Italian second cycle master's degree (“Laurea Magistrale”, under D.M. 270/04 or “Laurea Specialistica”, under D.M. 509/99) or Italian degree obtained prior to D.M. 509/99 (the previous Italian regulations) or Second cycle Master's degree obtained abroad, equivalent to the above-mentioned Italian degrees and recognized as suitable for the admission to doctoral program.
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The professional figures formed by the PhD course in Neuroscience will have an optimal job placement in public and private structures that carry out continuous research activities (Universities, Research Centers, Healthcare companies and industries with research and development sectors), both nationally and internationally.

More specifically, the cultural and professional profiles of the PhD in Neuroscience are mainly oriented to professional insertion as a basic and/or clinical researcher in medical, biological or psychological disciplinary fields, in public and private areas.

Considering the previously discussed macro-conceptual areas and the specific and transversal training objectives described, the topics of the Basic Neuroscience area allow a professional insertion as a Biotechnologist or medical or pharmaceutical Biologist, Biophysicist, Bioengineer in the fields of molecular, cellular, pharmacological and computational neuroscience (Field of professional insertion: applied research, design and consulting; Sectors: Universities, Research centers, public health and industry).

The topics of the area of Clinical Sciences allow the professional insertion as a neurologist Researcher, Clinical researcher of child neuropsychiatry, psychiatry, psychiatric rehabilitation technique (Areas of professional insertion: applied research, design and consulting; Sector: Universities, Research centers, public health industry and national and international bodies of high specialization in research related to the aforementioned clinical sectors). In this regard, consider the increasingly pronounced need on the part of the National Health System to hire competent personnel to carry out clinical research activities, in addition to the skills necessary to provide health care in the various fields of medicine. This is even more evident for staff operating in the context of the IRCCS, but it also remains valid for staff operating in hospitals and territorial even in general structures.

The topics of the Cognitive Neuroscience and psychology area can refine the preparation and promote the professional insertion of figures as a researcher in psychological and neuropsychological research areas (Field of professional insertion: theoretical and applied research; Sector: Sectors: Universities, Research centers, and public health). He may also be involved in the promotion and dissemination of scientific knowledge, on theoretical, experimental and applicative aspects of neuroscience and cognitive sciences.

The specific training objective of the PhD course in Neuroscience is the theoretical-practical preparation of researchers with an interdisciplinary vision of Neuroscience, and a high degree of specialization in research in these areas, useful for inclusion in research/development in the field of Neuroscience at public or private institutions. The transversal training objective consists in the acquisition of a series of skills and collateral competences essential to operate in the field of biomedical research in public or private institutions. Considering the skills and research activities of the faculty members of the College, the existing laboratories and the equipment already acquired, together with the skills related to the transversal skills present in Unimore, the pursuit of the educational objectives of the doctoral course is fully achievable with the human, financial and instrumental resources already available.

In particular, the achievement of the specific training objective is carried out through the inclusion of PhD students in the main topics of international neuroscientific research with a strong multidisciplinary training and research approach, together with markedly specialized research activities. The specific training is obtained by inserting the student in one or more research groups in which he will be introduced to experimental and theoretical activities in order to acquire the skills necessary for the development of the specific research philosophy for the chosen field. In fact, the student will have to define in the first months of the first year the subject of his research project with the support of the tutor who guarantees the full sustainability and feasibility of the project in terms of financial and instrumental resources.

The multidisciplinary training is carried out both ad personam and through different types of collegiate teaching activities for the acquisition of specific knowledge of the different research areas present in the doctorate.

The achievement of the transversal training objective is carried out through collegial training activities of transdisciplinary relevance which include the following skills:

- scientific English and communicative tools for science
- methodology of biomedical research and biomedical statistics
- research quality, bibliometry, open data and open science
- management of ethical aspects in research design
- writing research projects

There are also training periods at national and international research and higher education facilities in which the student can acquire specialized theoretical and/or methodological skills useful for the pursuit of the objectives set by their research project. The inclusion in a different training and working environment will also allow to perfect the language skills for the international dissemination of its research products, the development of collateral skills necessary for working with different groups in multidisciplinary environments and the coordination of complex and competitive projects.

Finally, the PhD student will be able to achieve autonomy in the design of research related to the different neuroscientific issues that will lead him to an appropriate and updated use of the various technologies and experimental models in relation to the scientific problems faced. The tutor is required to propose to PhD students the participation in teaching and tutoring activities consistent with their disciplinary skills and with the research activity carried out.

Every year, on the occasion of the PhD Day, every PhD student will receive comments, feedback and indications useful for the continuation of his research activity and, more generally, functional to the training of autonomous researchers on original and innovative lines of neuroscientific research. Every year, the tutor of each PhD student will present to the Teaching Board a brief exposition on the student's activities to evaluate the enrollment in the following year. The doctoral thesis represents the final scientific product of each student's research project. It will be submitted to the judgment of two external evaluators and the commission for the final examination and for the achievement of the title d PhD. The Board of Professors guarantees that the results of the research activity of PhD students and future PhDs will be adequately recognizable in the research products that each scientific community related to the Course disseminates with typical internationally codified and shared methods.