Extra-Curricular Internship - Zuccolo Group
Pubblicato il 29-08-2026 - Human Technopole in Milano
Build the science that shapes the future of human health.
Application closing date: 10.09.2026
Join a place where ambitious science thrives
Human Technopole (Milan) is a rapidly expanding life science institute where international researchers and cutting-edge technologies converge to accelerate biomedical discovery. Our mission is to transform bold scientific ideas into advances that improve human health.
About The Group The Zuccolo group studies maternal and child health through epidemiology, statistics, and data science, focusing on understanding health trends, risk factors, and the intergenerational effects of family and parent-offspring relationships on health and wellbeing.
Internship Project Description
We are seeking a motivated intern to join our team and contribute to advancing research on women’s health. Building on ongoing projects, you will assist in performing advanced statistical modelling to explore emerging scientific questions including: safety of drug use in pregnancy; drivers and consequences of discontinuation around pregnancy; mediation and composite-phenotype models for the determination of climate extreme impacts or multiple joint exposures.
Grow Your Skills
You will enhance your scientific and professional skills by:
- Reviewing literature and extracting data from publicly available sources
- Handling large-scale data from administrative data sources
- Computing estimates of disease burden
- Defining analytical protocols and pipelines
- Completing advanced statistical modelling
- Producing data visualisations and project reports.
Human Technopole supports career development through training, mentoring and dedicated learning opportunities.
Essential
What you'll bring
- MSc in epidemiology or biostatistics or related subject.
- Excellent knowledge of programming language (R or Python).
- Proven experience of analysing large scale data for population health science projects.
- Experience of advanced mathematical/statistical modelling in medicine and/or public health.
Organizational and social skills
- Excellent communication and team working skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and to work independently.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic environment with sensitivity and respect for diversity.
At HT, your discoveries contribute to a global effort to improve human health.
Why Human Technopole HT offers an international and dynamic workplace, flexible working policies, relocation support and promotes work–life balance.
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How to apply
- CV
- Motivation letter (English)
Number of positions offered: 1
This is a 6 months extra-curricular internship. The internship will start in November 2026.
Reimbursement: 800€ gross per month The position is based in Milan, Italy, within our vibrant international campus.
We strongly encourage applications from candidates belonging to protected categories (L. 68/99).
The Foundation reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to extend, suspend, modify, revoke, or cancel this job posting without giving rise to any rights or claims whatsoever in favor of the candidates; the Foundation reserves, however, the right not to proceed with the awarding of the above-described assignment due to the effect of supervening regulatory provisions and/or obstructive circumstances.