PhD Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Florence
Key Information
Campus location
Florence, Italy
Languages
English
Study format
Blended
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
The PhD programme (according to the Italian Dottorato di Ricerca) is a postgraduate academic qualification. It represents the implementation of the 3rd cycle of education and training to research (according to the Bologna accord) in the Italian academic system and provides the abilities and competencies required for carrying out highly-qualified research in universities, public institutions and private companies. It also offers a higher professional & research-oriented education for managing and leading technical development for major companies and enterprises, at national as well as European/International level.
The general objective is the education of researchers and experts in the innovative aspects related to the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
The Academic Board of each course, on the basis of the list of enrolled students, provides for the allocation of scholarships. The annual amount of the scholarship is € 16.243,00, with disbursement in deferred monthly instalments (payment is made on the last non-business day of the month).
The amount of the scholarship is increased by 50% for any authorized periods of stay abroad for research activities related to the thesis project, up to a maximum of 18 months.
To this amount must be added, for the first, second and third year of the course, the budget for research activities in Italy and abroad equal to 10% of the amount of the scholarship, for a minimum amount of € 4.872,90.
Scholarship holders are required to register with INPS (National Institute of Social Security).
PhD students admitted by the Academic Board to the following year of the course will receive instructions on how to enrol by email from the PhD Office.
Curriculum
The PhD course is articulated in three curricula:
Solid, fluid, and material mechanics
- A Plastic Budget Methodology to Model Plastic Pathways, degradation, and Storage in rivers, Coastal Areas, and open seas
- Hydro-morphodynamics of rivers and interactions with vegetation, bridges, and levees
- Analytical, computational, and probabilistic models for masonry and masonry structures
- Innovative methods in computational mechanics
- Modeling, experimental testing, and design of materials and metamaterials for structural use
- Micro and nanostructured materials
- Experimental, analytical, and numerical models for composites
- Smart materials and structures
Construction design, verification, and control
- Non-deterministic numerical geotechnical seismic site response analysis
- Energetic sustainability, technological innovation, and safety of new buildings and existing building heritage
- BIM for digitalization of building and construction process
- Materials, equipment and technologies for transportation infrastructures.
- Experimental workflow through free and open-source software for the creation of a non-conventional platform for overcoming GIS and BIM limits in the management of built heritage
- Study and development of Machine Learning-based approaches for Structural Health Monitoring of historical constructions
- Contemporary and historic structures: assessment, modeling, retrofitting, and monitoring
- Experimental and numerical modeling of wind-structure interactions
- Mechanical and numerical models for steel and reinforced concrete structures
- Risk and resilience assessment of existing bridge networks
- Innovative solutions for antiseismic constructions
Environment, resources, and security
- Methodologies for Water – Energy - Food – Ecosystems Nexus study and management
- Probabilistic methods for assessment of seismic liquefaction effects.
- Multi-risk management and climate change adaptation in urban hotspots.
- Innovative methods in computational mechanics
- Organic Waste and Bioplastics composting
- Tools, methods, and models to design, assess, plan develop, and exploit mobility and transportation services and technologies including ITS and automated mobility
- Safety Systems, Human Factors, Vulnerable Road Users and Safe Roads
- Integrating Digital Image Correlation Techniques and UAV Photogrammetric Surveys for advanced slope instability monitoring
- Ubiquitous/indoor positioning, navigation, and sensor fusion
- Coastal, Offshore and Marine Renewable Engineering
- Resources and energy recovery from wastewater and wastes'