Printable versionAcademic year 2025-2026
Manifesto of studies a.y. 2025-2026 (didactic offer)
PhD students must obtain 15 credits from institutional courses + 15 credits from other activities (see Credits recognition section for further details).
See in the box download the Manifesto of studies a.y. 2025-2026 approved by the Doctoral Programme Committee on 21.10.2025. After the approval, there can be changes in the timetables, and new courses can be added to the offer.
In the box download you can find also the Short Guide for PhD Students prepared by the central PhD Office S&T Area, in which you can find the answers to many of your doubts or questions about the UniTrento PhD Programmes in general.
Please refer to this web page to find all the updated information.
Click on the individual courses for further info about programs and registration details. Attendance of 75% for all courses is requested. NB: the schedule may change, courses require a minimum enrolment of 3 students.
Period: 3-5 and 13-14 November 2025
Lecturers: Marco Broccardo (DICAM), Marco Salucci (DICAM)
Course: Machine Learning & AI Methods - Theory, techniques, and Advanced Engineering Applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 24 November ‐ 5 December 2025
Lecturers: Andrea Massa (DICAM), Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM)
Course: Inverse Problems and Electromagnetic Diagnostics for Environment
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: 1-5 December 2025
Lecturers: Sara Favargiotti (DICAM), Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM), Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM), Alessandra Marzadri (DICAM), Anna Codemo (DICAM)
Course: On water. Designing climate-responsive landscape and infrastructure
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 1 - 3 December 2025 (online); 7 - 10 January 2026 (in presence)
Lecturers: Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM); Marialaura Bancheri (CNR-ISAFOM (Istituto per i Sistemi Agricoli e Forestali del Mediterraneo)); Riccardo Rigon (DICAM)
Course: GEOframe Winter School GWS2026
Location: DICAM
Hours: 64
Credits: 8
Period: 19 - 30 January 2026
Lecturers: Maurizio Tavelli (Università di Verona), Vincenzo Casulli (DICAM)
Course: Winterschool part I - Advanced numerical methods for free-surface hydrodynamics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Period: 26 - 28 January 2026
Lecturers: Americo Cunha Jr. (National Laboratory of Scientific Computing, Brazil)
Course: Uncertainty Quantification for Computational Predictive Science
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: 2 - 6 February, 2026
Lecturers: Michael Dumbser (DICAM); Olindo Zanotti (DICAM)
Course: short course on Advanced numerical methods for hyperbolic equations 2026
Location: DICAM
Hours: 40
Credits: 5
Period: 3,5,10,12 February 2026
Lecturer: Simone Torresin (DICAM)
Course: Soundscape in the built environment: theory, methods, and applications
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: 23 February-13 March 2026
Lecturers: Ana María Alonso Rodríguez (UNITN/Dept. of Mathematics), Simone Pezzuto (BEM), Robert Nürnberg (FEM)
Course: Mathematical Methods for Engineering
Location: DICAM/Povo 1
Hours: 40
Credits: 5
Period: February 23-March 13, 2026
Lecturers: Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Aaron Salas (DICAM)
Course: Surface Electromagnetics for Wireless Communications and Sensing
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: 2-20 March 2026
Lecturers: Luigi Fraccarollo (DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM); Dino Zardi (DICAM); Sebastiano Piccolroaz (DICAM); Marco Toffolon (DICAM)
Course: Turbulence in environmental flows
Location: DICAM and online
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: 9-13 March, 2026
Lecturers: Paolo Zatelli (DICAM); Alfonso Vitti (DICAM); Marco Ciolli (DICAM)
Course: Environmental data management and analysis with GIS
Location: DICAM and online
Hours: 40
Credits: 5
Period: March 16-27, 2026
Lecturers: Giacomo Oliveri (DICAM), Paolo Rocca (DICAM)
Course: Radar Systems and Technologies
Location: DICAM
Hours: 60
Credits: 3
Period: 13-20 and 27 April 2026
Lecturers: Gianni Andreottola (DICAM); Marco Ragazzi (DICAM); Luca Adami (DICAM)
Course: Fundamentals of Environmental Sustainability
Location: DEM (Department of Economics) and online
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: 2 editions: January 2026 and May 2026
Organizer: HIT - Hub Innovazione Trentino - Fondazione
Course: Research to business: a technology transfer approach
Location: c/o HIT, Povo Trento
Hours: 25
Credits: 3
Period: 19 and 20 May 2026
Lecturer: Luigi Sanfilippo (Engineer, Assistant Freelancer)
Course: Big Data and Mobility: Tools and Innovative Solutions
Location: DICAM and online
Hours: 8
Credits: 1
Period: April-May 2026
Lecturer: Paolo Scardi (DICAM)
Course: X-ray Diffraction applied to the study of polycrystalline materials: theory and practice
Location: DICAM
Hours: 36
Credits: 4,5
Period: May 2026 (TBC)
Lecturer: Gianluca Maracchini (DICAM)
Course: Life Cycle Assessment for the built environment: theory, methods, and applications
Location: DICAM and online
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: 1 week in summer 2026
Lecturers: Guido Zolezzi (DICAM); Walter Bertoldi (DICAM); David Vetsch (ETH Zurich); Annunziato Siviglia (DICAM)
Course: Integrated river morphodynamics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 32
Credits: 4
Period: 15-21 July 2026
Lecturer: Davide Noè Gorini (DICAM)
Course: Dynamic Performance of Soil-Structure Systems
Location: DICAM
Hours: 10
Credits: 1
Period: July 2026
Lecturer: Sara Favargiotti (DICAM); Maddalena Ferretti (DICEA UNIVPM); Barbara Lino (DARCH UNIPA); Diana Rolando (DAD POLITO); Chiara Chioni (DICAM)
Course: Co-creative learning and design: methods and practices for interdisciplinary and multiscale collaborative design
Location: DICAM
Hours: 24
Credits: 3
Period: June 30 - July 7, 2026
Lecturers: Simona Bordoni (DICAM); Lorenzo Giovannini (DICAM); Massimo Cassiani (DICAM)
Course: Numerical Modelling of Weather and Climate
Location: DICAM
Hours: 36
Credits: 4,5
Period: late July 2026
Lecturer: Alfonso Vitti (DICAM); Andrea Nascetti (KTH, Sweden)
Course: Advanced geomatics and Earth observation for environmental and civil engineering
Location: DICAM
Hours: 30
Credits: 3,5
Period: September 2026
Lecturers: Sara Favargiotti (DICAM); Camilla Pezzica (Cardiff University, UK); Giovanna A. Massari (DICAM); Chiara Chioni (DICAM)
Course: Collaborative approaches for the digital documentation, representation and design of territories and landscapes
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: September 2026
Lecturers: Manuela Cecconi (University of Perugia); Alessandro Fraccica (ISPRA); Giuseppe Pedone (DICAM); Marianna Pirone (University of Napoli Federico II); Lucia Simeoni (DICAM)
Course: Slope instabilities and their diagnosis: a geotechnical perspective of a multidisciplinary problem
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5 type B
Period: September-October 2026
Lecturers: Claudia Battaino (DICAM); Claudia Sansò (DICAM)
Course: Instruments and methodologies for architectural design research
Location: DICAM
Hours: 12
Credits: 1,5
Period: summer or fall 2026
Lecturer: Paolo Scardi (DICAM)
Course: Molecular Dynamics: a primer with elements of statistical mechanics
Location: DICAM
Hours: 16
Credits: 2
Period: to be defined
Lecturer: Luca Deseri (DICAM)
Course: Introduction to the mechanics of multiscale disarranged continua through structured deformations
Location: DICAM
Hours: 24
Credits: 3
Period: Fall 2026
Lecturers: to be defined
Course: Ground Penetrating Radar for Civil and Environmental Inspections (GPRI)
Location: DICAM
Hours: to be defined
Credits: to be defined
Period: Fall 2026
Lecturers: to be defined
Course: Phased Array Antenna Analysis and Synthesis
Location: DICAM
Hours: to be defined
Credits: to be defined
Period: postponed to next academic year
Lecturers: Glenn Tootle (University of Alabama); Giuseppe Formetta (DICAM)
Course: Hydro Climatology and Paleohydrology
Location: DICAM and online
Hours: 30
Credits: 4
Other courses - Soft Skills:
Period: classes timetable 2025-26 (first semester) is available here. Check the Syllabus on the dedicated wep-page of CLA
Lecturers: Felicity Anne Hope (CLA)
Courses: Technical Scientific English
Hours: 24
Credits: 3 type B
Period: 25 November, 2,3 and 12,13 December 2025
Lecturers: UniTrento Open Science Committee, Research Outputs Office, Digital services for research office
Courses: The General Principles of Open Science
Hours: 5 modules of 2 hours each - link to register: https://eventi.unitn.it/it/principi-generali-di-scienza-aperta
Credits: 1 credit type B
Period: November 2025 - January 2026
Lecturers: UNITN health and safety officers and consultants
Courses: Laboratory health and safety (LHS)
Hours: 4 + 8
Credits: no credits
