Organization: Institute for Advanced Study in Pavia
Registration deadline: 09 Mar 2018
Starting date: 01 Oct 2018
Ending date: 30 Sep 2022
The 2018/2019 edition of the Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (ROSE) curriculum of the PhD Programme in Understanding and Managing Extremes (UME) is being offered by the UME Centre of the IUSS Pavia. The PhD courses aim to provide students the highest quality training with an unique scientific and professional expertise and advanced knowledge of the cultural, technical and managerial characteristics of earthquake engineering and engineering seismology . The syllabus offers a comprehensive set of subjects covering applied mechanics, structural engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering seismology and soil dynamics, with emphasis on both theoretical background and design considerations. The fundamental fields of instruction include aspects of seismology, geology, geotechnics, behaviour of materials and structures, structural analysis, design of new structures and upgrading of existing structures.
Applications are currently open, with a deadline of March 9th at 13:00 CET and 8 scholarships are available for the highest ranking applicants. Full details of the programme, as well as the application procedure and scholarship opportunities, can be found at www.roseschool.it/page/252/application-procedure.html
The PhD Programme has been designed to deal with three main areas:
- disaster risk assessment, focusing mainly on natural hazards such as earthquakes hurricanes, fires, landslides and floods (with possible extensions to the topics of climatology, desertification, human-made and technological risks, environmental and chemical risks, etc.)
- extreme situation management, which includes topics of statistics and probability, law, economics, resource management, finance, insurance, sociology, ethics, psychology and medicine.
- engineering for risk mitigation, which includes topics on engineering to increase the capacity of buildings and infrastructure to withstand the demands from extreme events.
The doctoral programme aims to train graduates and professionals in the assessment, mitigation and management of extreme events (both before and after they occur), with a particular focus on those arising from natural hazards though some aspects of human-made, technological and biomedical risk will also be covered.
Key characteristics of the programme
- Exclusive international exposure, broad and interdisciplinary curricula;
- Unique opportunity to work with highly motivated and skilled students coming from all over the world, guided by the most important and highly qualified academics and professionals in the field.
The UME PhD programme features two curricula:
- Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
- Weather, Geological, Chemical and Environmetal Risk
Applications start page https://myiuss.unipv.it/iscrizioni_PhD.php?id=53
How to register: