PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Data Science in Italy

Three postdoctoral positions are open at the Physics Department of the Università degli Studi di Milano within the European Research Council (ERC) project QuantumFronTiers : two junior postdoc positions and one senior postdoc position. The research focuses on quantum corrections for high-precision scattering processes relevant to the CERN LHC and future lepton colliders. The work will involve developing a high-efficiency computational framework and preparing the ingredients needed for second-ord...

University of Basilicata (UniBas) has announced the PhD Call 2026/2027 for admission to its doctoral programs (XLII Cycle) in Italy. The call covers several research areas, including Architecture , Archaeology , Cultural Heritage , History , Engineering , Sustainable Development , Science , Agricultural , Forest and Food Sciences , Health Sciences , and Mediterranean studies . Available PhD programs include: Cities and Landscapes: Architecture, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, History and Resourc...

Debora Nozza, Assistant Professor at Bocconi University, is hiring a postdoc to join her research group. The post highlights research connected to NLP, language models, information-seeking, fairness, safety, and identity in NLP. The announcement appears alongside EMNLP 2026 in Budapest and references two related papers: WildSEEK: Evaluating Language Models for Information-Seeking and I Am Multitudes: A Survey and Roadmap for Rethinking Identity in NLP . This is a research opportunity for candida...

PhD Opportunity at Politecnico di Torino, Italy The SMILIES Research Group is recruiting a PhD candidate for research on Trusted Open Hardware for Software Defined Vehicles . The project focuses on RISC-V , hardware security , Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) , automotive cybersecurity , and functional safety . This opportunity is aimed at highly motivated candidates with a strong technical background and hands-on experience in computer architecture , embedded systems , hardware design , or ...

Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships (2027–29) in the collaborative research project Connected Teams: Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe . The fellowships are hosted through the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut in collaboration with 4A_Lab, Berlin , Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) , and Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá . The project focuses o...

Postdoctoral opportunity in Computational Biology at Eurac Research , Institute for Biomedicine, in Bolzano, Italy . The position focuses on proteomics , mass spectrometry , multi-omics data integration, and statistical analysis of large-scale biomedical datasets. The work includes processing and analyzing mass spectrometry-based proteomics data, associating proteomics with health traits, and contributing to reproducible research workflows. Required or preferred skills include R and/or Python , ...

Debora Nozza is advertising a 2-year postdoc in NLP and Computational Social Science at MilaNLP / Bocconi University. The project focuses on personalized and subjective NLP , with an emphasis on how people use everyday language technologies and what the social and ethical impacts of those technologies are. This is a strong fit for researchers interested in computer science , natural language processing , computational social science , and adjacent work on language technology, fairness, and socie...

Two postdoctoral opportunities will soon open within the CHROMA project at the University of Perugia , Italy, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering . CHROMA stands for Bioinspired mechanochromic materials: pioneering the future of Structural Health Monitoring and is supported by the FIS 3 Starting Grant programme . The project focuses on mechanochromic materials and smart coatings that change colour in response to mechanical stimuli, with applications in structural health moni...

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa and the BioRobotics Institute are hiring for two research positions in the ERC project EpiC within the SPIS lab. The openings focus on hands-on research at the intersection of robotics , mechatronics , materials science , electrical engineering , and chemical engineering . One position is on autonomous robotic scanning platforms , including low-noise electronics and mechatronics for mapping electrostatic potentials on materials and living organisms. The second ...