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Application deadline: May 15, 2026
Glass (silicate melt) is fundamental in Nature: it shapes Earth’s surface with volcanoes, modifies our planet with magma transfer, allows plate tectonics and Earth dynamics. Glass is fundamental in Material Sciences and Technology: we are surrounded by glass of diverse types, from the common float glass of windows to the sophisticated optical fibers to hi-tech glasses with properties considered unthinkable just a few years ago. Glass is fundamental in the Arts and Cultural Heritage: it has always attracted for its combination of beauty and practical use throughout the last five millennia or more of human history. With time, artistic glassmaking has reached the highest aesthetic peaks. Glass is fundamental to Venice, where the island of Murano has been the world capital of glassmaking for over 1000 years. The circle is completed as glass is returned to nature in the form of sea glass, slowly fading into the ocean where its story ends.
The Academy will cover the Glass topic in a multidisciplinary way and from various viewpoints such as geology, volcanology, industry and technology, archaeology and history, and science and art of artistic glass making. The Academy will also include teaching and development of key transferable professional skills such as science communication.
Suitable for: PhD students, post-docs, and early career researchers working in the interdisciplinary fields of Geosciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Material Sciences, Physics, Archaeology, Archaeometry, Art History, Sculpture, Visual Arts. Applications from excellent candidates from non-member institutions will also be considered and evaluated.
For further information visit our website or send an email to phdacademy@univiu.org
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