Current educational offer

Courses

The current-year training offer.

Academic year 2026

Training programme

The DRII training programme combines advanced specialised courses, closely aligned with the programme’s research areas, with transversal training activities designed to complement doctoral students’ scientific expertise. These include academic communication, research management and funding, scientific dissemination, intellectual property, open science, research ethics and gender equality. The courses offered during the current academic year are listed below. Course materials and teaching activities are managed through the University’s Moodle platform.

January

Scientific Writing

Lecturer: Alberto Borboni

Hours: 18 hours

February/March

PhD Language Skills Project - General English

Lecturer: Robert Coates

Hours: 30 hours

February

Introduction to Research

Lecturer: Giovanni Abbiati

Hours: 20 hours

March/April

Poster and Oral Presentation

Lecturer: Stefania Federici, Annalisa Zacco

Hours: 8 hours

March/April

Graph Theory and its Applications

Lecturer: Anita Pasotti

Hours: 20 hours

March

Bayesian Statistics and Causal Inference: Foundations and Computational Practice

Lecturer: Federico Cerutti

Hours: 10 hours

April/May

PhD Language Skills Project - Academic English Writing

Lecturer: Robert Coates

Hours: 16 hours

May

Perspectives and Practical Implications of Big Data Management in Modern Data Architectures

Lecturer: Massimiliano Garda

Hours: 14 hours

May/June

PhD Language Skills Project - Public Speaking

Lecturer: Robert Coates

Hours: 16 hours

May

Knowledge Graphs: Fundamentals

Lecturer: Anisa Rula

Hours: 10 hours

June/July

Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Cryptography

Lecturer: Luca Giuzzi, Maurizio Artoni

Hours: 21 hours

June

LLMs Beyond the Results

Lecturer: Luca Putelli

Hours: 13 hours

June/July

Internet of Things for Smart Cities and Communities

Lecturer: Salvatore Dello Iacono

Hours: 12 hours

June/July

Optical Linear Spectroscopy for Dielectric Media

Lecturer: Paolo Franceschini

Hours: 14 hours

June/July

An Introduction to Abstract Argumentation

Lecturer: Pietro Baroni

Hours: 3 hours

July

Photonics for Sensing

Lecturer: Davide Rocco

Hours: 3 hours

July

Numerical Simulations and Applications: Finite Element Analysis

Lecturer: Andrea Tognazzi

Hours: 6 hours

July

The Lagrangian Relaxation and its Applications

Lecturer: Renata Mansini, Roberto Zanotti

Hours: 17 hours

July/September

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Lecturer: Elisabetta Comini, Dario Zappa, Federico Rigoni

Hours: 18 hours

September

Mobile Interaction Design

Lecturer: Barbara Rita Barricelli

Hours: 15 hours

September

Algebraic and Analytical Methods in Coding Theory

Lecturer: Simone Costa, Stefano Della Fiore

Hours: 16 hours

October

Modern Recommender Systems: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications

Lecturer: Ada Bagozi

Hours: 14 hours

October/November

Energy Transition and Digitalization: From Centralized Power Systems to Smart Grids

Lecturer: Marco Pasetti

Hours: 15 hours

Teaching and course materials

Course materials and teaching activities

Open Moodle