30 jun 2025 - 16:22 CET

We would like to bring to your attention a number of PhD fellowships
that are now open for application in the national PhD school "Space
Science and Technology", in particular 5 fellowships in the newly
created "gravity" curriculum and 1 in the "observation of the universe"
curriculum. There are exciting possibilities for both data analysis (4
fellowships) and experimental (2 fellowships) focused research, and 5
of the 6 fellowships are directly dedicated to LISA (one regards
application of LISA GRS technology to geodesy).

Please see the link to the application:

english:
https://www.unitn.it/en/phd/space-science-and-technology-sst-national-doctoral-programme

italian:
https://www.unitn.it/it/dottorati/dottorato-di-interesse-nazionale-space-science-and-technology-sst

The deadline for application is 16 July.

The specific fellowships of interest to the LISA community are:

* (1E) Exploring astrophysical frontiers with LISA, INAF-Arcetri
Florence (Filippo Mannucci)

* (8A) The "global fit" challenge in the data analysis of the space
mission LISA (University of Milano Bicocca, contact Monica Colpi)

* (8B) Development of algorithms for low-latency observations of mergers
of massive black holes with the LISA space mission (University of Milano
Bicocca, Massimo Dotti)

* (8C) Multi-sensor analysis of the data stream from terrestrial and
space (LISA) gravitational wave observatories (University of Pisa,
Walter Del Pozzo)

* (8D) From the LISA Pathfinder mission to the LISA observatory for
gravitational waves at mHz frequencies: measurements of the fundamental
limits for free-falling masses (University of Trento, William Joseph Weber)

* (8E) Design, analysis, and testing of a gravitational reference test
mass system for geodesy (University of Trento, William Joseph Weber)

Students will enter a network with some of the top groups collaborating
in gravitational waves and in space science in Italy. The fellowships
foresee a period abroad (6 months). Please do not hesitate to forward
this announcement to your colleagues and/or to contact the references
for more information on the specific research opportunities.