Program overview

The PhD student will be mainly engaged in courses offered by the Faculty of IMT. A group of core modules covers basic interdisciplinary skills in the field of digital transformation, enabling digital technologies for Enterprise 4.0, and on innovation. These are accompanied by additional specialist courses, to develop the skills required by the research project. The doctoral path requires the doctoral student to attend a minimum of 150 hours of intensive courses, taken preferably during the first year of the program. 

The program portfolio features the following interdisciplinary core courses on innovation and eneabling digital technologies, such as:

• Basics of technological, social, and legal aspects of cybersecurity

• Cognitive neuroscience tools for economics

• Enabling digital technologies: technical aspects and impact

• Innovation in content production: the case of Festivals as collaborative spaces of cultural production

• Innovation(s) in context: a historical perspective

• Introduction to machine learning

• Management of innovation

• Principles of digital twins

• Analytics

Those courses are complemented by a range of elective advanced courses in engineering, economics and management science, informatics, automation, cultural heritage, and neuroscience, depending upon the individual project topic:

• Business Dynamics and Decision-Making

• Complexity and sustainability

• Computational fluid dynamics for incompressible fluids

• Computer programming with Python

• Concurrent programming (principles)

• Critical thinking

• Data analysis and management for cultural heritage

• Decision intelligence for business strategy and performance management

• Digital twins for health

• Foundations of probability and statistical inference

• Fundamentals of numerical analysis

• Fundamentals of SMEs Management

• Introduction to psychometrics

• Model predictive control

• Numerical methods for the solution of partial differential equations

• Numerical optimization

• Python for data science

• Regulation and competition in the digital economy 

• Software security

• Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing

Long seminars on soft skills are also offered:

• Funding opportunities and management of intellectual property 

• Publication strategies and scientific dissemination

• Fundamentals of academic entrepreneurship

Teaching is carried out by distiguished professors and researchers of the following research units of the School: AXES, LYNX, MOMILAB, MUSAM, SYSMA, NETWORKS, DYSCO. 

Regular seminars offered by researchers from all around the world and by internal faculty members will complement the coursework.