Dear all this email is just to inform you all that the call for 2 PhD positions on marine mammal medicine have been opened and it will close on May 14th. The two candidates will be involved in developing new technologies as machine learning and virtual/augmented reality to represent and study  cetaceans' anatomy, physiology and pathology to some specific tissues and organs, in particular to the brain and the understanding acoustic pathways under the supervision of myself (Sandro Mazzariol) and Prof. Bruno Cozzi from Padua University. Selected candidates will be in touch with also with all the researches ongoing in our Department as well as with necropsies on marine mammals and sea turtles perforemd in our Department. You can find the call in English at https://www.unipd.it/en/research/doctoral-degrees-phd-programmes/phd-program... Select the PhD Course in Veterinary Sciences (n. 41, the last one) and look for scholarships funded by the Project ECCE AQUA - Dept of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Sciences (Research Topic in "New technologies and augmented reality in the study of marine vertebrates medicine" and " Tissues images analyses by using big data management and evaluation"). If you need further information please don't exitate to contact me. Best wishes Sandro Mazzariol -- Prof. Sandro Mazzariol, DVM, PhD Dipartimento di Biomedicina Comparata e Alimentazione (BCA) - Università degli Studi di Padova Cetaceans strandings Emergency Response Team (CERT) Centro Interuniversitario per la Ricerca sui CEtacei (CIRCE) AGRIPOLIS - Ed. Museo Viale dell'Università 16 35020 - Legnaro (PD) tel.: +39 049 827 2963 fax: +39 049 827 2973 skype: smazzariol