Applications are invited for the admission to PhD Programs and PhD fellowships at Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy in collaboration with the Center of Biomolecular Nanotechnologies (CBN) of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (http://cbn.iit.it) in the areas indicated below. Before applying, candidates are strongly encouraged to visit the CBN website to find more information on members and research activities.

General info on the application procedure can be found at the following links:
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DEADLINE 17 JULY 2023

Positions are available in the following departments:

• Department of Innovation’s Engineering: School in "Engineering of materials, structures and nanotechnology"
• Department of Physics: School in “Physics and Nanoscience”

Research topics:

• Neurotechnologies;
• Photonics for the brain and the body;
• Optogenetics;
• Implantable and edible electronic devices;
• Wearable devices and epidermal electronics for health monitoring;
• Two-photon lithography for material processing and nanofabrication;
• AI and deep learning applied to data science and data analytics for technology design.

Qualifying Degrees:

• Electronic Engineering;
• Physical Engineering;
• Materials Engineering;
• TLC Engineering;
• Mechatronics Engineering;
• Biomedical Engineering;
• Physics;
• Nanotechnologies;
• Neurosciences.

PhD Topics:

• Nanophotonic/Plasmonic systems;
• Nonlinear optics at the nanoscale;Machine learning and photonics;;
• Density Functional Theory: Modeling Van der Waals forces in molecular systems, development of density functional theory methods without orbitals, modeling optical properties of plasmonic systems; (PNRR scholarship – D.M. n. 118/2023 co-financed by IIT);
• Theoretical methods applied to new quantum technologies: classical-quantum hybrid algorithms for optimization problems, nanodevices for gravitational wave detection, topological quantum computing, Floquet many body critical systems, emerging dynamics of black holes, Rydberg atoms; (PNRR scholarship – D.M. n. 118/2023 co-financed by IIT);
• Theoretical methods and quantum technologies based on photons.

Qualifying Degrees:

• Physical Engineering;
• Physics;
• Nanotechnologies.