The PhD course in Energy and Environment belongs to the PhD School in Science and Technologies for the Industrial Innovation of Sapienza University of Rome.
In the next decades, nations will face issues related to energy and environment to ensure, at a global level, an actually sustainable development and growth, which combines the available resources with the respect for nature. Interdisciplinary, transnational and innovative knowledge and skills play a critical role as they allow facing complex issues that involve not only technological features, but also social, economic and environmental aspects.
The PhD course in Energy and Environment fits into this new and competitive framework by incorporating the expertise of other PhD courses to improve and complete their educational offers. This process began from the 27th doctoral cycle with the fusion between the PhD courses in Energy Engineering, in Technical Physics, and in Sustainable Development and International Cooperation. Starting from the 28th cycle, the PhD course in Energy Saving and Distributed Micro-Generation, as well as skills in aerospace engineering applications for energy and environment, were also incorporated to form the new PhD course named Energy and Environment: Innovation and Sustainability. From the 29th cycle, the PhD course assumed the current denomination.
With the start of the 30th cycle, due the strong integration among the several topics which the PhD course in Energy and Environment dealt with, the subdivision into different curricula was abandoned in favor of a single curriculum, which, in fact, could better represent the common core of the educational and scientific contents, ensuring, at the same time, the possibility of scrutinizing specific topics.
In this general context, the reference disciplines of the Ph.D. in "Energy and Environment" are the ones of the macro-sector 09/C - Energy Engineering, Thermo-mechanics and Nuclear Engineering, subdivided into the two scientific sectors 09/C1- Machines and Systems for Energy and the Environment and 09/C2 - Technical Physics and Nuclear Engineering. The scientific/disciplinary sectors ING-IND/08 (Fluid Machines) and ING-IND/09 (Systems for Energy and the Environment) belong to the 09/C1 scientific sector. Belong to the sector 09/C2 there are scientific/disciplinary sectors ING-IND/10 (Industrial Technical Physics), ING-IND/11 (Environmental Technical Physics), ING-IND/18 (Nuclear Reactor Physics), ING-IND/19 (Nuclear Installations) and ING-IND/20 (Nuclear Measurements and Instrumentation). The integration offered by colleagues from other scientific-disciplinary sectors completes the skills of the teaching staff. Correspondingly, the teaching staff of the Ph.D. in Energy and Environment is expected to be composed of at least 80% of lecturer belonging to 09/C macro-sector.
Main topics of the PhD course in Energy and Environment are:
- Industrial and Environmental Technical Physics;
- Nuclear Engineering;
- Machinery and Systems for the Energy and the Environment;
- Energy Saving and Distributed Micro-Generation.
The PhD course in Energy and Environment offers also to people who have already entered the labor market the opportunity to increase their skills and gain a higher level of professionalism in the development, management and coordination of research activities, allowing them to assume roles of greater responsibility, thus contributing to the development of the company in which they operate.
Procedures and requirements for the admission to the PhD course in Energy and Environment are indicated in the announcement of selection yearly published in the website of Sapienza University of Rome. Specific indications on the admission tests and related assessment criteria are given on the website of the PhD in "Energy and Environment" in the "News" section.
