PhD Program of National Interest in Technologies for fundamental research in Physics and Astrophysics – deadline: September 4th 2023
The University of Padua, in partneship with 10 Italian Universities, INFN and INAF, is launching a national PhD Programme in Technologies for fundamental research in Physics and Astrophysics, a study track with strong multidisciplinary features, aiming to develop technological and engineering expertise and skills that are essential for fundamental research in Physics and Astrophysics.
The training programme is based on the development of a research project, original and relevant for the progress of knowledge in the field of Technologies for fundamental research in Physics and Astrophysics. The research project will be based on one of the five available curricula of the PhD course.
It will also provide the PhD students with a set of tools and skills that will allow them to play a leading role in the field of cutting-edge technologies used in both public and private research and in the transfer of these technologies towards the national production chain.
30 scholarships are available.
The PhD course is divided into five curricula, spanning all thematic aspects of Technologies for fundamental research in Physics and Astrophysics:
- Mechanics focuses on the use and development of advanced methodologies and technologies in the fields of additive manufacturing, materials, cryogenics, ultra-high vacuum, metrology, mechatronics and multi-physics simulations and analyses.
- Elecronics centres on analogic a digital micro-electronics for detector read-out, networks of sensors and detectors, electrodynamics, magnetism, radiation resistant electronics, radio frequency electronics for detectors, power electronics for detectors, electronics for control systems, diagnostics and safety of accelerators and detectors, radio communication systems.
- Computing and information technology is about the implementation of computing technologies and networks, supercomputing methods and applications, Big Data, storage and the use of AI.
- Detectors, Lasers and Optics reunites the technologies for radiation detectors, for optical, infrared and high energy detectors, as well as laser, optical and optomechanical technologies.
- Electrotechnics and electrotechnics for accelerators focuses on technologies applied to the creation of extremely intense electromagnetic fields for accelerators, which include electromagnets, radiofrequency cavities and transmission systems, operating in particular in a regime of superconductivity, permanent magnets and high-performance power systems
INFN scholarships
INFN – Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
CURRICULUM: Mechanics
TOPIC: Study, realization and optimization of cryogenic components for Kelvin (K) and milliKelvin (mK) applications
INFN – Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
CURRICULUM: Electrotechnics and electrotechnics for accelerators
TOPIC: Development of innovative robotic systems for remote inspections and interventions in experimental areas
INFN – Sezione di Bari
CURRICULUM: Elecronics
TOPIC: Design of read-out electronics in 28 nm CMOS technology for next generation pixel detectors
INFN – Sezione di Bari
CURRICULUM: Computing and information technology
TOPIC: Addressing large-scale data processing challenges with solutions tailored for AI-oriented scientific use-cases
INFN – Sezione di Cagliari
CURRICULUM: Detectors, Lasers and Optics
TOPIC: High spatial and temporal resolution pixelated radiation sensors for next generation experiments in fundamental physics
INFN – Sezione di Roma 1
CURRICULUM: Computing and information technology
TOPIC: Development and porting of artificial intelligence algorithms on FPGA for nanosecond inference in real-time systems of high energy physics experiments
INFN – Sezione di Roma 2
CURRICULUM: Computing and information technology
TOPIC: Machine Learning techniques for Big Data analysis in space-borne astroparticle physics experiments
INFN – Sezione di Roma 3
CURRICULUM: Elecronics
TOPIC: Image recognition development on FPGA through AI in harsh environment
INFN – Sezione di Napoli
TOPIC: free topic
INFN – Sezione di Padova
CURRICULUM: Elecronics
TOPIC: CAP – CMOS Advanced Pixels
INFN- Sezione di Perugia
CURRICULUM: Detectors, Lasers and Optics
TOPIC: Integrated sensors and read-out electronics technologies development for High Energy Physics experiments
TOPIC – Sezione di Torino
CURRICULUM: Computing and information technology
SUBJECT: Advanced computing systems for Gravitational-wave research
Info and call
https://www.unipd.it/en/national-phd-programme-technologies-fundamental-research-physics-astrophysics
Deadline
September 4th 2023
