Research

All information about the different disciplines addressed by centres and units organised into three main categories and the transversal category of Open Science

SOMMa Research disciplines

SOMMa centres and units cover a wide breadth of scientific disciplines, from life sciences and medicine, mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering, to humanities, economics and social sciences.

  • Life Sciences

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  • Maths, Experimental Sciences and Engineering

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  • Social Sciences and Humanities

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  • Open Science

    Scientific knowledge openly hared, fuelling the discovery process, and empowering society

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Key facts in Research

Cutting-edge research performed at SOMMa centres and units is published in top-tier journals for each scientific field. Our members are highly collaborative and have a high capacity of attracting talent and training students.

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Encompassing PhD students, independent researchers, group leaders, scientific research support and research facility personnel (data at end 2019, obtained from 52 members).
48.4%
Out of 2,188 Postdocs, 1059 come from abroad (2019, 52 members)
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In international peer-reviewed journals (data from 2019, 53 members)
75.4%
Articles published in the top-25% (first quartile) ranked journals (data from 2019, obtained from 52 members)
661
Defended during 2019, with degrees issued by more than 30 different collaborating Universities (data from 52 members)
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SOMMa researchers contribute to international science with several collaborations, like all these EU collaborative projects (2019)