IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
| Type | Public |
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| Established | 2004 |
| Director | Pietro Pietrini |
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| Address | Lucca, Italy |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | imtlucca.it/ |
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is a public research institution and a selective graduate school located in Lucca, Italy.
IMT Lucca was founded in 2004 under the name IMT Institute for Advanced Studies. The acronym IMT stands for "Institutions, Markets, Technologies."
As an institute for advanced studies, IMT hosts researchers who carry out methodological research, held to high scientific standards, leading to the development of new knowledge. IMT's specially designed campus fosters the continual presence of visiting scholars that contribute to creating a stimulating and intellectually lively environment.
At the same time, IMT is also an institute of technology where numerous research projects are undertaken to apply cutting-edge scientific results to solve problems of economic, industrial, and societal interest. IMT's institutional role is also that of a graduate school where knowledge is transmitted to PhD students.
Although the school is relatively young, it has already attracted significant attention from national and international media. Its international advisory board includes a number of prominent scientists, including H. Eugene Stanley, Sanjoy K. Mitter and Gerard Roland.
The school consistently performs well in international and Italian research rankings. For several years, it's been ranked as a top school in economics and statistics in Italy and one of the top research institutions in Europe and the World, established post-1980.
The multidisciplinary PhD program of IMT, integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. It offers a unique and characteristic patrimony of competences within the broad framework of the analysis and management of a plurality of systems. The three-year program is articulated in curricula. The 8 curricula currently offered are field-specific, although in many instances they share a common scientific background. Candidates can apply for one (or more) of the following curricula:
IMT concentrates its activities within a limited number of key areas. Moreover, the Institute recruits its faculty on a competitive international scale, evaluating, among other elements, their capacity to publish work in top level international peer-reviewed and high-impact journals.
The pillars of the institute's research model are its thematic research units, highly specialized in a specific field, that often cooperate in interdisciplinary projects:
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