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Gabriele Umbriaco

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"

Academic discipline: PHYS-05/A Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Science

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PhD Scholarship Opportunity – Politecnico di Milano / INAF Arcetri

A PhD scholarship opportunity is available under the supervision of Elena Masciadri (INAF – Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory) within the PhD in Physics at Politecnico di Milano.

Research topic:
Optical Turbulence Forecast Applied to the Free-Space Optical Communication (FSOC). The project focuses on developing optical turbulence forecasting methods for free-space optical communications using atmospheric models, machine learning and neural networks. The research will be carried out at INAF Arcetri in collaboration with Thales Alenia Space Italia.

Application deadline: 18 September

More information:

  • English: https://www.polimi.it/?id=5234&L=1

If you are interested, please contact Elena Masciadri directly, elena.masciadri@inaf.it.

Published on: August 04 2026