How the Study Plan works – Physics of Data

Master’s course

How the Study Plan works

Description

The Study Plan (Piano di studio) is the list of all the activities (courses, internships, etc.) you must complete in order to obtain the credits required to graduate.

Filling in your Study Plan is mandatory. You must submit it online (via Uniweb) within specific timeframes.

For A.Y. 2025/2026, the procedure is available from November 5th 2025 to September 22nd 2026 . Outside of the period mentioned above, the procedure will be inactive.

The Study Plan can be modified along the academic career, until you register for graduation.

WARNING: once the registration for graduation has been submitted, it won’t be possible to edit the study plan.

While you complile Study Plan you may opt for:

an automatically approved plan – in this case the plan can be customized to some extent only and will be automatically approved –

a subject to approval plan – in this case, the plan is highly customizable but it requires the approval of the Study Plan Commission; in order to increase the chance of approval, it is strongly recommended to choose courses that are consistent with the learning objectives of the master’s degree in Physics of data.

Please consider that first-cycle degree courses cannot be included in the Study Plan.

Periodically, the members of the Study Plan Commission will evaluate the study plans waiting for approval. Uniweb will notify the approval or rejection of the study plan including an explanatory note.

Should you have any doubts related to the procedure of submission of your study plan, please contact the Academic Office (didattica.dfa(at)unipd.it) for assistance.

For strictly academic counseling, please contact the Study Plan Commission instead.

Study Plan Commission

Prof. Sandro Azaele for “Complex Systems and Interdisciplinary Physics” information

Prof. Michele Liguori for “Astrophysics and Cosmology” information

Prof. Jacopo Pazzini for “Machine Learning and Industrial Application” information

Prof. Andrea Triossi for “Fundamental Physics” information

Prof. Samir Suweis for “Quantum” and general information

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Characteristics and objectives

The program intends to build an academic and professional figure that combines advanced knowledge in the field of Physics with a high-level training in Data Science.

The modeling and the theoretical interpretation of complex natural phenomena from large amounts of data are at the core of the research in Physics.

The Big Data revolution presents in this sense the challenges and opportunities for the physicist of today. In addition to the figure of Data Scientist, specialized purely in the analysis of large amounts of data, it is increasingly clear the need to also train figures able to develop the methods and techniques that are fundamental for such analysis – in this sense we named the program of Physics of the Data.

Training in Physics, Mathematics and Computation is increasingly necessary to generate such innovation and development.

The program will thus train a new generation of physicists, which we could define as ‘data physicists’, equipped with tools that will allow them to face the challenges that the digital revolution has brought in our society .