Career Path

After the PhD

Established as high-level training courses, SISSA PhD programs are now considered a reference model in the international scientific scenario. But what do alumni do once they have finished their studies at SISSA? How do their career paths evolve? The figures gathered from the 1980s to date are highly encouraging:

• 50% of former SISSA students hold a permanent job and at least 93% are employed.
• Over 80% are employed in public academic research. Around 5% are researchers in the private sector or work in ICT field; nearly 3% are employed in the finance sector and over 5% in other fields.
• Around 40% work in Italy, about 25% in other EU countries, and over 13% in the Unites States.
• Over 75% of students wish to keep in touch with SISSA, and to participate in the activities of the Alumni programme.

Focus

The most recent placements after Neurobiology PhD at SISSA:

• Umberto Veronesi Foundation, Milan, IT
• University College London, London, UK
• CNRS, France
• Baylor College of Medicine Huston, USA
• Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, USA
• Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
• Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany
• Columbia University, New York, USA
• University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Success stories

Someone travelled thousands of kilometers, others are only a few hours drive from Trieste: wherever our ex students continue their research career, it is a challenging and exciting path. In this section you can find some successful stories of SISSA alumni, who are now becoming excellent researchers all around the world.

And here you can find every one of our alumni.