The PhD in Physics is a path of higher cultural and professional education, which aims to integrate students into the national and international scientific community. The DPhil in Physics acquires, during its formation, a capacity for adaptation and flexibility that are a recognized specific characteristic of this path. 
The most common career opportunities are in academia and at national or international research institutions, in the private sector at companies, banks, and various institutions with an interest in technological and research developments, and in teaching at primary and secondary schools.
The approach to academia is via recruitment with postdoctoral fellowships in other international research centers, in view of permanent employment in an Italian, European, or non-European research center. International experience is a key moment to bring research capabilities to full maturity. The widespread success of the PhDs in Physics of Padua in the calls for post-doc positions has helped confirm the PhD in Physics as a school of excellence in the training of young researchers. 
Beyond the academic outlet, the PhD in Physics provides excellent skills in managing new experimental and/or numerical problems solving technologies that are in high demand in advanced fields of private research, scientific or financial, or business management. For this reason, the PhDs in Physics of Padua have more than positive prospects of entering the national and international private sector, where the demand for skills in physics, technology, information technology, and statistics is growing in a wide variety of sectors. Finally, the introduction to a teaching path is traditionally linked to the doctoral path and is favored here by the presence of a training course dedicated to the teaching of Physics as well as by the continuous and structured contacts between members of the PhD board members and teachers in school. These contacts have as concrete effects the preparation of seminars in schools held by doctoral students interested in presenting the activities carried out within the Department. The interest of the school environment in the doctorate in Physics is also demonstrated by the presence among our doctoral students, of teachers who request a three-year secondment to our doctoral school for advanced training