<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all">Dear Colleagues,
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The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy, announces 21
positions funded with fellowships and research grants for
admission to the three-year Ph.D. Program in BioRobotics.
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The Program
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The Ph.D. Program in BioRobotics is a three-year course of
advanced studies and supervised research; at the end of the
Program, the Ph.D. degree is conferred to students who have
fulfilled the didactic requirements and passed a final examination
with thesis dissertation.
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The Ph.D. Program aims at educating highly competent researchers
with the potential to be leaders in this area. The students will
be educated in a stimulating and multidisciplinary environment,
both through high-level courses and through demanding, creative
and original research work. Doctoral research projects will be
carried out in very well equipped, state-of-the-art laboratories
(in such fields as bio-robotics, micro- and nanotechnology,
biomimetics, prosthetics) and through individual and team work
performed under the supervision of a committed full-time faculty.
The students will investigate how biological systems work from an
engineering viewpoint, and will make use of such knowledge to
pursue challenging research projects aimed at modeling, designing
and building novel components and systems for biomedical
applications.
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At the end of the Ph.D. Program, students will possess solid
scientific and engineering skills, the ability to conceive and
carry out original research projects, and an autonomous
entrepreneurship spirit.
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The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
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SSSA is a public university where merit and talent count.
Excellence in training and research, internationalization,
interaction with the job market are the objectives of SSSA. Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna offers training and postgraduate courses in
Economics and Management, Law, Political Science, Agricultural
Science and Biotechnology, Medicine, and Industrial and
Information Engineering. SSSA is a scientific community where the
academic staff and researchers interact with students through a
continuous exchange of cultural, creative and intellectual ideas
(<a class="gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.santannapisa.it/it">http://www.santannapisa.it/it</a>). The Ph.D. Program is managed by
the BioRobotics Institute. Its mission is to educate the Engineer
of the 21st Century: a competent, interdisciplinary, and creative
inventor and entrepreneur, able to handle new technological and
scientific challenges
(<a class="gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.santannapisa.it/it/istituto/biorobotica/biorobotics-institute">http://www.santannapisa.it/it/istituto/biorobotica/biorobotics-institute</a>).<br>
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Admission
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Students are admitted to the Program following a successful
entrance examination. Eligible applicants must hold a Master of
Science (M.Sc.) degree or equivalent title. Undergraduate students
may also apply if they graduate within Oct. 31st. The Program will
start Oct 1st 2017.
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Instructions for applicants are reported here:
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<a class="gmail-moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.santannapisa.it/en/admissions/call-admission-phd-biorobotics-0">https://www.santannapisa.it/en/admissions/call-admission-phd-biorobotics-0</a>
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The deadline for application is June 15, 2017
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