<html><body><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear Looping community,</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Can I ask your help advertising<span style="text-transform: none;"> our bursary PhD positions — at my institution, in Lucca, Italy — to potentially interested students?</span></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We are a PhD-only university (i.e. we do not have internal applicants) and each year we offer various bursary PhD positions across different tracks. The most relevant PhD track (the one in which I am also involved) is the one in <a href="https://sys.imtlucca.it/program-overview/complex-systems-and-networks-cn" data-outlook-id="a0eb34d2-8fe8-427b-94a4-38819c2f6d73">Complex Systems and Networks</a>.</div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">These are all fully funded PhD positions, inclusive of college accommodation and free meals, that offer a decent amount of freedom (students choose their own project and supervisor in the first year, after they have already enrolled in the programme, and they are encouraged to spend at least six months abroad in a laboratory of their choice during the PhD — receiving extra funding if they do). </div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The link is here (deadline on the 25th May):</div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://sys.imtlucca.it/sysimt-school" data-outlook-id="2e195dea-c9f3-4aee-8bcc-6cfbf80604bd">https://sys.imtlucca.it/sysimt-school</a></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I would love to get applications from “looping” students.<br><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best wishes,</div><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Andrea</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Andrea Perna</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Assistant Professor</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Research Unit NETWORKS</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Statistical Physics & Complex Systems</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>IMT School for Advanced Studies</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Piazza S. Francesco, 19 - 55100 Lucca, Italy</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Mobile: +39 388 9028313</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><a href="http://www.imtlucca.it/andrea.perna" data-outlook-id="ca209181-1b2c-4623-bee6-14e6b563068f" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.imtlucca.it/andrea.perna</a></span></p></div></body></html>