Postdoc Opportunities in Environmental Sustainability in Italy

Postdoctoral opening at Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. for the ESCA Microscopy beamline in Trieste, Italy. The position focuses on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) , photoemission microscopy , surface analysis, and spatially resolved studies of materials and nanostructures. The successful candidate will work on chemical and electronic characterization of advanced materials such as functionalized 2D materials, solid oxide fuel cells, semiconducting nanowires, transparent conductive ox...

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...

Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are available at the University of Milan in the Department of Social and Political Sciences as part of the INTEGRED Horizon Europe Project . The research focus is the evaluation of educational policies , making this a strong opportunity for candidates with interests in political science , public policy , sociology , economics , development studies , and related policy evaluation methods. Eligibility highlights: applicants should have a PhD in Political Sci...

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia is advertising a postdoctoral position in Economics with a focus on political economy and the topic “Economics of talent - talent identification, development and allocation across society.” The appointment is a public selection procedure under article 22-bis of Italian Law No. 240/2010. The academic recruitment field is 13/ECON-01 Political Economy and the academic discipline is ECON-01/A Political Economy . The tutor/supervisor listed in the post is Prof. Fabio Mi...

Two postdoctoral opportunities are available at the University of Milan within INTEGRED , a Horizon Europe project focused on educational policy evaluation , early school leaving , and educational inequalities . The project is multidisciplinary and welcomes researchers with backgrounds in economics , education , political science , sociology , and related fields. One position is aimed at candidates with expertise in qualitative research , policy analysis , and mixed methods . The other position ...

Upcoming postdoctoral and predoctoral opportunities are being prepared by the Colombi and Leonzino labs in a collaborative project based at IGM-CNR in Pavia and IN-CNR at Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano, Italy . The research focuses on organelle communication , especially membrane contact sites between organelles, and how these processes control organelle dynamics and function. The project also investigates how disruption of these mechanisms contributes to neurodegenerative disease , incl...