Curriculum 3 - Planetary Sciences

Planetary Sciences addresses important scientific questions inherent in the processes that have determined the formation and evolution of the Solar System, to those that shaped the appearance, nature and properties of the planets and minor bodies, to those governing the interactions between the various components and that fostered the genesis of resources, to those that enabled the appearance of life and the evolution of life itself on a planet.

The specific training of this curriculum is divided into several phases that invest the various areas of interest: development of instrumentation for space exploration of the Solar System; analysis of data acquired from space missions; modeling and laboratory activities in support of the space missions and analysis of data acquired from space; study of geo-mineralogical contexts planetary and asteroidal, meteoritic material and their terrestrial analogues; study of resources present on the Moon, Mars, and asteroids and development of technologies for their use in situ aimed at supporting human exploration.

Details about funded positions for each Cycle are listed in the Menu.