PhD programme in Physics

Department

Physics Department of the University of Torino - Doctoral School of the University of Torino 

Main research activities/topics/projects

Main PhD research activities/topics:

- Ground- and space-based experimental astrophysics

- Astrophysical plasmas

- Heliophysics and minor bodies of solar system

- Extrasolar planets and planetology

- Stellar evolution and Milky Way

- Galaxies and cosmology

- Gravitational waves

- Climate and atmospheric physics

- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography

- Neutron Physics

- Cosmic rays

- Experimental nuclear physics

- Experimental quark-gluon plasma physics

- Experimental high energy physics

- Design of electronics and microelectronics and new technologies for particle detectors

- Medical physics

- Cultural heritage physics

- Innovative materials and micro/nano-devices

- Dynamical systems, turbulence and nonlinear waves

- Physical modelling of biological systems

- Lattice field theory and integrable models

- Theoretical astroparticle physics

- String theory and supergravity

- Nuclear theory and quark-gluon plasma physics

- Phenomenology of elementary particles

- Physics education and history of physics

Working language

English

Special entry requirements

Strong scientific background at Master Degree level

Duration in months (min-max)

PhD sandwich: 1 - 6