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MIB-SOLAR Center offers state-of-the-art facilities for cutting-edge research in Materials Science in a world-class environment. We incessantly look for young researchers with passion for solar energy materials and devices and willing to join internationally renowned teams, with emphasis to gender issues and applicants from economies in transition. Working in the MIB-SOLAR center is more than a simple fellowship. It gives you the opportunity to get more out of your abilities and gain skills in a fascinating emerging technology to successfully join the high-tech job market bordering the Bicocca area or worldwide companies.
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Open Positions:
No scholarship opportunities directly financed by the Centre at the moment.
The Centre hosts the activities of numerous PhD students in Materials Science and Nanotechnology and in Chemical Sciences. Our University offers several scholarships each year for these two PhD courses. The call for applications for positions starting from November 2026 (42nd cycle) will be published in April 2026 on this page, where you can also find all the information on the application procedure. If you are interested in applying for a doctoral thesis on the topics covered by the Centre, please contact the contact persons for the individual activities in March 2026 (for CZTS-based solar cells and perovskite cells write to Prof. Simona Binetti; for dye-sensitised photovoltaic cells and water splitting by photocatalysis/photoelectrocatalysis sensitisation write to Prof. Alessandro Abbotto or Prof. Norberto Manfredi; for the other topics write to the contact persons for the specific reserach line).