PhD Opportunities in Materials Science in Italy

The Sustain Vitis MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network offers 15 fully funded PhD positions focused on the sustainability and innovation of viticulture and enology across Europe. Fondazione Edmund Mach coordinates the network, with participating institutions including Hochschule Geisenheim University, the University of Bordeaux, and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, alongside additional research and industrial partners. The doctoral projects span interdisciplinary research in grapevine bi...

The University of Padua’s Department of Chemical Sciences, through the MOC Laboratories, is offering two doctoral positions in the POLY4EV Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, focused on molecularly designed polymers for electric vehicles. The first PhD project, Architecturally Controlled Polymers for EV Lubricants , investigates polymer synthesis and molecular architecture, including branched and cyclic polymers. The research targets advanced lubrication materials, friction and wear reducti...

Human Technopole in Milan, Italy, is offering 12 fully funded PhD projects through the HT PhD Programme in partnership with The Open University, UK. The programme covers a broad range of life-science and computational research areas, including computational biology, genetics, machine learning, neuroscience, microscopy, cancer biology, and plant biology. Projects are designed for doctoral researchers interested in using advanced biological, quantitative, and computational approaches to investigat...

Project overview: The MOC Lab at the University of Padova is recruiting two doctoral researchers for the POLY4EV Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, an international consortium focused on polymer chemistry, tribology, thermal management and electric-vehicle technologies. Research environment: The position is embedded in the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Padova and its MOC Laboratories, where the group develops advanced polymeric materials through molecular design and ...

The Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) at the University of Padova is offering two fully funded PhD positions as MSCA Doctoral Candidates within the Horizon Europe TURBO-IMPACT Doctoral Network. The positions are hosted by the Manufacturing Technologies & Metrology research group and address measurement and manufacturing challenges for next-generation turbomachinery. The DC13 project, Advancing X-ray Computed Tomography Metrology for Next-Generation Turbomachinery , focuses on the de...

Politecnico di Torino is seeking a PhD candidate to join its Multi-Scale Modeling Laboratory (SMaLL) through the newly funded EIC Pathfinder Open project IONFLUX. The project explores whether artificial intelligence and molecular-level understanding can be combined to discover entirely new energy-storage materials. The doctoral researcher will focus on adaptive materials for next-generation sodium batteries, working at the intersection of molecular simulations, machine learning, and materials sc...

POLY4EV is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network coordinated through the University of Padova and involving a wide European consortium of universities, research institutes, and industrial partners. The network offers 15 PhD projects focused on designing innovative polymer materials that can improve the efficiency and sustainability of electric vehicles. The research spans several connected themes: polymeric additives for EV lubricants, advanced thermal management materials, and polymeric bin...

This PhD project at Politecnico di Torino focuses on using advanced AI to improve how industrial catalytic systems are explored and optimized. The work addresses a key challenge in sustainable chemical and energy production: traditional experimentation is often slow and costly when many variables and competing objectives must be considered at once. The candidate will develop and apply Sequential Learning and agent-based methods to guide experimentation in complex design spaces. The aim is to acc...

The Multi-Scale Modeling Laboratory (SMaLL) at Politecnico di Torino is recruiting for a PhD position within the European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Open project IONFLUX . The project sits at the intersection of computational materials science , machine learning , and energy storage , with a strong focus on developing AI-guided methods to discover adaptive catholytes for sodium batteries . The doctoral project will run for 3 years and will investigate how molecular composition influence...