Master degree in the area of Industrial, Electrical or Computer Science Engineering.

The research team consists in professors from the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Elettronica of the University of Catania, people involved in the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia of Catania and from STMicroelectronics. Therefore, the various labs of the three institutions will cooperate during the PhD. Moreover, the research team will be supported by the facilities of the National Research Council (CNR) – Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science “A. Ruberti” and the ENEA – Frascati nuclear fusion labs. The research activities will be also developed with the involvement of the research labs at the TU Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). The international support of the PhD project will be given by the University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA) and from MediaTek (USA).