The program will accept new students through two rounds of admission:
- Spring: application deadline on 20 March 2026
- Fall: application deadline on 20 August 2026.

All candidates will be first screened based on academic qualifications, support letters and an essay to be submitted together with the application (see here for details). A subset of the applicants will be invited to an interview, which will be held remotely. For the Spring call, the interviews will be held on April 13-14. For the Fall call, the interviews will be held on September 7-8.

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.

For further information and informal inquiries on the program, please contact the PhD Coordinator Mathew Diamond (diamond@sissa.it) and/or your prospective supervisor.