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PhD Scholarships available at the University of Milano-Bicocca

University of Milano-Bicocca, , Italy
Apply before: 26 June 2020

Posting:

Position:

PhD Scholarships

Apply before:

26 June 2020

Apply online:

https://en.unimib.it/education/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/how-apply-phd-programme

We are seeking highly motivated candidates for the upcoming PhD Program in Geological Sciences at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca.

Five scholarships are available to work on research projects regarding (in bold those concerning surface processes):

Remote sensing, fracture network modeling and historical data for rockfall risk analysis
Reconstruction and monitoring of recent paleoenvironmental variations with benthic foraminifera
Assemblage variations of calcareous nannofossils to track the Plio-Pleistocene dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Provenance analysis of modern continental to marine sediments using classical and innovative techniques
Megathrusts at the front of the Penninic collisional wedge
Open source technologies for 3D geomodelling
Assessing correlations between surface processes and magmatic activity
Relations between active faults and fluid emission as a function of multiple tectonic, volcanic and seismic parameters
Fluorcarbonates of Ca and Rare Earth Elements: Model structures for the study of polysomatism and polytypism and ore minerals for green energy applications
Carbon enrichment and transport in the lithospheric mantle: characteristics and significance for the deep carbon cycle
The dynamic mass transfer from slabs to the mantle wedge

Additional positions are available to scholarship holders from foreign countries.

The Call for application and more detail can be found at:
https://www.unimib.it/didattica/dottorato-ricerca/accedere-al-dottorato (Italian)
https://en.unimib.it/education/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/how-apply-phd-programme (English)
Deadline: 26th June 2020 at 12:00 pm - Italian time.

For information regarding research on topic (g), please get in touch with me at pietro.sternai@unimib.it

For further general information, mail to: Marco Malusà - marco.malusa@unimib.it (PhD Referee for Geological Sciences), or to Maria Luce Frezzotti - maria.frezzotti@unimib.it (Coordinator of the PhD Course)

All the best,

Pietro Sternai
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Milano-Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 4
I-20126 Milano
Italy
ph: +39 02 6448 2066

email: pietro.sternai@unimib.it

Of interest for:

Terrestrial Working Group

Marine Working Group

Geodynamics Focus Research Group