EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

The PhD Program in Astronomy at the University of Padova offers a broad range of multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and interdisciplinary courses taught by both internal and external lecturers.

PhD students are required to attend the courses they consider most relevant to their training, for a total of 8 credits during the first two years of the program. One credit corresponds to 6 hours of lectures.

At the end of each course, the lecturer issues a certificate confirming attendance and the successful completion of a final exam.
All teaching activities are conducted in English.

By the end of the third year, the PhD student must attend national or international PhD schools on astrophysical topics, for a total of 8 credits. Each week of school corresponds to 4 credits.

Examples: 2 one-week schools or 1 two-week school.

For information and more details:

https://www.dfa.unipd.it/index.php?id=1532&no_cache=1

After completing a course and passing the exam, please have your lecturer fill out the:

FORM

During the third year, you must submit the 'Study Plan': you need to complete the following form with the list of courses taken and the list of schools attended, approved by your supervisor:

STUDY PLAN

JOURNAL CLUB

During your PhD, you are expected to actively participate in the Journal Club. The Journal Club is a weekly meeting (usually held on Mondays) where first- and second-year PhD students present a published scientific article on any astronomical topic. The goal is to help students learn and improve how to present scientific research, following the typical standards of conferences, seminars, and science outreach activities.

For information and details: https://www.dfa.unipd.it/didattica/dottorati-di-ricerca/phd-in-astronomia/educational-activities/journal-club/

ADMISSION TO THE FOLLOWING YEAR

The procedure for admission to the following year of the PhD Program in Astronomy requires each student to submit a written report describing the research activities carried out during the first and second year.

Every year, in the first half of September, a workshop is organized where PhD students are required to present their work to the Collegio Docenti and to their fellow doctoral students.

All organizational details will be communicated in the weeks leading up to the event.