Welcome to
the Department of Life Sciences

The Department of Life Sciences (DSV) has been established in 2008 by the merging of four preexisting Departments: Biochemistry, Biophysics and Macromolecular Chemistry, Biology, Physiology and Pathology, and Biomedical Sciences. This nucleus has been joined in 2012 by the Department of Psychology.
The research and teaching activities conducted span levels of complexity ranging from molecules, to cells and tissues of organisms, to their interaction with the environment, to the study of the brain/mind interactions.
The areas of interests and direct actions are Biomedicine, Environmental Biology, and Psychology. In these fields, the Department of Life Sciences hosts excellent scientists internationally recognized for their activities in basic and applied research.