Open PhD positions in ICT at the University of L’Aquila – cycle XLII – a.y. 2026/2027
The PhD Program in ICT at the University of L’Aquila offers 11 scholarships in the context of a graduate school of excellence around the major topics in Information and Communication Technology.
The available grants are as follows:
- 6 grants funded by the University of L’Aquila on all research topics treated in the PhD Program in ICT
- 1 grant funded by the EU project MOSAICO – “Adversarial Attacks on LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures” – Referring Prof. D. Di Ruscio
- 1 grant funded by the EU project DigInTrace – “Development of Data-Driven Abstraction Methods for Dynamical Systems with Probabilistic Guarantees” – Referring Prof. A. D’Innocenzo
- 2 grants funded by Thales Italia S.p.A.
- “Digital Manufacturing for the continuous improvement of industrial performance in aerospace production processes” – Referring Prof. A. D’Innocenzo
- “On board SAR processing for data volume and latency reduction in image recognition and early warning” – Referring Prof. P. Di Marco
- 1 grant funded by Agenzia per la Cybersicurezza Nazionale (ACN) – “Coexistence of quantum cryptography and classical communication over advanced optical fibers” – Referring Prof. C. Antonelli
Applications for the grants funded by the University of L’Aquila are invited from candidates interested in working in the following topics:
- Heterogeneous complex systems modeling and control
- Autonomous systems and intelligent agents
- Identification, learning and data enabled control
- Networked Control Systems
- Resiliency, robustness and security in cyber-physical systems
- Modeling and control in intelligent transportation systems, smart energy systems, smart buildings, smart factory, biological systems
- Fiber-optic communications and photonics
- 5G and beyond-5G wireless communication systems
- Service-aware networking and cybersecurity
- Communication technologies for intelligent transport, smart cities, and Industry 4.0
- Power Converters and intelligent energy systems for industrial applications, e-transportation, smart grids and smart buildings
- Embedded systems
- Human computer interaction
- Algorithmic game theory
- Algorithms and optimization for complex networks and applications
- Algorithm engineering
- Operations research models and methods
- Artificial Intelligence: Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Neurosymbolic AI, Applications
- Autonomic computing and automated software synthesis
- Software engineering
- Model-driven engineering
- Machine learning
- Bioinformatics
- Data science
This wide combination of topics stems from the richness of research interests of faculty members in our department, in the Center of Excellence DEWS, and in the Center of Excellence EX_EMERGE, which combine Information Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics.
Our PhD program in ICT also offers opportunities to spend training periods in world-wide renowned schools having a formal institutional agreement with the University of l’Aquila, such as: University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), ETH Zurich, University College London, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Tabriz, Tianjin University, and Harbin Institute of Technology e University of Wuhan.
Our PhD students will also enjoy a wide choice of courses and a rich schedule of seminars held by scientists of international reputation.
The call for applications is available:
- In Italian – details related to the PhD in ICT positions are at pages 25-29
- In English – details will be available shortly
Application instructions are available in Italian and English (shortly)
The deadline to submit applications is 24 August 2026 at 13:00CEST.
For more information, perspective candidates can visit this page or write to the Program Coordinator (Prof. Davide Di Ruscio) at davide.diruscio@univaq.it
