Type Public Campus Urban Acceptance rate 2% (2013) Province Province of Lucca Director Pietro Pietrini | Established 2004 Website imtlucca.it/ Phone +39 0583 432 6561 Founded 2004 Academic staff 45 | |
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Address Piazza S.Francesco, 19, 55100 Lucca LU, Italy Similar Sant'Anna School of Advance, Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Studi Pav, International School for Advance, University of Pisa Profiles | ||
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is a public research institution and a selective graduate school located in Lucca, Italy.
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IMT Lucca was founded in 2004 under the name IMT Institute for Advanced Studies. The acronym IMT stands for "Institutions, Markets, Technologies."
As an institute for advanced studies, IMT hosts researchers who carry out methodological research, held to high scientific standards, leading to the development of new knowledge. IMT's specially designed campus fosters the continual presence of visiting scholars that contribute to creating a stimulating and intellectually lively environment.
At the same time, IMT is also an institute of technology where numerous research projects are undertaken to apply cutting-edge scientific results to solve problems of economic, industrial, and societal interest. IMT's institutional role is also that of a graduate school where knowledge is transmitted to PhD students.
Although the school is relatively young, it has already attracted significant attention from national and international media. Its international advisory board includes a number of prominent scientists, including H. Eugene Stanley, Sanjoy K. Mitter and Gerard Roland.
In 2013, the school's division of economics (including the areas of political economy and statistics) came out first in the ranking of Italian economics departments.
In 2015, IMT Lucca was ranked as one of the top young research institutions in Europe by the EU's ranking U-Multirank.
In 2016, IMT Lucca once again confirmed its standing in the EU rankings, placing first among all the research universities in Italy, and third in Europe among research institutions established post-1980.
Academics
The multidisciplinary PhD program of IMT, integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. It offers a unique and characteristic patrimony of competences within the broad framework of the analysis and management of a plurality of systems. The three year program is articulated in curricula. The 8 curricula currently offered are field-specific, although in many instances they share a common scientific background. Candidates can apply for one (or more) of the following curricula:
IMT concentrates its activities within a limited number of key areas. Moreover, the Institute recruits its faculty on a competitive international scale, evaluating, among other elements, their capacity to publish work in top level international peer-reviewed and high-impact journals.
The pillars of the institute's research model are its thematic research units, highly specialized in a specific field, that often cooperate in interdisciplinary projects:
AXES - Laboratory for the Analysis of Complex Economic Systems
DYSCO - Dynamical Systems, Control, and Optimization
ICES - Institutional Change, Economics, Society
LIME - Laboratory of Innovation Management and Economics
LYNX - Center for the interdisciplinary Analysis of Images
MUSAM - Multi-scale Analysis of Materials
NETWORKS - Complex Networks
MOMILAB - Neuroscience
PRIAn - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
SysMA - System Modelling and Analysis
Selectivity
In 2016, the school received a record of 3747 applications for 34 places, a significant increase compared to 1880 applications in 2015. The high number of application is due to the growing prestige of the school and the simplicity of its application procedure.