10 PhD programmes offered by the university

The PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology at Sapienza University of Rome provides students with the theoretical and practical bases to prepare for a research career in Molecular, Cellular and Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology, as well as to tackle, at the experimental and regulatory level, pharmaco-toxicological problems concerning the exposure to natural and synthetic substances.

The PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience at Sapienza University of Rome is designed to train researchers in a multidisciplinary vein and to advance their knowledge in theory, research methodology, and several substantive fields that are part of psychology and social neuroscience field.

The PhD in Electrical, Materials, Raw Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome aims to create a truly multidisciplinary third education level, targeted at the study of research topics in different industrial engineering sectors as electrical engineering, materials engineering, primary and secondary raw materials engineering and micro/nanotechnologies engineering.

The Physics PhD Program at Sapienza University of Rome is finalized to training scientific researchers with a wide spectrum of scientific knowledge.

The PhD course in Cellular and Developmental Biology at Sapienza University of Rome is an Innovative Interdisciplinary Doctorate which aims to provide a high-profile and highly interdisciplinary preparation, based on widely diversified conceptual and methodological approaches.

The European Ph.D. in Socio-Economic and Statistical Studies is an international, interdisciplinary, graduate program which builds upon a consortium of eight partner universities, including Sapienza University of Rome.

The PhD program in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Sapienza University of Rome deals with rigorous theoretical, numerical and experimental approaches to solve new problems of Applied Mechanics.

The main aim of this Life Sciences program at the Sapienza University of Rome is to provide a high-level scientific training for students with a background in life sciences, medicine, engineering, physics, chemistry, pharmacology interested in studying organism functions in health and disease with a multidisciplinary approach.

The PhD program in Molecular Medicine is carried out at Sapienza University of Rome and related clinical facilities (Policlinico Umberto I in Rome, S. Andrea Hospital).

This Accelerator Physics PhD programme at Sapienza University of Rome - unique in Italy - is devoted to the physics of particle accelerators and is promoted by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN).