PhD in Complex Systems for Physical, Socio-economic and Life Sciences
The Department of Physics and Astronomy selects a number of Italian and foreign students who hold a Master's Degree for admission to the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Complex Systems for Physical, Socio-economical and Life Sciences.
The call for 2020 is available at this link - 1 PhD position is reserved to students who got their master degree abroad.
Criteria adopted for the evaluation of the candidates
Evaluation of the candidates' cv
Evaluation of the interview
Final evaluation
The PhD Coordinator is prof. Andrea Rapisarda
Board of Professors
Dirk Helbing - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Santo Fortunato - Indiana University, USA
Constantino Tsallis - Centro Brasileiro de Pequisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA, CSH Vienna, Austria
Marco Oggioni - Leicester University, UK
Alessandro Pluchino - Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana", Università di Catania
Vito Latora - Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana", Università di Catania, CSH Vienna, Austria
Rosario N. Mantegna - Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università di Palermo, CSH Vienna, Austria
Christian Mulder - Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali Università di Catania
Agatino Musumarra - Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana", Università di Catania
Salvatore Tudisco - INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud
Alfredo Pulvirenti - Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università di Catania
Salvatore Alaimo - Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università di Catania
Giovanni Giuffrida - Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Catania
Davide Bennato - Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Catania
Alessio Emanuele Biondo - Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa, Università di Catania
Salvatore Cannella - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università di Catania
Francesco Martinico - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università di Catania
Sergio Fichera - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura, Università di Catania
Maria Carmela Santagati - Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Biotecnologiche, Università di Catania
Cinzia Di Pietro - Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Biotecnologiche, Università di Catania
Rita Barone - Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università di Catania
Marco Ragusa - Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Biotecnologiche, Università di Catania
Teaching activity
This PhD course provides a training offer of lectures for the first two years, for a total of 18 credits, which includes six courses of your choice (from 2 credits, taught by professors of the College) and from specialized courses organized by universities and / or Italian (and foreign) research institutions plus a course (6 credits) taken from the Master's Degree courses of the departments of the doctoral school professors. The courses organized by the University of Catania and by the Italian and foreign institutions replace the training courses provided and are assessed by 2 or more credits depending on the duration and / or the order requested from the student. The student can replace three of the two-credit courses with a second course borrowed from the ordinary courses included in the Master's Degree courses. Typically the recommended courses for doctoral students concern very innovative bioinformatics topics, complex systems, complex networks, big data statistical analysis, computational social sciences, smart cities, econophysics and sociophysics. Participation in international schools is an integrated part of the training, including those of the Lipari summer schools on social and complex computational systems and computational life sciences are held annually in Lipari (see the link http://lipari.cs.unict.it/LipariSchool). These schools host every year (both Italian and foreign) of the highest international standing (sometimes even Nobel laureates) and both students can participate in contact with frontier research topics and start important scientific collaborations with documents of very high level that can follow up periods of stay abroad for the development of its research project in the three years of the doctorate.
More information can be found at this official page of the Catania university.