SOME REGULATIONS ON THE PHD IN PHYSICS AND EMERGENT TECNOLOGIES

Study Plan: The PhD in Physics and Emerging Technologies is divided into three years, except for the extensions provided for by law. Each year the PhD student has to acquire 60 credits divided between teaching, research, thesis writing and English language activities. In particular, for activities that take place with lectures, 1 CFU is considered equivalent to 5 hours of lessons. The study plan is composed as follows:

I YEAR

20 CFU – English* (100 hrs)

10 CFU – Courses from the list published at the link https://unisa.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/corsi/2023/500654 (50 hrs)

24 CFU – Self-training (120 ore)

6 CFU—Supervised research 1

II YEAR

54 CFU – Supervised reasearch 2

6 CFU-- Courses from the list published on at the link https://unisa.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/corsi/2023/500654 (30 hrs)

III YEAR

50 CFU – Supervised research 3

10 CFU – Thesis

By mid-February the student must complete the study plan in which he/she indicates the courses chosen for the 16 compulsory credits on the ESSE3 platform. An email will notify the deadline.

Self-training = Includes seminars, other doctoral courses among those proposed in the ateneoum and announced on the website, master's degree courses**, national and international schools, traineeship in industries and institutions. In self-training it is strongly suggested to include at least one course of the PhD in Mathematics (minimum 2 CFU) and to follow all the seminars programmed at the Department of Physics.

Exams: For each course included in the study plan, the student is obliged to take an exam, the modality of which is chosen by the professor (oral exam, power point presentation, test, etc.). To take the exam the student must book on esse3 by the exam date (dates are in July, September, October). Also for the English exam the student is required to register on esse3 for the recognition of CFU. The English exam is taken at the University CLA, but the recognition of the ECTS is done by the PhD Coordinator.

Self-training: At the end of each year (by the end of October) the student submits a report in which he declares the self-training and research activities carried out, attaching a possible register. The research activities carried out are declared by the tutor teacher with a certificate.

Annual Report: The annual report is mandatory for the admission to the second and third year of doctorate and must be approved by the Doctoral Board. The activities conducted will be exposed in a seminar held in November.

Period abroad: Each student is required to spend 6 months abroad for research activities (except for validly motivated cases).

External activities: For all activities carried out outside the doctorate, a communication and a possible request for authorization must be sent to the coordinator of the doctoral cycle. The PhD students will be allowed to carry out 40 hrs of integrative teaching and tutoring of students remunerated.

Funds: The student receives some annual funds for missions in Italy or abroad, starting from the second year and of which the coordinator will give communication. Mission requests must be entered on the mission page of the personaldesk from the date on which the funds become available to the PhD Coordinator. For further information contact Dr. Cinzia Vitolo (cvitolo@unisa.it).

* In the case in which the English is the native language of the student, the English CFUs will be recognized with the presentation of a certificate, and the attendance of the Italian course is required, except particular cases.

**For master's degree courses followed, up to a maximum of 6 CFU (30 hrs) can be recognized, even if the course hours correspond to higher numbers of CFU. The subject of the courses should be different from those already attended during the master’s degree.