Postdoc Opportunities in Medical Science in Italy

This postdoctoral position sits within the Eurac Research Institute for Biomedicine in Bolzano’s NOI Techpark, where the team works on precision prevention and the study of genetic, biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors that influence human health. The institute brings together state-of-the-art laboratories, scientific computing resources, and interdisciplinary expertise focused on neurological, cardiovascular, and metabolic health. The successful candidate will join the HEALTH3P init...

This research contract at the Politecnico di Milano , within the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta” and the LaBS group at the Leonardo Campus in Milan , focuses on the design and assessment of a minimally invasive blood pump for supporting the Fontan circulation . The project addresses a major unmet need in the treatment of patients with single-ventricle congenital heart disease: existing ventricular assist devices are not well matched to the physiology of...

This research contract is hosted by the Istituto per le Tecnologie della Costruzione (ITC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , at the Bari branch. The selected researcher will work on the project SIMA - Sviluppo di sistemi Intelligenti per il Monitoraggio avanzato dell'Ambiente , under the scientific direction of Carmine Massarelli . The activity focuses on predictive modelling and multi-level machine learning for understanding the dynamics of pollutants in soil, subsoil and aquifer syst...

Politecnico di Milano is recruiting for a research contract in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering within the scientific area of bioengineering. The project, titled “Agentic EEG Interfaces for Screen-Independent Assistive Communication in ALS” , focuses on developing a non-invasive EEG-based communication system for people with ALS who have difficulty speaking, moving, or using eye-tracking tools. The research is centered on imagined speech and on identifying communicat...

This research contract at Politecnico di Milano is based in the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) and is embedded in the Horizon Europe BEHOLDER project. The research focuses on developing a simulator of pollutant dispersion in urban environments aimed at improving the personalized estimation of individual exposure . The selected researcher will work on an urban dispersion simulator implemented in Python/Blender , currently based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics ...

This research contract is hosted by the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome. The project sits within the self-funded research program “Robot, comportamento e cervello” , focused on the study of psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions, with the advertised position specifically embedded in a program on cognitive functioning and individual differences. The selected researcher will work on computational neuropsychology , with a str...

This research contract is hosted by the Institute of Biophysics (IBF), National Research Council of Italy , at its Palermo secondary site. The selected researcher will join a project on the realistic modelling of physiological and pathological brain conditions, working within a multidisciplinary environment that connects biological, physical, and chemical sciences. The position focuses on multiscale, biophysically detailed, data-driven modelling of single neurons and neuronal networks , with par...

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biofisica (sede secondaria di Palermo) is offering two research contracts within the self-funded project “Modellazione realistica delle condizioni fisiologiche e patologiche del cervello” . The work is based in Palermo and is part of a broader neuroscience research effort supported by the Italian Neuroscience Research Infrastructure. The selected researcher will work on real-scale models of the human and mouse hippocampus , focusing on their constr...

Mobility Scholarships under the Afya Moja project support postgraduate researchers from Benin to spend 3 to 6 months at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy for research work and further training. The opportunity is embedded in a health and technology collaboration linking Italian universities with partner universities in Benin. Successful applicants will carry out their stay at one of the host faculties in Naples and take part in the university’s research and training environment durin...