Enrollment Procedure

If you have been admitted as Ph.D. student at SISSA, an official communication from SISSA Director will be sent to you by the Students' Secretariat.

First of all you must confirm acceptance of Ph.D. by sending an e-mail to phd@sissa.it All Ph.D. students will be awarded a fellowship of the amount of € 16.242,32 gross per year (approx. € 1195,00 net per month). Moreover a contribution towards living expenses (€ 1.800,00 gross per year) will be also given to you. In order to request it, you need to fill in the form with the registered House rental contract.

Admission criteria

To be admitted to the School, candidates must hold the Italian Laurea ("Laurea vecchio ordinamento", "Laurea Specialistica" or "Laurea Magistrale") in a scientific subject, or a University degree obtained abroad and considered equivalent, by the governing bodies of the School (i.e. M.Sc.). This degree must have been conferred within the end of the month when your PhD will begin, which is:

• October - to attend Ph.D. programs in Mathematics Area, Physics Areas and Cognitive Neuroscience Area.

• November - to attend Ph.D. programs in Neurobiology, Functional and Structural Genomics.

Enrollment procedure

The enrollment procedure is now active on Esse3 website.

The enrollment on Esse3 website is a 2 steps procedure:

• 1) You have to register your personal information and you create a login and password. Please pay attention about your personal information on the Esse3 registration because an error or a wrong Fiscal Code can slow down your registration and create problems in order to provide your SISSA account and e-mail.

• 2) The Secretariat will ask you to enroll to your Ph.D. course.

Through the registration on Esse3, you can provide to SISSA your personal information and your bank account information (IBAN). If you do not have a bank account, you can skip this step of the procedure. In order to receive your salary from SISSA, you need a SEPA (EU) bank account in your name.

Within the first week of your Ph.D. program, you have to send to the Students' Secretariat the Enrollment Form together with the copy of payment of the tax of € 16,00 (marca da bollo). You must pay the tax (Marca da bollo) by PagoPA it PagoPA en (Instructions for payments with PagoPA).

To complete the Enrollment procedure, please also check ARDiS_Procedure.

Further info

Should you need further info, please feel free to write to phd@sissa.it.

Forms

• Request for Enrollment
• Request for Enrollment - No fellowship
• Request to suspend/extend the suspension/end of the suspension of the PhD fellowship
• Request for the advance payment of the PhD fellowship
• Request to give up the PhD fellowship
• Request for the increase of the PhD fellowship for missions abroad
• Self-certification (in Italian) to join INFN