The Phd in Computer Science (Dottorato di Ricerca in Informatica) offers a graduate programme at the highest International standards in the most important research areas of modern Computer Science. The Faculty includes top-notch professors with a strong record of scientific achievements: Six Google Faculty Awardees; three Google Focused Awardees; IBM Faculty Awardees; three ERC Grantees; Fulbright, Marie Curie and Sloan fellowship winners, among others. This record puts our Department and PhD program at the highest level in Europe and in the World. After completing the PhD programme, our graduate students will be able to conceive and develop an independent and strong research programme and will be ready to work and compete worldwide in the best universities and international research centres. In addition, the education focused on applied aspect of Computer Science will provide the student with the necessary knowledge to face with complex problems also of industrial nature and to manage and to develop innovative projects of systems at industrial level.