The University of Trento welcomes applications for admission to the 41st cycle of the PhD in Physics, for positions starting on November 1, 2025 (see here for Italian link, here for English link, scroll to “Bando di ammissione” and “Admission call” respectively, and here for much more detailed information): this year we have a total of 20 positions, 17 of which with scholarship, and 6 of which are “open positions”, i.e. not tied to any specific topic. Applicants interested in working within the Theoretical Gravitation and Cosmology group (basically either with me or Prof. Rinaldi) would be competing for these 6 “open positions” (those referred to as “University of Trento” in the Table on Page 2 of the admission call) - however, another possible channel for working with us is to apply for one of the 3 INFN funded-positions (Section “F, G - Particle, astroparticle, nuclear, theoretical physics, related technologies and applications, including medical Physics”), which are de facto “open positions” (as long as the topic one ends up working on is related to INFN research themes, for instance the group’s current PhD students Chiara Cecchini and Davide Pedrotti were awarded one of these positions). It goes without saying that competition for these open positions is extremely strong, with an oversubscription ratio much higher than for the other (reserved) positions: there is, therefore, no guarantee that our group will be taking new PhD students, given that it really depends on the personal interests of those who will be awarded these positions - if you are interested in working with us, please make this very clear in your “lettera motivazionale” (“statement of purpose”), which plays an extremely important role in the evaluation of candidates, so please take it very seriously. In any case, I can anticipate that I will be taking at most one new PhD student, preferentially working on cosmology. The application deadline is June 12, 2025 at 16:00 Italy time, but interested applicants are strongly encouraged to apply well in advance of the deadline.
Congratulations to Giovanni Piccoli!
Congratulations to Giovanni Piccoli, who has been offered a PhD position at the University of Zurich, in the group of Jaiyul Yoo! Giovanni will be leaving my group in September to move to Zurich. Congratulations Giovanni, good luck for this new adventure in your life, and looking forward to reading your works!