Ipertensione arteriosa e biologia vascolare

International doctorate in collaboration with the Medical University Gdansk

website: www.dmcs.unipd.it/on-line/Home/Didattica/Dottorato/articolo7002304.html
contacts: teresamaria.seccia@unipd.it

The International PhD program in Arterial Hypertension and Vascular Biology is based in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (DMCS)-Internal Medicine 4 of the University of Padova. This is a referral centre for Arterial Hypertension and cardiovascular diseases in Italy and a Centre of Excellence for Hypertension Research of the European Society of Hypertension. This program is the first in Europe devoted to Hypertension research and was established in conjunction with the Medical Academy of Gdansk, Poland. It requires a rotation across the two Universities and possibly stages at other leading research centres in Europe and the US.
Upon completion of the 3 years course it confers a PhD degree, which is officially recognized in both Countries.

Aim and Organizational Framework
The overall aim of the course is to develop PhD students’ knowledge in order to enable the to gradually undertake independent research in the cardiovascular field by enhancing their laboratory skilful facing innovative technologies.
After being introduced to a wide array of inter-disciplinary and comprehensive cardiovascular disease programs, each PhD student will be gradually educated to cutting-edge instrumentation, methods and technologies.  Thus, he/she will be assigned a specific research project in the field of Arterial Hypertension and Vascular Biology under the strict supervision of an experienced tutor.
The program also includes regular seminars on themes of basic and clinical research, clinical care devoted to cardiovascular health, and regular journal clubs and reviews of ongoing research projects in the different laboratories participating to the PhD Program.
The PhD student is required to actively participate in research teams and to spend stage at the member University of Gdansk or another leading research centre in Europe or US for a minimum of 6 months.
PhD students will benefit from the inter-departmental collaboration with Anatomy, Pharmacology, Vascular Surgery and Endocrinology Units, which share their core facilities and expertise in tissue and intracellular protein localization, morphologic and morphometric techniques and tissue transplant in animal models.  Moreover, PhD students referring to Padua and Gdansk mutually benefit from the integrative and research collaborations between the Universities.

The PhD entails specific commitment and training in the following areas:

Experimental research

• Vascular biology with emphasis on the role of the endothelium and endothelial dysfunction and on its role in the control of vascular tone;
• Pathophysiology of salt and water homeostasis;
• Endocrine control of blood pressure;
• Methodologies of molecular analysis;
• Experimental atherosclerosis;
• Models of arterial hypertension;
• Experimental and molecular pharmacology;
• Principles of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics applied to arterial hypertension.

Clinical Research

• Epidemiology and statistics applied to hypertension;
• Principles of pharmacoeconomics applied to hypertension;
• Methodologies for assessment of target organ damage in hypertension;
• Pathophysiology of the secondary forms of hypertension;
• Guidelines for risk stratification and treatment;
• Design and planning of clinical trials in hypertension.

To date the PhD Program has been extremely successful in reaching these goals as testified not only by an impressive list of publications of the most prestigious journals in the field of Hypertension but also by the swift (immediately after and sometimes even before graduation) appointment of practically all the PhD students in industries and academic or hospital positions of the past years.

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Fusion science and engineering

International doctorate in collaboration with the Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa

website: www.igi.pd.cnr.it/education/eudoctorate.html
contact person: piero.martin@unipd.it, fiorella.colautti@igi.cnr.it

Background and aims of the Ph.D. course
Europe has a strong need to attract and educate young people in fusion science and engineering. With the start of ITER construction the field of magnetically confined fusion is undergoing an impressive acceleration. ITER will be the largest magnetic fusion device ever built ITER is a 17 meters high, 1000 cubic meter plasma volume device, which is under construction in France as a result of a joint project between China, India, Korea, Japan, European Union, Russia and USA. Its goal is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion by producing 500 MW of fusion power.
Due also to the growing energy demand, and to the consequent big environmental, ethical and political issues, there is a strong and growing expectation on fusion as a sustainable energy source. Fusion needs therefore to be a success, and Europe has a key role in this challenge. Europe has in fact the largest share (40%) in the ITER project, and therefore the main responsibility to make it a success and to develop in parallel credible plans for proto-reactors (the so called DEMO devices).
As the start of the ITER operation is approaching, and fusion is expected to be a growing field, an increasing number of fusion scientists will be needed, both physicists and engineers.
For this reason we have set up a Doctoral Network, among a group of European Universities. They are all already actively and officially linked with their respective national EURATOM Fusion Laboratories and have a solid scientific and research background in the field of fusion science and engineering. In this way we exploit both the best scientific competences and skills from the university side and the best and more effective support from EURATOM Institutions, in particular as far as the availability of state-of-the-art experimental tools and devices is concerned.
The main goal of this doctoral project is to improve the present educational system in the area of fusion. The present education system does not seem adequate to provide the necessary number of graduates nor to provide them with the proper preparation. With this doctoral course we aim at providing the European community with new young scientists, capable to cope with the activities on physics and engineering necessary to realize ITER, the subsequent demonstrative reactor(s), DEMO(S), and, at the end, the commercial thermonuclear reactors. This scientist should also have a background broad enough to be able to interact with companies and energy utility sector. High-tech companies will be in fact deeply involved in ITER construction and in subsequent fusion development. It is therefore extremely important that young researcher are trained on technological and industrial matters.
In this context the programme aims at preparing doctoral graduates, able to give an original contribution to the development of thermonuclear fusion research in a highly interdisciplinary context, where the needed engineering and physics competences complement each other. The availability of the Fusion Laboratories in the network, which offer a wide range of specializations, will allow the candidates, together with the Academic Council, to tailor their own educational path and research activity, balancing competences both in engineering and in physics.
On the basis of this deep culture in the subject, of the proactive environment and of the daily research work in interdisciplinary teams, the graduates should be able to plan new experiments and design and implement the corresponding hardware. Moreover they should be prepared to interact with industry to design and realize key ITER and DEMO components. In this context particular attention will be paid to the problems connected to the design of the thermonuclear reactor.

Main topics of the training and of the research experience
The PhD course addresses the subject of controlled thermonuclear fusion in magnetically confined plasmas. Both fusion science and technology topics are taught. The goal of controlled thermonuclear fusion is to bring on Earth the energy, which powers the Sun: an inexhaustible and environmentally sustainable source, to contribute to the solution of the world energy issue.
To reach this goal a number of problems need to be solved, both theoretically and experimentally. This course aim at giving its students the scientific and technological basis to became key players in this important research task. The course covers 3 main areas: Physics of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, Engineering of a Magnetically Confined Fusion Reactor, Experimental tools for diagnosing and controlling in real-time fusion relevant plasmas.
Students will be guided from the basics to state-of-the-art problems and solutions. Strong links with the European Fusion program and the ITER project are in place.
ITER will be the largest magnetic fusion device ever built. ITER is a 17 meters high, 1000 cubic meter plasma volume device, which is under construction in France as a result of a joint project between China, India, Korea, Japan, European Union, Russia and USA. Its goal is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion by producing 500 MW of fusion power. ITER will start its operation in 2019. To be a success and a key step in the achievement of fusion, ITER need a strong support from the scientific community and a large basis of scientists, who could build it and later exploit it. ITER will need a broad range of expertise, in physics and engineering, also on developing areas like material science and plasma control. This PhD course works in tight contact with ITER and aims at educating new generations of future ITER scientists. To this extent, the topics of the classes are selected among those mostly relevant.
The PhD course is supported by experimental activity in three important European devices: the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak in Garching by Muenchen, the RFX-mod reversed field pinch in Padova and the ISSTOK tokamak in Lisbon. The course will use experiments and tools of these three devices for a modern, experiment based, education. The PhD course at University of Padova will in particular benefit from direct training experience in RFX-mod, which is one of the leading experiments in the world in the field of active feedback control of plasma stability.

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ALGANT-DOC - Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory Joint Doctorate
The ALGANT-DOC doctoral programme, set up by the ALGANT consortium, is a collaborative scheme creating ideal conditions for the production of high-level research in pure mathematics, leading to a double and/or joint doctoral degree, prepared under joint supervision at a minimum of two partner institutions. The consortium is coordinated by Université Bordeaux 1 (France). The other partners are : Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (France), Università di Milano (Italy), Concordia University (Canada), Chennai Mathematical Institute (India).
For information and application, please refer to: www.algant.eu

EXTATIC – Erasmus Mundus Extreme-Ultraviolet and X-Ray Technology and Training for International Cooperation
The purpose of this joint doctorate is to provide a new generation of graduate students with high-level training in Extreme-Ultraviolet (XUV) and X-ray science, together with all the scientific, technical and transferable skills necessary for thriving careers in a burgeoning area involving innovative technological development across a range of disciplines. The consortium is coordinated by Dublin City University (Ireland). The other partners are: Czech Techinical University in Prague (Czech Republic), Rwth Aachen University (Germany), University College Dublin (Ireland), Military University of Technology (Poland), King’s College London (United Kingdom), University of Southampton (United Kingdom).
For information and application, please refer to: www.extatic.eu

FUSION-DC - Eramsus Mundus International Doctoral College in Fusion Science and Engineering
FUSION-DC is a three-year joint doctoral programme in nuclear fusion science and engineering, offered by a consortium of 20 European partner institutions from 8 EU countries: 7 academic degree-awarding full partners, 2 research institute full partners, and 11 associated partners. FUSION-DC provides sustainable, integrated and coordinated training at doctoral level within the framework of a worldwide network of excellence in magnetic confinement fusion (MCF). The consortium is coordinated by University of Ghent (Belgium). The other partners are: Henri Poincarè University Nancy 1 (France), University of Stuttgart (Germany), Higher Technical Institute Lisbon (Portugal), Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain), Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), Irfm-cea Cadarache (France), Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching and Greifswald (Germany).
For information and application, please refer to: www.em-fusion-dc.org

FONASO - Forest and Nature for Society
In FONASO, the emphasis is on applied research. Doctoral candidates will therefore typically do fieldwork (in a wide sense) and are encouraged, starting already in the project formulation phase, to carry out fieldwork in connection with stays at Associate Partners, who may contribute with hosting and co-supervision functions. The consortium is coordinated by Københavns Universitet (Denmark). The other partners are: University of Wales (United Kingdom), Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany), AgroParisTech - École interne ENGREF (France), Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (Sweden).
For information and application, please refer to: www.fonaso.eu

The University of Padova, through funding from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, offers research fellowships for foreign students to attend Doctoral Schools or International Courses. During the 3-year doctorate programme, successful candidates are entitled to full board and lodging.

There are 15 PhD grants reserved  for foreign students for admission to Doctoral Schools and International Doctoral Courses (28th series) for 2012-13 (deadline: September 5 2012).

Final Pass List
Successful candidates must confirm their will to enrol before November 19 2012 by sending a communication: by fax at +39 049 8271934 (a copy of a valid ID document must be attached) or by e-mail at doctoral.grants@unipd.it or formazione.ricerca@unipd.it,  with a scanned copy of a valid ID document. In the communication they will have to confirm the choice of the Doctoral School/International Course and of the curriculum (if any).
Successful candidates who do not confirm their choice before November 19 2012 will be considered as renouncing their positions. The positions available for replacement will be assigned according to the final list. The eligible candidates will be contacted directly by Servizio Formazione alla Ricerca by e-mail.

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