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ARCHAEOLOGY, AND HUMAN SCIENCES (Archeologia, Storia e Scienze dell’Uomo) Coordinator: Prof. Raimondo Zuca E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT (Architettura e Ambiente) Coordinator: Prof. Vincenzo Pascucci E-mail: [email protected]

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES (Scienze Agrarie) Coordinator: Prof. Ignazio Floris E-mail: [email protected]

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES (Scienze Biomediche) Coordinator: Prof. Andrea Piana E-mail: [email protected]

CHEMICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche) Coordinator: Prof. Stefano Enzo E-mail: [email protected]

CULTURES, LITERATURES, AND TERRITORY (Culture, Letterature, Turismo e Territorio) Coordinator: Prof. Fiorenzo Toso E-mail: [email protected]

ECONOMICS, MANAGEMENT AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS Coordinator: Prof. Dimitri Paolini E-mail: [email protected]

JURIDICAL SCIENCES (Scienze Giuridiche) Coordinator: Prof. Michele Maria Comenale Pinto E-mail: [email protected]

LIFE SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGIES (Scienze della Vita e Biotecnologie) Coordinator: Prof. Leonardo A. Sechi E-mail: [email protected]

VETERINARY SCIENCE (Scienze Veterinarie) Coordinator: Prof. Fiammetta Berlinguer E-mail: [email protected]

PhD SCHOOL OF THE OF SASSARI (, ) (Scuola di Dottorato di Ricerca dell’Università degli Studi di Sassari)

Director: Prof. Antonello Cannas Phone: +39 3292604278 E-mail: [email protected] Office: Dr. Anna Paola Vargiu E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Riccardo Zallu E-mail: [email protected]

Website : https://www.uniss.it/didattica/offerta-formativa/formazione-post- laurea/dottorati-di-ricerca PhD School

Brochure «PhD School of the University of Sassari» Prepared by Scuola di Dottorato dell’Università degli Studi di Sassari (Design and Technical Revision by Ana Helena Dias Francesconi, Elisa Campus and Riccardo Zallu) January 2020 (updated July 9, 2020), Sassari, Italy UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI, ITALY PhD School Studying at the University of Sassari & Università degli Studi di Sassari Living in Sassari (Sardegna, Italy)

The PhD School of the University of Sassari is composed of the following: ° 10 PhD Programmes The University of Sassari was founded in the year 1562. It is headquartered in the city of ° 217 PhD students: about 24% are foreigners (15 different countries) and 53% are women Sassari, having units also in , , Nuoro and (Sardinia, Italy). ° 47 doctoral PhD positions in collaboration with companies The University of Sassari has 10 Departments, and approximately 550 professors, 400 ° 85 new doctoral PhD positions with scholarship in the year 2019/2020 technical and administrative staff, and 13,000 students (Italians and foreigners). It also 11 libraries, with about 830,000 books and monographs and more than 44,000 paper and Main Characteristics and Goals electronic journals. There are also 4 large studying rooms opened everyday, besides those ° Centralized administrative services present in the libraries. ° Common educational and training activities of the PhD School The University has many Department and centralized laboratories, a human hospital, an ° Specific teaching and training activities of each PhD Programme animal hospital, 3 research farms, a business incubator and many other facilities that can be ° High interaction between different disciplinary areas, cultural exchange, stimulating and used by PhD students. creative study and research environment ° International exchange: financial support for research training abroad, exchange of There is a University canteen where you can have a delicious meal (lunch and dinner) at an foreign students and visiting professors (including more than 90 foreign visiting affordable price. professors per year), participation at international meetings University housing includes rooms for about 570 students. Private rents in Sassari are not ° Interactions and exchanges with the public and private work world expensive at all. Graduate students normally find housing at walking distance from the ° Laboratory, field, study and library facilities Department where they work, but public transportation can also be used.

Educational and Research Activities The city of Sassari is located in northern Sardinia, a beautiful island in the Mediterranean The PhD School and the PhD Programmes of the University of Sassari organize educational sea. and research activities that include the following: Sassari is a typical medium-size Italian city (130.000 people) with a high-quality of life, which successfully combines the comfort and commodities of a big city with the low cost of ° Basic and applied research, including industrial research living, affordable housing, high security and less stressful way of life and of small towns. ° Disciplinary and interdisciplinary training ° Specific training in planning and conducting research, exploiting research results and Sassari has many entertainment options (e.g. pubs, pizzerias, restaurants, multi-ethnical intellectual property, participating in calls for research projects (basic, applied and food, cinema, theaters, and discos) and a safe and beautiful central area (Piazza Italia, industrial), and gaining knowledge of research systems (national and international), Piazza Castello and via Roma) for having fun and relaxing, when you a need a break from innovation and technological transfer your PhD study and research activities. ° Specific training in communication skills (written and oral presentation, communication There are many paradisiac beaches and archeological sites to visit throughout the Island. in advanced society, use of social networks) Just to give you a few examples, in the area nearby Sassari you can find Alghero, with its ° Employment orientation courses held by specialists (coaches, entrepreneurs, consultants, amazing historical centre, beautiful beaches and fascinating cave, Grotta di Nettuno. university professors) to improve the soft skills of PhD students, as required by the job The fabulous Pelosa beach, near , is only 50 km far, and the Nuraghe Santu Antine, market for highly qualified roles a typical of the Nuragic culture (3,500 years old), is only 30 km far from Sassari. ° Mandatory and optional courses, seminars, workshops and meetings on various topics, many of which are in English There are many flights to come to Sardinia from several Italian cities (e.g. , , ° Improvement of language skills: free Italian language courses for foreigners and English and ) and from abroad. The closest airport to Sassari is the Airport of Alghero language courses are offered by the Linguistic Centre of the University of Sassari (CLA, (AHO), which can be easily reached in 30 minutes by public transportation or car. Other Centro Linguistico di Ateneo ) Sardinia airports are Olbia (OLB) and (CAG). There are also ferryboats to the Island from , Civitavecchia (near Rome), , Trapani, , (), and Toulon and Corsica (). Scholarships Scholarships are funded by various sources (international, national and regional, both public and private). By law the minimum net scholarship is around 1,150 Euro/month.

Research Abroad The PhD School encourages and financially supports PhD students to conduct part of their research (typically at least 6 months) in foreign and research centres, and enterprises. During the period abroad, the scholarship is increased by 50% and the travel costs are often paid by the PhD programmes or other specific funding.

Outcome and Job Opportunities The PhD students of the University of Sassari receive high-level training (theoretical and practical) within each PhD Programme, in order to become highly-qualified, with adequate competence and skills, such as ability to plan, conduct and publish their research following international standards, and decision-making ability to solve problems in complex systems). This allow PhDs of the University of Sassari to successfully enter the national and international research and professional job market.

Duration, Educational Level and Degree Achieved The PhD Course normally lasts 3 years, except for special cases that receive an extended period (e.g. serious sickness and maternity). This tertiary or third-level of education (Dottorato di Ricerca ) gives the title of PhD (Dottore di Ricerca ), fully recognized by the EU and worldwide.

Application Requirements To apply for our PhD Programme, students should have a Master’s degree or a equivalent university degree (at least 4 years of studies after high school). Candidates from all countries are eligible. Language requirements vary with PhD Programme but, in general, a B2-level of English (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages - CEFR) is recommended. Knowledge of Italian language is not requested to access the PhD School but a minimum A2- level of Italian (CEFR) must be acquired before completing the programme.

Selection Process After sending the application form within the established deadline, following the procedure published online, the competitive selection process consists of evaluating the curriculum of the candidate and a research project proposed by the candidate, followed by an oral exam, which can be done via Skype or equivalent systems. The participation of students from different universities and countries is encouraged. Ph.D. School of the University of Sassari

Director: Prof. Antonello Cannas Phone: +39 3292604278 E-mail: [email protected] Office: Dr. Anna Paola Vargiu E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Riccardo Zallu E-mail: [email protected]

Website https://www.uniss.it/didattica/offerta-formativa/formazione-post- laurea/dottorati-di-ricerca PhD in Archaeology, PhD in Economics, History and Management and Human Sciences Quantitative Methods Department of Economics and Department of History, Human Management Sciences and Education The Department of Economics and Management (DiSea) of the University of This Programme provides high-level Sassari is among leading research training in the following subject areas: institutions in Italy for economics, ° Archaeology Candidates with a PhD degree in Archaeology, History and Human management science, and quantitative ° History methods. In fact, in 2018 DiSea was ° Philology and Literature Sciences have the competence and skills funded with 5.2 million euro by the Italian This PhD Programme aims to train ° Human Sciences necessary to apply for a job in Italy and abroad in the following sectors: Ministry of University and Research under qualified researchers in the disciplines the Programme “Departments of of DiSea, through a multidisciplinary The interdisciplinary and multifaceted ° National and international university Excellence”. Based on the long tradition scientific and cultural training that nature of this PhD Programme adopts an systems of quality and success of its Bachelor’s includes highly qualified and specialized integrated approach, which provides a ° National, European and international institutions for the protection, and Master’s Degree Programmes, from courses. stimulating environment for in-depth 2020-2021 DiSea will offer study and research activities in these valorisation and successful an International Ph.D. Programme in The Programme offers an advanced fields. exploitation of cultural heritage ° Archaeological, historical, and Economics and Management. learning plan, with mandatory research- historical-artistic museums and in oriented courses on research methods This Programme aims to train highly The PhD in Economics and archaeological and monumental parks and key topics in economics, qualified PhDs, who can also meet the Management is a full-time, three-year ° Public and private sector, also as management and quantitative studies. scientific demand of the Italian Ministry of advanced Ph.D. Programme for Education and the National Research manager of culture students who want to achieve an Specific teaching activities take place Centre (NRC), and of internationals bodies outstanding training in this field. during the first year, whereas students in research and technology applied to The Programme in Archaeology, History and Human Sciences pursues are expected to work on their thesis in cultural heritage, including protection, The PhD Programme in Economics and internationalisation through agreements the second and third years. Part of these preservation and enhancement of cultural Management consists of the with foreign universities and promotes periods (at least 3 months) are heritage, use and management of innovative following three curricula: the acquisition of qualifications also expected to be abroad. PhD technologies, such as Virtual Archaeology, ° Economics recognized at European and international students will be followed and guided by and the development of interactive 3D ° Management levels. Many research activities are one or more supervisors. software on cultural heritage, in the field of ° Quantitative Methods archaeology, at national and international conducted, locally or abroad, in PhDs in Economics and Management level. collaboration with other national and Research topics include: international research centers. ° Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, can find employment at Italian and foreign universities, research centers, Another aim of this Programme is to give Econometrics, Human Capital & institutions, and companies, in the a high-level preparation also in Educational Economics, Financial public and private sector. humanities, including historical, Economics, and Applied Game geographical, philological-literary fields, Theory (Economics) and human sciences (e.g. philosophical, ° Accounting, Public Administration, social, educational areas), to meet the Business Administration, needs of universities and research Marketing, Business Organization, centres, and also in public and private Corporate Finance, and Banking sectors, where, for example, top (Management) managers in hard science fields are ° Economic Statistics, Demography, required to have a good knowledge of and Mathematical Methods For humanities. Economics (Quantitative Methods) PhD in Veterinary PhD in Science Architecture and Department of Veterinary Environment (in partnership with the Department of Chungnam National University and Architecture, Design and the Universitat Autònoma de Urban Planning Barcelona) (in partnership with This PhD Programme aims at trainning qualified researchers in Veterinary Science PhD carry out their activities in laboratories, Karabuk University, Turkey ) through a multidisciplinary scientific and clinics and other facilities of the Department cultural training, which is also based on of Veterinary Medicine, in processing highly qualified specialization. industries of food of animal origin, and in research institutions affiliated to the Environmental issues require to rethink, in a Main topics studied during the course work The PhD Programme in Veterinary Sciences is Department of Veterinary Medicine of the sustainable manner, ways of inhabiting our include living and evolution of the built; divided into the following two curricula: University of Sassari. towns, the organisation of public spaces and historical architectural and archaeological ° Reproduction, Pathology, Animal breeding territories, the management of biotic and heritage; city and countryside; city of rights; and Welfare PhDs in Veterinary Science are trained to abiotic resources and ecosystems, including environment, territory and landscape; ° Production, Quality and Food Safety work in university and industrial research energy, water and soil, sustainable planning, geology, , pedology and ecology as sector, thus finding a job in national and architectural philosophy, project foundations of the territory; the many The specific learning objectives are: foreign organizations and companies development, urban recovery, and dimensions of the project and the plan; ° understanding the mechanisms involved in research and innovation in the regeneration and design of objects and objects; and aerospace and remote underlying productive and reproductive field of livestock and pet animals, especially communication. monitoring systems. biology and animal welfare, to improve on reproduction techniques, prevention and reproductive performance and treatment of diseases, animal welfare, and This PhD Programme is open to students The highly-qualified PhDs of this Programme profitability of livestock farms animal and food production techniques. from different disciplinary fields who wish to can find a job in the field of research, ° acquiring technical knowledge and understand and analyse the relationships teaching, consulting, and public experience in animal production, to Their competence and skills can be applied in between the built environment and the administration, in management, improve its quality through the the different phases of the supply chain of ecosystems, in order to design, plan and coordination, planning and fundraising appropriate management of resources food of animal origin, by improving livestock manage transformations. This requires a positions. and production processes productive and reproductive management as multidisciplinary approach to the system,, ° studying animal diseases and parasitosis, well as food quality and security. because the boundaries of disciplines and to develop control measures that can their theories do not address the issue of improve the amount and quality of Professionals can be involved in the sustainability in an integrated manner. production, by reducing pharmacological processing and transformation of food of interventions animal origin, by providing consulting The goal of this three-year Programme is to ° investigating the latest surgical, activities for the management of process and allow graduate students to gain obstetrics and internal medicine product safety, traceability, study and comprehensive and deep knowledge on how techniques, to improve veterinary clinical characterization of products, and to achieve sustainability, by dealing with practices development of new products. They can also tangible and intangible objects in connection ° developing specific expertise in the fields work on the management and enhancement with ecosystem functions and structures, by of pharmacology and toxicology, food of the finished product, by providing product learning to redevelop, recover, restore, microbiology, control of abiotic certification consultancy services. rethink and reuse them, by rethinking and contaminants, methods required to recapitulation history, and by redesigning the attain the corporate quality system city, the territory, the landscape and the certification and quality marks environment, including shape and objects. recognized within the EU, in order to enhance the animal products and develop innovative processing techniques PhD in PhD in Agricultural Juridical Sciences Sciences Department of Law Department of Agricultural Sciences

The Programme in Agricultural Sciences The common teaching plan of the PhD in aims to train highly qualified PhDs able to Agricultural Sciences includes several courses conduct research & development and in the following topics: professional activity in the following fields: ° Scientific Communication This PhD Programme in Juridical Sciences This PhD Programme aims to provide the agrometeorology and plant ecophysiology; ° Statistics offers high-level training in the field of law, necessary tools for learning suitable research productivity of agricultural crops; ° Experimental Design with specific attention to transport, methods through the organization of courses, management and protection of agricultural ° Modelling and System Dynamics navigation, production systems and culture, in-depth seminars, conferences and external and forest production systems; ° Research Policy and Planning focusing on local issues, but also topics of collaboration activities. conservation, protection and enhancement ° Ethics in Science national and international interest. of natural resources; biotechnology focusing During the PhD Programme, graduate students on regional, national and international All these courses, together with other The course also focuses on the interrelation work mainly on writing an original production needs; breeding and educational activities, aim to ensure that between law and the economic world, and the monographic study that should provide an reproduction; feeding and nutrition; applied PhD students gain the scientific knowledge collaboration between researchers, thus appropriate scientific contribution to research genetics and selection of livestock, including and skills necessary to plan and conduct overcoming the individualistic approach that in law within the curriculum chosen. the use of molecular biology techniques; research in Agricultural Sciences, perform tends to characterize research in the field of and quality and safety of food products of statistical analysis, describe and interpret law. PhDs in Juridical Sciences are trained to find a animal origin. experimental data, and disseminate and job in Italy and abroad, as follows: publish research findings, according to The PhD Programme in Juridical Sciences has within the national and international The wide range of research areas of this ° international standards. the general objective of training highly university systems Programme is structured in the following five qualified researchers in the following curricula: in European institutions, international Curricula: ° PhDs in Agricultural Sciences get prepared to ° Transport and Navigation, Enterprise and intergovernmental and non-governmental ° Agrometeorology and Ecophysiology of find a high-qualification job at national and Productive Systems Law organizations (NGOs), particularly in the Agricultural and Forest Systems international universities, enterprises and ° Law and Culture field of the unification of law and ° Agricultural and Food Microbial other institutions, in the public and private environmental and cultural law Biotechnology sector, to deal with important agricultural ° in the public and private sector ° Monitoring and Control of Agriculture and and environmental issues. Forestry Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Environments ° Productivity of Cultivated Plants ° Livestock Sciences and Technologies

These curricula have a common teaching plan in Agricultural Sciences as well as specific educational and research activities within each curriculum, in order to better organize the personalized study and research experience of each PhD student. PhD in Cultures, PhD in Biomedical Literatures, Sciences Tourism and Departments involved: Territory Biomedical Science (Head Office) - Clinical and Experimental Department of DUMAS - Medicine Human and Social Sciences Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences The PhD Programme in Cultures, In this Programme, the linguistic, literary, Literatures, Tourism and Territory arts and visual aspects are linked with the The Ph.D. Programme in Biomedical Sciences The PhD program establishes a joint combines the adoption of an study of the territory and the landscape, has the general goal of training highly teaching commission that organizes and interdisciplinary perspective, based on from an anthropic and historical- qualified researchers in scientific and coordinates the educational activity of international comparisons, with a search geographical perspective. In this way, it is methodological areas crucial for basic and each graduate student. for harmonization between local and also possible to acquire research applied research in the field of biomedical global dimensions. knowledge, skills and methodologies sciences, using a multidisciplinary approach. The PhDs in Biomedical Sciences have the related to tourism and landscape science. competence to work in public or private This three-year Programme aims to teach This goal is pursued in collaboration with facilities, with research (basic and applied, PhD students how to: Graduates in this Programme get prepared other Italian and foreign universities or with clinical and laboratory), training and ° develop theoretical and critical tools for jobs in Italy and abroad, as follows: public and private entities that meet high assistance purposes, in order to plan and adapted to the complex cultural and ° at the university system standards of cultural, technical and scientific carry out national and international research social scenario generated by ° at European level, in institutions qualification, as well as adequate facilities projects on various topics, such as globalization, by going back to its responsible for managing and equipment. neuroscience; genetics; molecular, cellular social, cultural and linguistic roots neighborhood policies regarding the and medical physiopathology; public health; ° critically examine the transnational meeting and comparison of different This Ph.D. Programme is structured into the aesthetic adhesive treatments in dynamics of the current society of cultures, and promoting research in following curricula: odontostomatology; gender medicine; and knowledge and, at the same time, that field ° Medical Physiopathology biostatistics. counteract the uncritical homologation ° in bodies and institutions, foundations ° Medical Genetics of contemporary reality, by drawing on and non-governmental organizations ° Medicine of Human Gender, Woman and The PhDs acquire thorough biomedical and the cultural richness of the territory (NGOs) dedicated to research on and Child technological knowledge and skills for and the memory of the past, also in enhancement of cultural heritage ° Neuroscience biotechnological applications that can collaboration with enterprises, local ° in public and private bodies, as cultural ° Molecular Oncology contribute to basic knowledge and to institutions and communities managers, able to attract and manage ° Public Health practical uses in human health, especially to ° increase linguistic, anthropological, funding for regional, national and the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of sociological and literary knowledge and international projects The specific education objectives are: diseases. skills in view of an expansion of ° as organizers and curators of cultural ° Training and research activity on research horizons and international events (festivals, exhibitions, and extended scientific and methodological The training and research activities offered mobility meetings) areas fundamental for basic and by the PhD Programme in Biomedical ° address the linguistic, literary, artistic, ° as qualified experts in museums and applied research in the field of Sciences give the tools to face emerging historical-geographical and socio- other cultural places (planning and biomedical sciences problems and issues that receive increasing cultural fields using a comparative and conducting activities) ° Conduction of the research project of interest and funding by national and interdisciplinary approach, from an ° as communication professionals in the doctorate of the curriculum chosen international organizations. Therefore, PhDs international and transmedial publishing, radio and television using an interdisciplinary approach in Biomedical Sciences can find employment perspective ° Performing specific aspects of the at Italian and foreign universities, public and ° extend the knowledge of the territory, training in other research institutions private research centers, public institutions, considering its local specificities (public and private, Italian and foreign) and companies. compared to other geographical, national and international contexts PhD in Chemical PhD in Life Science and Sciences and Technology Biotechnologies Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Sciences (in partnership with the – Medical, Surgical and Department of Chemical and Experimental Sciences Geological Sciences, )

The PhD Program in Life Sciences and The three-year Ph.D. Programme is The PhD Programme in Chemical Science and Biotechnologies has the general objective The aim of this PhD Programme is to of training highly qualified researchers in characterized by a theoretical and Technology provides high-level training on provide PhD students with high-quality and experimental approach, with teaching these topics: extensive scientific and methodological specialized training in advanced topics of areas of great importance for basic and activities and widely interdisciplinary ° Innovative nanostructured materials Chemical Science and Technology, through research projects (national and ° Physical chemistry of biological systems applied research in the field of biomedical a personalized educational and research sciences. international), to develop and exchange ° Computational modeling and chemistry activity, with the opportunity to knowledge and expertise in rapidly growing ° Industrial catalytic processes Industrial collaborate with national and international This PhD Programme is structured in the sectors such as modern biological and biotechnology highly-qualified research institutions. biomedical sciences. ° Analytical chemistry and surface following subject areas: technology ° Biochemistry, Physiology and This PhD Programme will allow PhDs to Molecular Biology The PhD Program in Life Sciences and ° Surfactants and nanotechnological obtain a profound scientific specialization Biotechnologies provides advanced training applications ° Microbiology and Immunology combined with the necessary cultural ° Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical to graduate students, from Italian and ° Extraction with conventional preparation that will enable them to International Universities, who get a high technologies and supercritical fluids. Proteomics contribute positively to the progress of the ° Evolutionary Biology level of preparation in planning and ° Synthesis and reactivity of organic chemical sciences in the industrial world conducting basic and applied research, by molecules and academic environment, in a context of learning how to develop their own research ° New methods for organic synthesis national and international competition. The main topics studied are the following: projects and, at the same time, acquiring ° Synthesis, characterization, properties the abilities for national and international and reactivity of novel inorganic and ° Animal Biology PhDs in Chemical Sciences and Technology ° Molecular basis of physiological and scientific cooperation. organometallic compounds achieve knowledge and skills to work in the ° Molecular precursors and materials pathological processes industry, occupying highly professional ° Human and Animal medicine The multidisciplinary preparation in the ° Analytical methods and applications positions, and at the university, in national chosen topics and subject areas of the PhD ° Design, synthesis and biological ° Microbial Pathogenicity and international contexts. ° Infection and Autoimmunity program as well as the acquisition of evaluation of small molecules expertise in molecular and evolutionary ° Pharmaceutical chemistry and ° Food technology and pharmaceutical production biology gives PhDs in Life Sciences and technology Biotechnologies the opportunity for a ° Pharmaceutical and toxicological ° Agriculture and farming development environmental protection profitable placement in different work chemical analysis environments. ° Cultural heritage and conservation ° Bioarchaeology techniques