DAFNAE (Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment)

• Agronomy and Field Crops
• Fruit Tree Crops
• Vegetables and Flower Crops
• Agriculture Genetics
• Entomology
• Agriculture Chemistry
• Food Science and Technology
• Agricultural Microbiology
• Animal Science, Breeding and Selection
• Animal Feeding and Nutrition
• Special Zootechnics
• Zooculture

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  DiBIO (Department of Biology)

• Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics
• Developmental Biology and Morphogenesis
• Biodiversity and Evolution
• Evolutionary Biology
• Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology
• Plant Biology
• Ecology
• Environmental Physiology and Experimental Zoology
• Physiology, Genetics and Behavior
• Human Genetics and Functional Genomics
• Genomics and Bioinformatics

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  BCA (Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science)

• Animal Science
• Biochemistry
• Computational Biology
• Infective Diseases of Domestic Animals
• Inspection of Animal Source Foods
• Veterinary Anatomical Pathology and General Pathology
• Veterinary Anatomy
• Veterinary Bioethics
• Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Veterinary Physiology and Ethology
• Zoology

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  DIMED (Department of Medicine)

Pathological anatomy

• Epidemiology, morphological and molecular characterization of tumors (gastrointestinal tract, liver, soft tissues, thyroid, pediatric tumors, rare diseases and tumour diagnosis). Inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Anesthesiology

• Anesthesia and pharmacology in obese patients and transplant surgery, acute respiratory failure, extracorporeal treatment of severe cardiorespiratory diseases, mechanical ventilation, heart-lung interaction mediators of sepsis, septic shock, infections by multidrugresistant bacteria, study of anesthetic aspects in management rare disease clinic.

Dermatology

• Oncological and immune-mediated dermatological diseases: study of pathogenetic mechanisms and innovative therapeutic approaches. Rare benign and neoplastic dermatological diseases

Hematology

• Onco-haematological diseases with particular reference to chronic lymphoproliferative diseases. Rare haematological diseases rare haematological tumour; Iinfomyeloproliferative rare diseases, anemia of genetic origin

Endocrinology

• Functional and neoplastic diseases (thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, testis); bone metabolism. Study of the molecular mechanisms responsible for arterial hypertension and sudden death; andrology and assisted reproduction. Rare diseases of relevance in the pathophysiology of endocrine gland metabolism and male gonads and of bone metabolism.

Hepatology

• Acute and chronic liver diseases; portal cirrhosis and hypertension (also in experimental models), hepatocarcinoma and liver transplantation. Rare benign and neoplastic liver diseases.

Experimental pharmacology and oncology

• Animal models for the study of oncogenesis and the development of new targeted therapies. Molecular mechanisms of breast and prostatic tumorigenesis.

Geriatrics

• Lipid metabolism and cardiovascular complications; neuro-cognitive decay and dementia; disability, frail elderly, assessment of physical activity and nutritional aspects of the elderly. Rare diseases with physio-pathological and clinical impact on aging.

Imaging

• Advanced anatomical, functional and metabolic imaging. Vascular and interventional radiology. Center of reference for adrenal vein catheterization. Imaging applied to the diagnostics and management of rare diseases and rare cancers

Immunorheumatology

• immunology, autoimmune and musculoskeletal rheumatic diseases. Immunological and molecular mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis. Rare diseases of the musculoskeletal system and autoimmune rheumatic diseases.

Arterial Hypertension

• Endocrine mechanisms of primary, secondary and rare arterial hypertension. Prevention and therapy of arterial hypertension and its cerebra-cardio-renal and atherosclerotic complications. Rare diseases of relevance in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases and dyslipidemias

Metabolic Diseases

• Diabetology, metabolic disorders of pregnancy, obesity and metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia. Rare diseases of relevance in the pathophysiology of glucose and lipid metabolism

Vascular and Haemostasis Diseases

• Congenital and acquired haemorrhagic and thrombotic disorders; platelet pathologies, rare diseases of haemostasis. Venous and arterial thrombosis. Rare diseases in the hemostatic and coagulative vascular field

Laboratory Medicine

• Development of quality indicators and performance criteria. Study of the "liquid biopsy". Serological and molecular markers of neoplasm (digestive tract and prostate), H. Pylori infection, celiac disease and chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. Aspects of laboratory medicine in rare diseases and rare tumors.

Nephrology

• Dialysis and cardiovascular complications; cardiovascular complications of kidney transplantation. Molecular and biochemical mechanisms of rare kidney diseases (Fabry, Gitelman, Bartter, Dent).

Nursing Sciences

• Nursing in the management of acute and chronic diseases with particular emphasis to rare diseases.

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  MAPS (Department of Animal Medicin, Pructions and Health)

• Molecular Biology
• Veterinary surgical clinic
• Veterinary medical clinic
• Veterinary obstetrics and gynecology clinic
• Infectious diseases of domestic animals
• Parasitology and parasitic diseases
• Zootechnics
• Zoocultures

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  DMM (Department of Molecular Sciences)

• General biochemistry and metabolism
• Cancer genomics and transcriptomics
• Functional Genomics
• Neurophysiology
• Mechanobiology
• Computational Medicine
• Antiviral development
• Signal transduction and stem cells

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  DNS (Department of Neurosciences)

• Human anatomy
• Audiology
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Visual system diseases
• Physical and rehabilitation Medicine
• Neurosurgery
• Neurology
• Psychobiology and physiological Psicology
• Psychiatry

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  SDB (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health)

Gynecology and Obstetrics

Pediatrics

• Epidemiological Research

• Clinical Research
• Innovative Therapies Research
• Applied Biological Research
• Applied Neuro-informatics Research

• Strategic Cardiovascular Engineering

Genetics

• Neurofibromatosis
• Cytogenetics
• Molecular Biology
• Mitochondrial Physiopathology
• Model Organisms
• Clinical Teratology

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  DSB (Department of Biomedical Sciences)

Neuroscience

• Circuit formation and function in the brain
• Enlightening Brain Mechanisms
• Genetics of focal epilepsies
• Migraine Pathophysiology
• Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases
• Neuronal Network on Microchips
• Neuron-glia signaling in brain function and dysfunction
• Neuroparalysis and Neuroregeneration Lab
• Pathogenesis of neurological and neuromuscular diseases
• Plasticity In Pathology

Cell Signaling

• Ca2and cAMP signaling in physiology and pathology

• Pharmacobiology of Natural Compounds
• Phosphorylation signaling in Health disease

• Redox signaling and cancer biomarkers

Mitochondrial pathophysiology

• Aging signaling pathways

• Mitochondria in Cell Death and Cancer
• Mitochondrial Calcium Signalling
• Mitochondrial Medicine
• Oxidative metabolism in cardiac disease

• Regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis and function

Muscle Physiology in Health and Disease

• Autonomic control of cardiac function

• Chaperones in muscle differentiation and disease
• Muscle Contractility And Neuromuscular Plasticity
• Pathophysiology of striated muscles

• Signaling pathways that control protein homeostasis in muscles

Medical Biotechnology

• Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Pathobiology

• Immune Nanotechnology
• Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
• Nano-biotechnology and nano-biomedicine
• Peptides and Antibodies

• Protein Engineering

Physical Activity and Health

• Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences

Inflammation and Immunity

Computational and Structural Biology

• BioComputing UP

• Protein Interactions and Dynamics
• Macromolecular complexes and Membrane contact sites

• Structural Biochemistry 

Adaptive Immunity

• Reactive Oxygen Species and Cytotoxic Immunity

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  DCTV (Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences and Public Health)

Pathological Anatomy

• Structural and molecular bases of deathsudden cardiac

• Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy etiopathogenesis
• Pathology of Cardiac Transplantation
• Molecular Pathology and Medicine
• Regenerative
• Pathological bases of heart disease structural
• Cardiac innervation
• Biomarkers and microenvironment study in chest neoplasms
• Morphological and molecular bases of the interstitial lung diseases

• Pathology of Lung Transplantation

Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health

• Machine learning Technique (MLT) e Data Mining

• Clinical Epidemiology
• Clinical Trials
• Nutraceuticals and Nutrition

• Pharmacoepidemiology

Cardiology

• Hemodynamic structural therapy of valvulopathies: clinicoemodynamic correlations

• Functional evaluation of stenoses coronary
• Percutaneous treatment of the disease of the common trunk
• Antithrombotic therapy in syndromes acute coronary
• Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: clinical and instrumental evaluation, genotype-phenotype correlation, arrhythmic risk stratification
• Sudden death in athletes: clinical-instrumental study
• Inflammatory myocardial diseases e pericardium
• Ischemic heart disease: study of pathophysiological mechanisms by cardiac magnetic resonance
• Cardiac pathology of microcirculation in systemic diseases and in transplantation cardiac
• Evaluation standardization of myocardial deformation by echocardiography
• Use of cardiovascular hybridization advanced to optimize the use of implantable defibrillators for the primary prevention of death sudden in patients with structural and reduced heart disease left ventricular function
• Evaluation of pathophysiology e hemodynamic severity of functional tricuspid insufficiency and its implications in cardiology structural interventional
• Prognostic value of the analysis quantity of geometry and function of the right ventricle and its functional adaptations to the different ones hemodynamic overloads
• Mitral valve geometry in functional failure and its implications for the development of a implantable biological prosthesis transcatheter

• Thrombophilias and cardiovascular diseases

Cardiac Surgery

• Development of a bioengineered heart

• Development of valve substitutes bioengineered
• Development of arterial substitutes bioengineered
• Clinical result in surgical treatment of heart failure: transplantation of heart and mechanical assistance

• New technologies in surgical therapy e transcatheter (minimally invasive cardiac surgery) for the correction of cardiovascular pathologies

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

• Decellularized valves

• Preservation of the pulmonary valve in TOF
• Evaluation of biochemical markers of damage neurological and pulmonary during Extracorporeal circulation and correlations clinics
• Cardiac surgery in patients with heart disease congenital complex in adulthood

• Clinical outcomes in patients operated for complex congenital heart disease in pediatric age

Thoracic Surgery

• COPD and lung cancer

• Surgery of the trachea, bronchi and fistulas tracheooesophageal
• Thymic disorders and robotic surgery
• Lung transplant and techniques of ex vivo organ preservation
• Stage lung cancer surgery locally advanced

• Multimodal treatment of mesothelioma malignant pleura

Vascular Surgery

• Aneurysmal and post-traumatic pathology of the thoracic aorta: new solutions of treatment and management of complications

• Obliterative arteriopathy of the aortoiliac and peripheral axes: physiopathology and new therapeutic solutions
• Aneurysmal pathology of the arteries peripherals
• Abdominal aorta pathology: therapeutic solutions, management of complications
• Pathology of supra-aortic trunks e pathophysiology of insufficiency cerebrovascular
• Pathophysiology, hemodynamics and solutions operating in vascular accesses for hemodialysis

• Thoracic aorta and thoracoabdominal dissection

Hygiene and Public Health

• Epidemiology of chronic diseases e diffusive, disease prevention infectious in the nosocomial and community context

• Population studies
• Evaluation of Health Services and Health Promotion

• Hygiene and applied microbiology

Occupational Medicine

• Environmental pneumopathies

• BIOAGE in environmental and occupational expositions: telomeres and telomerase
• Environment gene interaction in the development of environmental and professional tumors
• Arthropoprosthetic cobaltosis and toxicity of cobalt
• Neurofibromatosis type 1

• Chemical markers for the exposure to wood dust evaluation

Forensic Medicine

• Diagnostics and monitoring of acute, chronic and lethal intoxications from xenobiotic

• Application of omics technologies in medical and forensic field
• Microradiology in anthropology and forensic pathology

• Histopathology, toxicology and biology in the postmortal diagnosis of occupational disease

Pulmonology

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): pathogenetic mechanisms and clinical outcomes
• Bronchial asthma: pathogenetic mechanisms and natural history of the disease
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases
• Respiratory disorders associated with diseases neuromuscular and non-invasive ventilation

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  DISCOG (Department of Oncological and Gastroenterological Surgical Sciences)

Basic and Translational Oncology and Tumor Immunology

• Cellular Replicative Potential: Telomere/telomerase

• Metabolic profile and redox homeostasis of tumor cells
• Targeted therapies in lymphoid malignancies through proteomic approaches
• Viral Oncology
• Tumor angiogenesis and metabolism

• Development of innovative strategies to study and monitor neoplastic disease

Immunology and Tumor Immunology

• Cancer immunotherapy
• Human tumor immunology
• Tumor microenvironment
• Synthetic Immunology

Clinical Oncology

• Breast cancer
• Lung cancer
• Gynecological cancer

Orthopedics

• Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology
• Hip and Knee Surgery
• Spine surgery
• Foot and Ankle surgery
• Pediatric orthopaedics surgery
• Musculoskeletal pathology and oncology laboratory

Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine

• Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation
• Liver Transplantation
• Regenerative Medicine

Surgery

• Cancer Cachexia

• Colorectal surgery
• Endocrine diseases
• Endocrine surgery
• Surgery and Gastro-Esophageal Diseases
• Liver surgery
• Pancreatic and digestive endocrine surger
• Surgery of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

• Development and exploitation of 3-dimensional tissue models

Urology

Surgical Oncology

• Surgical Oncology of Soft Tissues, Peritoneum, and Melanoma
• Surgery of colorectal cancer
• Liver cancer
• Surgery of esophagogastric cancer
• Surgery of gastric cancer
• Surgery of soft tissue sarcoma

Radiotherapy

Digestive and Liver Diseases

• Alcohol-related liver disease
• Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Disease
• Cirrhosis, Portal Hypertension, and Vascular Liver Diseases
• Clinical and Translational Gut Immunology
• Education in Medicine and Gastroenterology
• Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
• Gastrointestinal and Liver Oncology
• Metabolic Liver Disease
• Microbiota in Health and Disease
• Transition in Paediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
• Viral Hepatitis

Computational Medicine

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  DSF (Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences)

Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacognosy

• Neuropharmacology
• Gastrointestinal Pharmacology
• Cardiovascular Pharmacology
• Cancer Pharmacology
• Pharmacognosy and Environmental Toxicology
• Peptide Receptor Pharmacology

Medicinal Chemistry

• Drug Design and Synthesis
• Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Action
• Nutraceuticals

Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Delivery

• Advanced Drug Delivery and Biopharmaceutics
• Galenic and Cosmetic Formulation and Pharmaceutical Processes

Biochemistry

Pharmaceutical Biology

Regenerative Medicine

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  TESAF (Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry

Agricultural, Forestry and Biosystems Engineering

• Agricultural and forest engineering

• Water resources, soil and watershed protection

Economics, Appraisal and Law

• Agri-food, forest and  natural resources economics. Land appraisal, law and policies for the territory and the environment

Plant Pathology

• Plant pathology and phytopathological technologies

Science and Technology of Tree and Forest Systems

• Ecology and sustainable forest management

• Wood technology and forest harvesting

Surveying and Mapping

• Geomatics

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  DFA (Department of Physics and Astronomy “Galileo Galilei”)

Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions

• Particle and high energy physics
• Astroparticle physics and astrophysics
• Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
• Development of experimental techniques for future experiments

Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions

• Strings, Gravity, and Quantum Fields
• Theoretical Physics at the Energy Frontier
• Theoretical Physics at the Intensity Frontier
• Astroparticle Physics
• Theoretical Nuclear Physics

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

• Biophysics
• Physics of semiconductors and advanced crystals
• Physics of surfaces, interfaces and hybrid materials
• Physics of Disordered Systems
• Quantum hardware and technology

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

• Statistical Physics of Complex and Biological Systems
• Quantum Theories and Numerical Simulations of Condensed Matter

Astrophysics and Cosmology

• Exoplanets
• Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology
• Evolution of galaxies and active galactic nuclei
• Stellar populations
• Solar system

Didactics and History of Physics

• History of physics
• Research GRoup on Astronomy and Physics Education

Multidisciplinary physical applications

• Radiation Imaging and Tracking (GRIT)
• Physics of Vision
• Physics of Plasmas

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  Department of Geosciences

Sediments, Life and Climate through time

• Geological and digital mapping and regional geology
• Biodiversity and life evolution in the geological record
• Integrated stratigraphy and geochronology
• Multidisciplinary paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental and paleoceanographic reconstructions
• Sedimentary environments: from processes to products
• Tectono-sedimentary interactions and basin analysis

Earth and Planetary Dynamics

• Deep Earth volatile cycle and diamonds
• Earthquake geology and fault mechanics
• Metamorphism, crustal anatexis and magmatism
• Mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry of the crust and mantle
• Solar System Geology
• Structure and Dynamics of Earth’s Interior
• Tectonics and thermochronology

Archaeometry and Geoarcheology

• Archaeometry and cultural heritage vulnerability and protection
• Geoarchaeology
• Geoheritage and geosites

Natural Resources, Raw Materials and sustainability

• Characterization, evaluation and protection of groundwater resources
• Development of sustainable binders and cements
• Geothermal systems
• Raw materials, mineral resources and industrial minerals
• Recycling of urban and industrial waste for sustainable development
• Remediation and stabilization of contaminated soils
• Sustainable energy systems

Geomorphological processes, geological hazards and risks

• Artificial Intelligence in geohazards and risk analysis
• Evolution of Quaternary Landscapes
• Flood hazard and extreme events
• Geomorphological processes and landscape dynamics
• Landslides: monitoring and mechanics
• Observation and modelling of fluvial and coastal processes
• Radon hazard assessment
• Reactive transport in porous media
• Risk, vulnerability, and resilience

Geophysics

• Applied geophysics for environmental, engineering, applied geology and georesources
• Applied seismology
• Atmosphere and Climate Dynamics
• Hydrogeophysics
• Physics of earthquakes
• Physics of elastic waves
• Seismic tomography

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  ICEA (Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering)

• Applied Thermodynamics
• Architectural and Urban design
• Architectural and Urban composition
• Building Innovation
• Climate change, territories, diversity
• Design tools and methods in Industrial Engineering
• Dynamical River Networks
• Economics, resource and projects evaluation
• Environmental Engineering
• Environmental Geomechanics
• Geomatics
• Geotechnics
• Hydraulics
• Hydrology
• Numerical Methods for Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Statistics
• Structural Mechanics and Structural Engineering
• Technical Architecture
• Transportation Systems Engineering

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  DEI (Department of Information Engineering)

Applied Optics

• Laser processing
• Generation and manipulation of optical beam with orbital angular momentum
• Pointing, acquisition and tracking for free-space optical and quantum communication

Automation

• Industrial Control Applications
• Control Networks
• Control Systems Theory
• Machine Learning, Identification and Estimation
• Quantum Information and Control
• Robotics & Mechatronics
• Smart Environments
• Systems Biology

Bioengineering

• Data Analysis, Learning and Control for Biology and Medicine
• Functional and Anatomical Imaging Research for Neuroscience
• Human Movement Bioengineering
• Biomedical Image Analysis
• Modeling of Biological and Physiological Systems

Computer Engineering

• Advanced computing paradigms
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Computer engineering for music and multimedia (CSC)
• Cybersecurity
• Data mining, Machine Learning and Data Science
• Information technology and Informatics for health and well-being
• Intelligent Interactive Information Access
• Intelligent robotics and autonomous systems
• Operation research

Electronics

• Advanced Solid-State Devices
• Optoelectronic Devices
• Photovoltaic Devices
• Integrated circuits for analog and radiofrequency microsystems
• Human health care and radiation effects
• Power Electronics
• Instrumentation and Measurement

Telecommunications

• Antennas and microwaves
• Digital Communications and Cellular Systems
• Optical and quantum communications
• Photonics
• Security & Navigation
• Signal Processing & Multimedia
• Signal Processing & Networking

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  DII (Department of Industrial Engineering)

Aerospace systems

• Aerodynamics
• Aerospace structures
• Computational mechanics and virtual testing
• Design and qualification of low and high atmosphere flight systems
• Design, implementation and qualification of tools and mechanisms for space applications
• Dynamics of atmospheric and space flight
• Individual protection in the aerospace environment
• Measurements, instrumentation and technologies for aerospace applications
• Modeling of multiphysics phenomena
• Propulsion and magneto-thermo-fluid dynamics
• Structural integrity monitoring

Bioengineering, biotechnology and health technologies

• Biological and biochemical engineering
• Biomaterials
• Biomechanics
• Health technologies
• Innovative processes for the treatment of food products
• Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Electrical systems

• Electric machines and drives
• Electromagnetic compatibility
• Industrial Electronics
• Modeling, simulation and optimization of electromagnetic devices and systems
• Photometry, spectrometry and lighting technology
• Safe and sustainable electric mobility
• Smart grids and electrical power systems
• Storage and generation systems of electrical energy
• Technical-economic evaluations on electrical storage systems

Energy

• Applied thermodynamics and heat transfer
• Building energetics
• Electrochemical energy systems
• Energetic systems
• Energy economics and politics
• Energy storage
• Fluid machines for energy conversion and propulsion
• Nuclear fusion
• Refrigeration engineering
• Renewable energies

Environmental and industrial safety

• Capture and use of CO2
• Dynamics and restoration of water bodies
• Environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology and water treatment
• Environmental quality assessment and decision-making tools (LCA and risk analysis)
• Evaluation of sustainability in industrial and recycling processes
• Process and plant safety
• Safety of machinery
• Safety of terrestrial vehicles

Industrial processes and products

• Big data analytics
• Capture and use of CO2
• Chemical reaction engineering: synthesis, reactivity and catalysis
• Engineering of production and chemical processes
• Image processing
• Innovative processes for the treatment of food products
• Manufacturing engineering
• Powder technology
• Process modeling and optimization

Management and Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurship for economic growth and the development of new businesses
• New project management methodologies
• Organizational and management systems

Materials

• Advanced ceramics and glasses
• Biomaterials
• Coatings and surface treatments
• Electromagnetic processes of materials
• Materials characterization
• Mechanics of materials
• Multiscale and multiphisics modelling
• Nanomaterials, nanocomposites and nanostructured films
• Polymers and composites
• Porous materials
• Treatments for the recovery of materials from industrial waste
• Wear, corrosion and damage in operation of metallic materials
• Welding and joining processes

Mechanical systems

• Advanced design of machines and mechanical components
• Advanced technologies for diagnostics and monitoring of mechanical systems
• Digitization of manufacturing processes
• Industrial and service robotics
• Mechanical technologies for industrial production
• Mechanical vibrations: control and use
• Mechanisms and automatic machines
• Methods and technologies for quality in production
• Operation and control of mechanical systems
• Robotic systems interacting with humans
• Sports Equipment Engineering
• Structural integrity of machine components
• Terrestrial vehicles

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  DM (Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”)

• Algebra
• Analysis and PDE
• Geometry and Number Theory
• History of Mathematics
• Mathematical Logic
• Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems
• Mathematics for Economics and Finance
• Numerical Analysis
• Operations Research
• Probability
• Analysis of the Social Impact of New Technologies and Digital Revolution
• Artificial Intelligence
• Programming Languages
• Systems and Cybersecurity
• Theory of Computing

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  DISC (Department of Chemical Sciences)

• Chemistry for energy, environment and cultural heritage
• Chemistry for life sciences
• Materials and nanomaterials, surface science
• Supramolecular chemistry and nanochemistry
• Synthesis, reactivity and catalysis
• Theoretical and computational chemistry

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  DTG (Department of Management and Engineering)

Energy

• Applied acoustics, energy management, energy analysis of industrial plants and buildings, heat recovery, absorption systems, two-phase heat exchange, thermophysical properties of refrigerants, nanofluids, refrigeration, alternative fuels, hydraulics, hydromechanical transmissions for vehicular applications, industrial fans, combustion instability.

Economic and Management Engineering

• Operations and supply chain management, new product development management, knowledge management, product customization management, risk management, service management, information and knowledge management, marketing, innovation economics and management, business systems economics, strategy and business models, lean management, project management.

Mechanical Design and Machine Construction

• Mechanics of materials. Damage mechanics. Analysis of stress and strain states, including in-service, of mechanical components. Development and implementation of fatigue and fracture design methodologies for innovative construction materials, with particular reference to polymer matrix composites. Development of methodologies for monitoring structural integrity using multifunctional materials.

Applied Mechanics to Machines

• Functional design of mechanisms and automatic machines; study of vibration phenomena in machines, aimed at both controlling unwanted vibrations and optimizing vibration-generating systems; kinematic and dynamic modeling of mechanisms, mechatronic systems, and robots, including cable-actuated ones; motion planning and control of both rigid and deformable mechanical systems; synthesis of state estimators for multibody systems using integer or reduced-order models; applications of robotics in industrial and medical fields.

Statistics and Operations Research

• Design of experiments, big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, nonparametric statistics, conjoint analysis, ranking and selection, simulation and optimization in industrial and healthcare settings, biostatistics.

Electrical and Information Engineering

• Power electronic devices and systems, Electrical machines and drives, Electrical engineering and industrial plasma applications, Industrial information technology, Electrical measurements and electromagnetic compatibility, Automation and robotic systems for rehabilitation, Conversion systems for renewable energy.

Mechanical Industrial Systems

• Design of production, service, and logistics systems; management of production and logistics systems; ergonomics and safety; maintenance; industrial logistics and supply chain networks; automated, integrated, and flexible logistics and production systems.

Mechanical Technology

• Precision manufacturing and measurement technologies, metal and polymer forming, concurrent product and process design, additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping, dimensional metrology for industrial production, micromachining technologies and systems.

Mathematical Analysis and Geometry

• Remarkable algebraic varieties over finite fields, general combinatorial structures or those embedded in projective spaces, harmonic analysis on varieties, study of multipliers and spectral projectors associated with Laplacians on spheres and nilpotent groups, study of finite-dimensional quantum models: controllability for networks with symmetries and minimum-time problems.

Metallurgy

• Industrial metallurgical processes (iron and steel, foundry, welding, powder metallurgy) and their simulation, ferrous alloys (carbon and stainless steels, cast iron) and non-ferrous alloys (aluminum, magnesium, titanium alloys), innovative materials (metal matrix composites, semi-solid cast alloys).

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  DBC (Department of Cultural Heritage: Archeology, History of Art, Cinema and Music)

• Theater, Music and Cinema
• Theory, methods and criticism of Cultural Heritage
• History, Art and Material Culture
• Territorial planning, protection and enhancement of the Cultural Heritage
• Applied technologies to Cultural Heritage
• Landscapes, settlements and architecture from prehistory to the contemporary

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  DPCD (Department of Private Law and Critical Law)

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  DiPIC (Department of Public, International and Communitarian Law)

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  FISPPA (Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology)

• History of philosophy
• Moral and Political philosophy
• Aesthetics and Theoretical philosophy
• Philosophy of Logic, Language and Science
• Sociology of culture and social changes
• Science, Technology and Media Studies
• Sociology of work processes
• Sociology of religion and spirituality
• Pedagogical and training sciences
• Teaching and educational technologies
• Epistemology, research methodology and evaluation
• Research on inclusion, well-being and sustainability in education
• Mental health and clinical intervention
• Psychological assessment, measurement tools and formal models in psychology
• Individuals, groups and organizations: psychosocial processes, work and well-being
• Social sustainability, inclusion and Life Design

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  DPSS (Department of Developmental and Socialization Psychology)

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  DPG (Department of General Psychology)

• Quantitative Psychology
• Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience
• Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
• Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience
• PsyMed, Health and Medical Psychology
• Human Technology
• Neuroscience of Movement
• Experimental Psychopathology
• Science of Consciousness
• Memory & Learning
• Cognitive Reserve
• Experimental & Applied Psychophysics
• Animal Behaviour and Cognition
• Psychophysiology
• Comparative Cognition
• Neurodevelopment and Disorders
• Non-invasive Brain stimulation
• Experimental and Applied Psychophysics

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  DSEA (Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno”)

Accounting & Finance

• Banking and Corporate Finance
• Financial Reporting and Regulation
• Governance, Accountability and Social Responsibility
• Management Accounting and Control

Economics

• Applied economics and econometrics
• Development Economics
• Economic geography and regional science
• Economic History and History of Economic Thought
• Economic Theory
• Environmental and Energy Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Macroeconomics
• Migration and International Trade
• Political Economy
• Public Economics

Management

• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Operational excellence, Behavioral Operations and Supply chain sustainability
• Organizational Design and Human Resources
• Strategy and Sustainability

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  SPGI (Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies)

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  DSS (Department of Statistical Sciences)

• Statistical Theory
• Statistical Methodology & Modelling
• Machine Learning & Data Science
• High Dimensional Statistics & Computing
• Social Sciences & Population Studies
• Health & Biomedical Sciences
• Energy, Engineering & Physical Sciences
• Economics, Finance & Business

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  DISSGEA (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World)

• Cultural Studies
• Economics
• Gender Studies
• Global and Area Studies
• Heritage Institutions, Policies, Justice
• Landscape
• Religions
• Texts
• Territory
• Violence

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  DISLL (Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies)

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