22 PhD programmes offered by the university

Data Science is an interdisciplinary field of study that has established itself in recent years in order to offer the methodological tools and technologies necessary for the management and analysis of big data and their valorisation in industry, services, and search. This PhD is offered at Sapienza University of Rome.

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 Service Design for the Public Sector (SDPS) at Sapienza University of Rome aims to train highly qualified professionals to respond to the innovation process in the public sector, particularly in Public Administrations (PAs).

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 International PhD programme in English Literatures, Language and Translation (SELLT), has its administrative base at Sapienza University of Rome and partner base at the University of Silesia in Katowicze.

The National PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Sapienza University of Rome concerns a central theme for digital transformation of society. It aims to mobilize the national community for a PhD in AI at the highest scientific level, such as to boost research and the country's industrial and social innovation.

The need to initiate the International PhD program in Digital Cardiovascular Medicine, Pathology, and Cutting-Edge Therapeutics at Sapienza University of Rome follows the rapid development of basic and translational research applied to the cardiovascular field.

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 Ph.D. program in Engineering in Computer Science offered by the Sapienza University of Rome is aimed at the acquisition of the necessary competence to pursue highly-specialised research activities in many fields of Computer Science and concludes with the preparation of a final thesis.

The International Joint PhD in Social Representations, Culture and Communication at Sapienza University of Rome is an international, inter/trans-disciplinary and cross-sectoral PhD program aimed at advanced training in the social sciences.

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.

Cybersecurity is an interdisciplinary field of study that has established itself in recent years as an evolution of the more traditional information security field. The PhD in Cybersecurity is a joint effort between Sapienza University of Rome and Luiss University.

The Doctoral Program (Ph.D.) in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome is a three year program where students are trained to conduct theoretical and empirical research in economics.

The Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome offers a rich course of studies in the various areas of philosophy and in the history of philosophy.

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).