Support & Wellbeing
SISSA provides several confidential, free services for students, postdocs and staff. Contacts and eligibility are maintained centrally by the School — follow the links below for the current, official information.
Psychological counselling
Free, confidential counselling with the SISSA psychologists. For appointments write to sissacare@gmail.com.
Ombudspersons
Independent, neutral, confidential: for conflicts in the workplace, in the research group or with a supervisor — including disputes on the research project, academic integrity or personal relationships.
Confidential Counsellor
For issues of mobbing and sexual harassment in the work or study environment. The Counsellor is independent of SISSA and bound to confidentiality.
CUG — Committee for the Wellbeing
Oversees equal opportunity, wellbeing of personnel, and fights discrimination, bullying and harassment at SISSA. Maintains all the services above.
For issues specific to the student community, you can also reach out to the Student Council — in particular the CUG representative (Salvatore Di Marco) .