Research Topics - XXXIX Course

Curriculum Biology applied to Agriculture and Environment (Cod. 9947)

N. 5 grants of which:

(#) 2 grants funded by University of Genova (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

(*) 1 grant funded by MUR/DISTAV (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

(**) 1 grant funded within D.M. 118 del 2.3.2023 (addressed on PNRR topics), under condition to the approval of Ministerial funding (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

(***) 1 grant funded by DISTAV (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

Research themes

The candidate must choose one of the following proposed themes. Projects on topics other than those listed below will be evaluated with zero points.

1) Characterization and valorisation of products, by-products, and bioactive compounds from the agri-food chain (#)

2) Biology and ecology of invasive alien species: Scyphophorus acupunctatus and Xylosandrus compactus (*)

3) Urban green and Nature-based Solution for particulate matter mitigation (**)

4) Presence of Antibiotic resistance indicators in the environment (in collaboration with Regione Liguria/ARPAL) (***)

5) Determination of the efficacy and safety of active principles derived from sea side-streams (#)

6) Contribution to the knowledge and enhancement of biodiversity in urban areas: the soil fauna in public green areas and in historic city parks (#)

Further information and the official calls are available on the Doctorate STAT website (http://www.distav.unige.it/phdstat/it) at the page Documents or can be requested to:

Prof. Laura Cornara (laura.cornara@unige.it) for theme 1;
Prof. Mauro Mariotti (m.mariotti@unige.it) for theme 2;
Prof. Enrica Roccotiello (enrica.roccotiello@unige.it) for theme 3;
Prof. Elena Grasselli (elena.grasselli@unige.it) for themes 4 and 5;
Prof. Stefano Vanin (stefano.vanin@unige.it) or Prof. Loris Galli (loris.galli@unige.it) for theme 6

Curriculum Earth Sciences (Cod. 9948)

N. 4 doctorate grants, of which:

(#) 2 grants funded by University of Genova (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

(**) 1 grant funded within D.M. 118 del 2.3.2023 (addressed on Cultural Heritage topics), under condition to the approval of Ministerial funding (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

(***) 1 PNRR grant funded in the frame of the PNRR PE3 RETURN Partnership (annual gross amount of € 16.500, including social security expenses to be paid by the recipient).

Research themes

Candidates must choose only one of the 7 research topics listed below: projects on different topics are evaluated with zero points.

1) Timing, facies and (bio)diversity of the shallow marine deposits of the Oligocene transgression in Liguria and southern Piedmont: coupling biostratigraphic data and high resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (*).

2) Geophysical and paleomagnetic model of the evolution and growing rates of Brothers submarine volcano in the Kermadec Arc from IODP Expedition 376 data (*).

3) Records of seismic cycles in high pressure exhumed oceanic units: structural characterization (*).

4) Eclogitization of the oceanic lithosphere by hydration of brittle structures (*).

5) Geogenic Radioactivity for Predicting Ionizing Radiation Hazard and Indoor Radon (*).

6) Experimental study of natural cobalt blue pigments, funded in the PNRR program, D.M. 118 of the 02.03.2023, topic Cultural Heritage (**).

7) Slope stability analysis under a changing climate, funded in the frame of the PNRR PE3 Partnership program RETURN (***).

Further information and the official calls are available on the Doctorate STAT website (http://www.distav.unige.it/phdstat/it) at the page Documents or can be requested to: