Connectionists: Call for 21 positions to the three-year Ph.D. Program in BioRobotics at The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

[Alberto Mazzoni]

Dear Colleagues,

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.

The Program
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.
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.

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.

The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
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 (
http://www.santannapisa.it/it). 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 (
http://www.santannapisa.it/it/istituto/biorobotica/biorobotics-institute).

Admission
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.

Instructions for applicants are reported here:
https://www.santannapisa.it/en/admissions/call-admission-phd-biorobotics-0

The deadline for application is June 15, 2017
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