PhD Degrees

Positions and Scholaships
a.y. 2024/2025 - cycle 40

Here you can find the list of PhD Programmes with indication of positions available for Academic Year 2024/2025 (cycle 40), with scholarships and scholarships bound to specific research topics.
More details on constraints, obligations and requirements for each scholarship can be found in Annex A to the Call.

Annex A – places with scholarship: 9 of which:

  • 1 linked to the research topic “Synthesis of polycarbonates starting from diols of renewable origin through ring-opening polymerization reactions in the presence of organo- and/or bio-catalysts”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Optical NanoThermometry using Luminescence and Raman Spectroscopies”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Development of a multi-functionalized microneedle bioSENSor as A novel device To Investigate ON a 3D skin model pyroptosis: a new biomarker for diagnosis and disease activity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Discovery, synthesis and bioconjugation of cyclic peptides for precision delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Self-healing renders for the retrofit of historic buildings” funded by EURAC Research Centre
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Nanostructured materials, biopolymers, and 2D materials in mosaic restoration" funded by the Italian Institute of Technology IIT – Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT).

Annex A – places with scholarship: 7 of which:

  • 1 linked to the PhD in partnership with South Denmark University (Denmark)
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Management and supervision of sustainability risks in business and economics law”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Vulnerability, market and remedies”.

Annex A – places with scholarship: 5

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 1

Annex A – places with scholarship: 8 of which:

  • 1 linked to the Philosophy curriculum, within the framework of the PhD programme in partnership with Université Paris I Panthéon – Sorbonne (France)
  • 1 dedicated to research in the field of late Renaissance or early modern philosophy
  • 2  open to proposals in the fields of natural and cognitive science epistemology, contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis, philosophy of language, semiotics, literary studies, translation studies, psychology of learning, and critical pedagogy
  • 1 supports a research of historical epistemology on the intellectual world of early AI, connectionism, and psychometrics
  • 1 linked ) to the research topic “The political epistemology and environmental aesthetics of interdependency and invisibility: the case of microbiome research”.

Annex A – places with scholarship: 8 of which:

  • 1 linked to the topic “Cybersecurity” in the framework of the PhD Programme in partnership with the Masarykova Univerzita (Czech Republic)
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Machine Learning Methods in Environmental Sciences”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Artificial intelligence and computer vision models for polar science and ice core image analysis”
  • 2  linked to the research topic “Compressed Indexes for Regular Languages with Applications to Computational Pan-genomics”

Places reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 1

Annex A – places with scholarship: 4 of which:

  • 1 linked to the PhD Programme in partnership with the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (Austria)

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states (China Scholarship Council – CSC): 1

Annex A – places with scholarship: 8 of which:

  • 1 linked to the PhD Programme in partnership with Sorbonne Université (France)
  • 1 linked to the PhD Programme in partnership with Univerza Na Primorskem/University of Primorska (Slovenia)
  • 3 linked to the research topic “Paths of cultural, linguistic and literary adaptation, expressed through the analysis of the transformation of texts and genres across the centuries and geographical areas and as language adaptation, in the interaction between languages, contexts and linguistic variations”
  • 1 linked to the research topic "Modeling and development of an integrated digital edition of the Leges Langobardorum".

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 1

Annex A – places with scholarship: 5 of which:

  • 1 linked to the topic “Business administration and management”, in the framework of the PhD Programme in partnership with SKEMA Business School (France)

Annex A – places with scholarship: 10 of which:

  • 4 funded by the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change – CMCC
  • 1 funded by Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A..

Annex A – places with scholarship: 11 of which:

  • 1 linked to the topic “Biomolecular and Material Science and Technology", within the framework of the partnership with the Kyoto Institute of Technology - KIT (Japan)
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Gut microbiota dynamics to SARS-CoV-2 infection in a gut in-vitro system”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Development of amperometric sensors for health”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Computational design and screening of cyclic peptides for precision delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids”
  • 4 linked to the research topic “Development, production and application of targeted therapies in cancer and human diseases” funded by the National Cancer Center - Centro di Riferimento Oncologico - CRO Aviano
  • 1 linked to the rearch topic “Nanostructured materials for the development of protective coatings for frescoes” funded by the Italian Institute of Technology IIT - Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT)
  • 1 linked ti the topic “Nanostructured materials in synergy with 2D materials for the protection of archaeological metallic objects” funded by the Italian Institute of Technology IIT - Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT)

Annex A – places with scholarship: 10 of which:

  • 1 linked to the research topic: “Monitoring and forecasting coastal flooding via webcams, remote sensing and numerical modelling” co-funded by ISMAR-CNR Venice
  • 1 linked to the research topic: “Application of underwater photogrammetry to the study of coastal and lagoon ecosystems, with a special reference to monitoring benthic habitats and communities” co-funded by ISMAR-CNR Venice
  • 1 linked to research topic “Valorization of organic wastes and effluents from the agricultural/food/industrial sector through biotechnological processes for the manufacturing of bio-based products” co-funded by CHEERS Srl spin-off Università Cà Foscari Venezia
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Chemical characterization and development of informatic tools for investigating emerging contaminants in environmental and biological matrices”
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Development and application of modelling tools for fate and transport of priority and emerging contaminants in the Northern Adriatic Sea” co-funded by ISMAR-CNR Venice
  • 1 linked to the research topic “Distribution and evolution of marine habitats in coastal and transitional environments” funded by ISMAR-CNR Venice
  • 1 linked to rhe resarch topic “AI-based identification of anthropogenic and environmental traces on remote sensing data” funded by the Italian Institute of Technology-Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology (CCHT)

Annex A – places with scholarship: 11 of which:

  • 3 funded by University of Trieste
  • 3 funded by University of Udine
  • 1 linked to the research topic "Acculturation Processes".

Annex A – places with scholarship: 4

Annex A – places with scholarship: 9 on which:

  • 4 on a free research topic or on transcultural research topics (read Annex A for more details)
  • 1 on themes aligned with the research conducted by the MaP center (study of cultural, social, political, economic, and religious interactions across Europe, the Mediterranean region, and Asia) (A1.1)
  • 2 on research topics included one of the research lines of the project (A.1.3)
  • 1 linked to the project “Biblia Constantiniana - Le Scritture dell’Impero” funded by Apulia Region through the Centro Studi Educativi of Milan
  • 1 having as reserch objecton Qu’ran as a primary source in early Arabic grammatical literature”.
     

Placed reserved to scholarship holders of foreign states: 3

PhD Inter-University Programmes administered by other Universities

Please visit University of Padua website for all information about this Call for Application.