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Call for PhD positions at the University of Trento

The University of Trento welcomes applications for admission to the 40th cycle of the PhD in Physics, for positions starting on November 1, 2024 (see here for Italian link, here for English link, and here for much more detailed information): this year we have a total of 19 positions, 14 of which with scholarship, and 4 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 Prof. Rinaldi or Dr. Vagnozzi) would be competing for these 4 “open positions”. Another possible channel for working with us is to apply for one of the 3 INFN funded-positions (Section “D, E - 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). For a rough guideline on possible topics one could work on with us, please see this link, section “First call 40°cycle - Other research topics”, subsection “FT - Theoretical and computational physics”, and refer to the topics “Dark matter and dark energy in the era of precision multi-messenger cosmology and cosmic tensions (Vagnozzi)”, and “Quantum aspects of scale-invariant gravity (Rinaldi)”. We stress that competition for these positions is extremely strong, with an oversubscription ratio much higher than for the other (reserved) positions: a corollary is that there is no guarantee 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 do it very seriously. The application deadline is May 15, 2024 at 16:00 Italy time, but applicants are strongly encouraged to apply well in advance of the deadline - if you are interested in working within our group, please do not hesitate to reach out either to us and apply as soon as possible!