scientific presentation

- Able to generate figures, schemes, etc. in scientific style

- Able to use tools for scientific presentation