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PhD in Environmental and Energy Engineering Science
Dottorato in Scienze dell'Ingegneria Energetica e Ambientale
Objectives: The PhD course aims at developing specific skills in the field of energy production in a sustainable way.
The production of energy in a sustainable way is a vast subject of research that requires interdisciplinary methodological skills. Current PhD program includes training and research in the fields of Chemical and Energy Technologies with particular reference to the Environment. The PhD training program is a center of national and international initiatives while maintaining relations with the territory. The program has achieved these goals by coordinating skills available in our University and multiplying potential for research and training in connection and cooperation with international research centers. The PhD Board is made up of teachers from different cultural areas, which are complementary to each other. The list of research topics is broad, from methodological issues and cross-cutting themes fundamental to the great themes industrial applications to specific issues that require interdisciplinary skills. The following list suggests some ideas but others may be included in a dynamic evolution with rapid responses to the needs of society.
Reference Macro Areas: Renewable energy (fossil, renewable, nuclear), energy conversion, energy savings, energy economics, environmental impact, sustainability of products and processes, security of processes, structures and the environment.
Research Fields: Fundamental: Transport of momentum, energy and chemical species, chemical reactions, biochemical reactions and biological foundations of the technologies of chemical processes.
Applications: Systems of transport, conversion, storage and distribution of energy, fluid machinery, combustion systems, materials for energy applications and/or environmental systems and processes to reduce pollutants, geothermal applications.
Specific multidisciplinary topics of current interest: Fuel cells, photovoltaic systems, carbon dioxide sequestration, role of hydrogen, biomass.
Job placement opportunities:
The PhD course aims to train specific skills in the field of energy production in a sustainable way. The PhD program is based on a number of collaborations with research laboratories of industrial companies/institutions: these organizations often also fund ad-hoc scholarships. Doctoral students are encouraged to and almost always undertake in the course of the three years of direct experience in the training industry. In addition, during the three years of the course the student usually accomplished a valuable experience abroad in qualified research centers in Europe and/or America. The research activities carried out during the PhD are almost always applied research and as such are closely related to the world of work. The topics are also extremely topical and of industrial interest, and then the specific skills acquired by the students in the three years are in great demand. For all these reasons, job placement opportunities after graduation are optimal.