- Spring: application deadline on 20 March 2025

- Fall: application deadline on 21 August 2025.

All candidates will be first screened based on academic qualifications and support letters; a subset of the applicants will be invited to enter a written exam and, eventually, an interview. Both the written exam and the interview will be held remotely. The candidates invited to take part in the written exam will receive more information in due course. For the Spring call, the written exam will be held on April 2-3, and the interviews on April 14. For the Fall call, the written exam will be held on September 3-5, and the interviews on September 16-17.

The call for admission for the Fall round is open here. For more information, please consult the main SISSA PhD admission page (follow the links for "Announcement for the admission to SISSA PhD courses" and "Cognitive Neuroscience"). If you run into any technical or logistical problems in the application process, please send an email to phd@sissa.it and alert one of the faculty as well.