Agro-Food System

►Compulsory courses for all PhD students 

• Applied statistics  - Prof. Riccardo Negrini (16 hours) - 1st year
• Research Ethics and Epistemology - Prof. Mariachiara Tallacchini (8 hours) - 1st year
• Public speaking - Prof. Federica Missaglia (15 hours) - 1st year
• Environmental ethics and the Christian proposal - Prof. Don Roberto Maier (8 hours) - 3rd year
• Three minutes thesis - Prof. John Laurence Dennis (12 hours) - 3rd year
• Food Consumer Psychology - Prof. Guendalina Graffigna (8 hours) - 3rd year

 

 ► Compulsory courses for PhD students in the economic-legal area

• Sustainable Animal Production - Prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan (8 hours) - 2nd year
• Sustainable Crop Production - Dr. Andrea Fiorini (8 hours) - 2nd year
• Food Technologies and Sustainability - Dr. Gianluca Giuberti (8 hours) - 2nd year

 

►Compulsory courses for PhD students in the biological-agricultural area

• Accounting tools for management - Dr. Ilaria Galavotti (8 hours) - 1st year 
• European Food Law and policy -  Dr. Beatrice La Porta (8 hours) - 2nd year
• Sustainability Management - Dr. Marcello Cosa (8 hours) - 3rd year

 

ENGLISH SKILLS

• English course - Prof. Alessandra Radicchi (45 hours). 
• Academic English Skills - Prof. Alessandra Radicchi (30 hours). 

 

ELECTIVE LINE-UP

To complete the training, each PhD student, in agreement with the tutors, must prepare an ad hoc training plan that includes at least 32 hours chosen from the courses proposed below. The courses will be activated with a minimum of 3 participants.

• Advanced methods for agri-food data analysis - Prof. Riccardo Negrini (dott.

Mario Barbato - 2 hours pratical on R statistic platform) - (8 hours)

• Bees, beekeeping and pollination -Dr. Ilaria Blacks (8 hours) - COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Beneficial microorganisms in the agri-food system - Prof. Edoardo Puglisi (8 hours)
• Business organisation and human resource management - Prof. Francesco Virili (8 hours)
• Carbon farming & agricultural carbon credits - Dr. Andrea Ferrarini (8 hours)
• Climate Change: focus on perennial crops - Prof. Sergio Tombesi (8 hours)
• Development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for sustainable agriculture - Prof. Tito Caffi (8 hours)
• Digitalization, rural development and innovation in agriculture - Prof. Matteo Gatti (8 hours) 
• Genetic modification and assisted evolution technologies in plant breeding - Prof. Matteo Busconi (8 hours)
• Internazionalisation process of higher education: role and tasks for academics and young researcers - Prof. Tito Caffi (8 hours)
• Introduction to application of SYSTEM DYNAMICS modeling approach in biological Science - Prof. Antonio Gallo (8 hours)
• Introduction to epigenetics and epigenomics - Prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan (8 hours)
• Introduction to the Italian tax system in agriculture - Dr. Andrea Purpura (8 hours) - COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Methods to analyse molecular data on agricultural biodiversity - Dr. Licia Colli (8 hours)
• Microbes in the agri-food chain: emerging risk - Dr. Claudia Cortimiglia (8 hours)
• Microbes in the agri-food chain: their positive roles - Dr. Alessandra Fontana (8 hours)
• One Health: Ecosystems humans health and food -  Prof. Daniele Generali (16 hours) 
• Proteomics and metabolomics in the agro-food chain - Dott.
• Gabriele Rocchetti (8 hours)
• Theory, formulation and practical examples of system thinking applied in modeling of complex biological and environmental system - Prof. Antonio Gallo (8 hours)
• Towards Big Data. Informatics tools for data manipulation (course I) - Dr. Alessandra Stella (8 hours)
• Towards Big Data. Informatics tools for data manipulation (course II) - Dr. Alessandra Stella (8 hours)
• Use and Integration of AI in Agrisystem - Dr. Fabrizio Capocasale (8 hours)
• Writing research project and scientific papers - Prof. John Williams (8 hours)