Educational Programme

The educational programme is designed to enhance the critical thinking skills and foster the  scientific independence of doctoral candidates. It includes participation in highly specialised courses and involvement in experimental research activities, both of which are crucial for the PhD student future career development. Moreover, the programme provides doctoral candidates with opportunities to collaborate on studies and research with esteemed international institutes and research centres, both within the country and overseas. This enables them to expand their knowledge and gain internationally recognised training. Doctoral candidates will be trained to acquire interdisciplinary skills that enable them to understand, utilise, and develop innovative solutions in the promotion of human health, disease prevention starting from environmental protection, biodiversity, ecosystems and their services.

The learning activities in the doctoral programme can be divided as follow:

• Training activities to address any educational gap in one or more of the academic fields covered by the multidisciplinary doctorate.

• Lenctures dedicated to the PhD students of the programme.

• Training activities delivered through specific seminars.

• Transversal training activities provided by the IUSS.

• Transversal/soft skill training activities provided by other entities.

• Advanced training activities.

• Tutoring and teaching support activities.

SEMINARS

Martedì 03 Febbraio alle 15.00, presso l’aula B3

The power and the beauty of mass spectrometry: application to environmental and biological challenges

Prof. Albert Lebedev del Shenzhen MSU-BIT

University (CN)

Venerdì 27 febbraio 2026 alle ore 14:30 in aula Levi dei NIB

From Waste to valuable Resources: Technological Advances in Horticultural By‑product Valorization 

Prof. Francisco Artés-Hernández 

Full Professor on Postharvest / Food Technology of the Technical University of Cartagena, SPAIN

Lunedì 16 marzo 2026 alle ore 15:00 in aula D4 dei NIB :

Redox Signaling in the Gastrointestinal Tract

Dr. Juan Sastre
Full professor of Physiology, University of Valencia, Spain

Lunedì 30 Marzo 2026 alle ore 14:30 nell’aula D4 dei Nuovi Istituti Biologici (Mammut), 

Rivoluzionare la vite: genome editing e miglioramento microbico per un futuro sostenibile 

Drl Walter Chitarra & Luca Nerva Ricercatori presso il Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA), Centro di ricerca per Viticoltura e Enologia (CREA-VE)

Martedi 14 Aprile 2026 alle 14.30,  nelll’aula D6 dei Nuovi Istituti Biologici, 

Advanced gas chromatography-based methods used in food analysis

Prof. Peter Q Tranchida dell’Università di Messina