ICTP Postgraduate Scholarship 2025 For Developing Countries | Fully Funded
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics has called for applications for the 2025 ICTP Postgraduate Scholarship.
The ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Scholarship is tuition-free with 10 yearly scholarships plus travel grant for applicants from developing countries.
Eligibility Criteria:
- The ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Scholarship Programme is open to young (generally below 28 years of age), qualified graduates from all countries that are members of the United Nations, UNESCO or IAEA.
- The minimum qualification for applicants is a degree equivalent to an MSc (or an exceptionally good BSc) in physics, mathematics or in a field related to the topics listed below.
- The Programme is open to young qualified graduates in physics, mathematics or related fields.
- The selection of the candidates is based on their university performance as well as on academic recommendations.
- The selection committee aims to select the best academically qualified candidates while striving for gender balance and geographical distribution.
- After the completion of the courses (including examinations), participants are required to work on a dissertation, to be submitted and defended.
Benefits:
- Tuition-free; 10 yearly scholarships plus travel grant for applicants from developing countries.
- A limited number of scholarships (around 10 per field) are awarded to successful candidates from developing countries (with particular emphasis on students from the least developed regions of the world) to cover travel and living expenses during their stay at ICTP.
Requirements:
- For Condensed Matter Physics: solid state physics; quantum mechanics; statistical mechanics; classical mechanics; electrodynamics; mathematical physics.
- For High Energy, Cosmology and Astropartical Physics: classical mechanics; electrodynamics; special theory of relativity; quantum mechanics; statistical mechanics.
- For Earth System Physics: a theoretical background in physics, mathematics or engineering; mathematical methods applied in geophysics and geosciences.
- For Mathematics: basic abstract algebra; elements of real and complex analysis; topology.
- For Quantitative Life Sciences: classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, mathematical methods for physics, basic programming skills
How to Apply?
Deadline: March 15, 2025
