Competitions are open for admission to PhD Programs at IMT (Institutions Markets Technologies).

Deadline for application is November 22nd, 2005. Courses start in January 2006.

The PhD Program in Biorobotics Science and Engineering aims at training highly competent researchers with the potential to lead Biorobotics research worldwide.

Biorobotics is a new scientific and technological area with a unique interdisciplinary character. It derives its methodology mainly from the sectors of Robotics and Biomedical Engineering, but boasts its cultural and application scope towards many sectors of engineering, towards basic and applied science (medicine, neuroscience, economics, law, bio/nanotechnologies in particular), and even towards humanities (philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethics).

Biorobotics aims at increasing knowledge on how biological systems work by analyzing them from a “biomechatronic” viewpoint, and exploiting this knowledge in order to develop innovative methodologies and technologies, both for the design and construction of high performance bio-inspired machines and systems (at the macro, micro and nano scales), such as animaloid and humanoid robots, and for developing devices for biomedical applications, e.g., for minimally-invasive surgery and neuro-rehabilitation.

The program will impart on its graduates a professional profile that combines substantial technical and scientific expertise in advanced areas, and a system-oriented approach to design problems, with a vision that retains man at the centre of the development and the evaluation of technology, and with the capability of conceiving and designing new and innovative (including industrial) research projects, with an autonomous entrepreneurship capability.

For more info about the program:
http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/biorobotics_science_engineering/index.php
For more info about the competition:
http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/open_applications/index.php
Online Application:
http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/open_applications/login.php