Welcome to the Earth Sciences and Energy Department (DCTE)
Welcome to the Earth Sciences and Energy Department (Departamento de Ciências da Terra e Energia - DCTE) at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. This vibrant community of students, teachers, researchers, and technicians works tirelessly to better understand and characterise the dynamics of Planet Earth, while also addressing challenges related to the Sustainable Development of Human Civilization. This constant effort drives the pursuit of innovative solutions and methodological and technological improvements that also consider the emerging scientific challenges and paradigms, from which we point out those related to Climate Change, Oceans, Natural Hazards and Risks, and ongoing Transitions (energy and digital, among others).
Most of the scholars at DCTE are members of the FCUL's Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL) research unit, Associate Laboratory, with which we share the mission of knowledge creation and transfer. Research conducted in several domains of Earth Sciences and Energy is ruled by high quality standards and involves several networks of national and international collaboration, in addition to tight links with public and private entities of diverse scope and committed to different sectors of economic activity, environment regulation and monitoring, land use planning and management, and geological heritage inventory and administration.
At DCTE we are highly motivated and committed in sharing knowledge and passion for discovery in the multiple fields of Earth Sciences and Energy. Eclectic training of recognised quality offered in all the University Education Cycles combines conventional approaches (in classroom, laboratory or field work contexts) with procedures targeting the development of competences in different numerical programming and modelling techniques, useful in a wide range of professions. The training offered by DCTE is therefore of broad spectrum, promoting multidisciplinary learning oriented to problem-solving issues, autonomy consolidation and accountability. It has competitive attributes, nationally and internationally, leading to the strengthening of employability in general. Different training components vary according to the specific objectives stated for the curricular plans that support: (1) the four Bachelor study cycles in Energy and Environment Engineering, Geospatial Engineering, Geology, and Meteorology, Oceanography and Geophysics; (2) the four Master courses in Geophysical Sciences, Energy and Environment Engineering, Geospatial Engineering and Geology; and (3) the three PhD programmes in Geophysical Sciences and Geoinformation, Geology and Sustainable Energy Systems. A quick look at these curricular plans, along with the opportunities opened by supplementary minor and post-graduation offers (Courses | Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa), provides insight into the scope of the educational project coordinated by DCTE and its associated challenges.
We strive to provide students with all the training needed to become competent and inquisitive professionals, able to question and to seek for answers that allow them to achieve increasing levels of differentiated understanding of the World, making them environmentally and socially responsible citizens.
The DCTE is open to anyone who wants to know it and share the fascination of discovering the geodiversity and evolutionary dynamics of Planet Earth, as well as their remarkable intertwines with Life and the development of Human Civilization.
António Mateus
Head of Department