The course offer of the ROSE PhD Programme includes different types of courses: 1. Specific PhD level courses; 2. Horizontal interdisciplinary courses, organised by the Doctoral School at IUSS; 3. Advanced Master courses, shared with the MSc CivRisk, ROSE path; and 4. High-level undergraduate courses from the undergraduate academic offer at IUSS. 

1. Doctoral Earthquake Engineering courses:

• Experimental Assessment & Numerical Modeling of Seismically Isolated Structural Systems (13/10/2025-24/10/2025)
• Research based innovation (24/11/2025-03/12/2025)
• Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (14/01/2026-29/01/2026)
• Propagation of Mechanical Waves in Deformable Solids (15/01/2026-06/03/2026)
• Introduction to Discrete Element Modelling for Structural Analysis (02/02/2026-11/02/2026)
• Fundamentals of Probability Theory (16/02/2026-27/02/2026)
• Beyond Seismic Safety - Sustainable Retrofit Design (23/02/2026-06/03/2026)
• Dynamic Analysis of Structures (13/04/2026-24/04/2026)
• Seismic Design of Steel Structures (13/07/2026-24/07/2026)
• GEM Models, OpenQuake Engine and Tools Training: Vulnerability Modelling (July 2026)
• Seismic Assessment of Masonry Structures (07/09/2026-18/09/2026)
   

2. Doctoral Horizontal courses and seminars: available here.

    

3. Shared MSc CivRisk - Reduction of Seismic Risk courses:

• Dynamics of Structures (22/09/2025-21/10/2025)
• Risk Assessment and Loss Estimation (24/09/2025-20/10/2025)
• Applied Mathematics (23/09/2025-16/01/2026)
• Reinforced Concrete Structures (22/10/2025-19/11/2025)
• Steel Structures (27/10/2025-20/11/2025)
• Bridge Structures (20/11/2025-19/12/2025)
• Computational Mechanics (20/11/2025-19/12/2025)
• Probability and Statistics for Engineering Applications (07/01/2026-30/01/2026)
• Masonry Structures (07/01/2026-02/02/2026)
• Seismic Isolation and Dissipation (03/02/2026-28/02/2026)
• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (04/03/2026-19/06/2026)
• Seismic Hazard and Engineering Seismology (02/03/2026-24/03/2026)
• Foundation Engineering and Earth Retaining Structures (13/04/2026-05/05/2026)
• Nonlinear Response Analysis (07/05/2026-09/06/2026)
• Fundamentals of Seismic Design (11/06/2026-10/07/2026)

4. Shared Undergraduate Courses:

• Computational methods for biostatistics (first semester: 01/10/2025-28/02/2026)
• Machine Learning for Imaging Data (first semester: 01/10/2025-28/02/2026)
• Laboratory of machine learning for the empirical sciences (first semester: 01/10/2025-28/02/2026)
• Statistical and probabilistic methods for engineering applications (second semester: 01/03/2026- 30/09/2026)
• Understanding Catastrophe Risk: Modelling, Management, and Reinsurance (second semester: 01/03/2026-30/09/2026)
• Modelling and control of large interacting systems: emerging phenomena and data-oriented approaches (second semester: 01/03/2026-30/09/2026)