PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Petroleum Engineering in Italy

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...

New research opportunity at CNR Istituto di Ricerca Sulle Acque (IRSA) in Montelibretti (Rome), Italy, within the BioSpell project. The project focuses on the links between biofilm structure , physiology , and the occurrence of spontaneous electric fields within biomass. The work involves developing natural biofilms and granules, as well as artificially engineered systems using hydrogels , alginate , and related methods. Research activities include biofilm growth, cellular colonization, and meta...

The University of Pisa is recruiting a doctoral candidate for MSCA Doctoral Network IDEAS, position DC14: 4D Biopharmaceuticals with electromagnetically activated functionalities . This PhD is part of a larger European network, IDEAS, focused on improving drug efficacy with next-generation amorphous materials and training early-stage researchers in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary pharmaceutical materials science. The project is hosted by the DICI – Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering ...

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy) is advertising a two-year post-doctoral research contract (“contratto di ricerca”) within the SCI-PET project: Socioeconomic and Climate Inequality: Understanding Disparities in Emissions, Climate Impacts and Perceptions to Design Policy for an Equitable Transition . The position is centered on Economics with a strong interdisciplinary angle, especially climate change , climate policy , emissions , distributional impacts , and inequality. The successful c...

Postdoctoral opportunity at the University of Padova , Italy, within the AQUICIRC project: Managed Aquifer Recharge for a Circular Water Future . The position focuses on groundwater modelling , contaminant transport , reactive transport , and sustainable water management . The successful candidate will develop, calibrate, and validate numerical models of groundwater flow and reactive transport in Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) systems, investigate contaminant fate and transport, and evaluate str...

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...

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...

PhD opportunity at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy focused on legume ecosystem services and weed flora in agricultural systems. The project is linked to the VALERECO and SOILRES projects and examines how including legume crops in a cereal-based rotation affects ecosystem services, soil biological quality, and spontaneous flora/weed communities. The research combines field sampling , soil and crop measurements , weed flora data analysis , and work across project partners. The selected P...

Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy is advertising a PhD position in Microbial Populations in Food and Agro-Environmental Matrices . The project sits within Agricultural Sciences and combines classical microbiology with molecular methods to study microbial communities in food and agro-environmental samples. The research includes culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches: quantifying main microbial groups with conventional microbiological techniques and selective/diffe...