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*Admission will be open for academic year 2023-2024


Program Overview


Have you been interested in the mysteries of the Universe: is it possible to prevent an earthquake? How do liquids and gases move in rocks? How to perfect the extraction of oil and solid minerals? How to reduce the damage from natural and manufactured disasters? How to minimize the consequences for the environment when performing large engineering projects? Is it possible to prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth? Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? What is “space weather”? What happens to satellite navigation systems during solar flares and magnetic storms? These and other issues will have to be solved by students specializing in the field of Earth Sciences.

Program curriculum

Core Subjects

Physics of the Earth
Physical Oceanography
Atmospheric Physics
Climate Physics
Geomechanics and Seismology
Computer Modeling and Machine Learning in Geophysics
Methods and Instruments of Geophysics
Data Processing in Geoscience

Career opportunities


The graduates will be able to build careers in research and industrial organizations related to the Earth sciences, energy and resource exploitations, natural and manufactured hazards, disaster preventions, climate change: research institutes, universities, oil production, mining, service companies and so on.

You will be prepared and skilled to deal with the issues of climate change, environmental problems, oil and mineral resource exploration and development, green energy, natural and manufactured hazards, processes in ocean and atmosphere, Earth magnetic field, ionosphere and radio connections.

Program in faces

  • Sergey Turuntaev

    Sergey Turuntaev

    Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,
    Member of the European Geophysical Union (EGU),
    International Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG),
    European Association of Earth Science Scientists and Engineers (EAGE).

    E-mail:s.turuntaev@gmail.com

TOP 5 Subjects to Master

Fundamental Physics and Mathematics
Physics of the Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere
Numerical Modelling
Continuum Mechanics
Climate Physics

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