Visiting PhD Students Training Program

The Visiting PhD Students Training Program (ViS) aims to give the opportunity to PhD students coming from other institutions to attend SISSA Basic PhD Courses intended for first-year students, as well as Advanced Courses intended for higher year students, post-docs and staff members. For this purpose, a financial support toward living costs will be available to selected students.

External students interested in this program should send an e-mail to the representative providing the following information:

  • Starting and ending time of the period of staying
  • The courses she/he wishes to attend
  • Curriculum Vitae, including Master and Bachelor degree, and the list of the exams and their marks
  • Name of the institution where the applicant is doing the PhD or will be doing starting from the academic year 2023-2024
  • Name of one or more senior scientists that will send letters of recommendations
The dead-lines for applying are

A complete list of the courses of the current academic year together with information regarding the syllabuses, credits, duration and relative schedule is avalaible in the sections Basic Courses and Advanced Courses.

Note: for Italian and EU students, we remind that Basic Courses are assigned with a number of credits according to the ECTS system. The students can request for credits recognition, but modifications are not permitted.