The Doctoral Training Unit CriTiCS encompasses the following 11 individual PhD projects. The names of the PhD supervisors are listed in brackets. Potential candidates should have a background (having or being about to obtain a master degree) in one of the target disciplines listed for each topic, or a related field.
Theoretical Projects:
- Classification and detection of critical transitions (Daniele Proverbio, PhD supervisor: Jorge Goncalves)
- Early detection of heart attacks and atrial fibrillations (Marino Gavidia, PhD supervisor: Jorge Goncalves)
- Predicting financial crashes by time-series analysis (Vladimir Levin, PhD supervisors: Roman Kräussl, Jorge Goncalves)
- Developing a distribution biology framework to study cell-fate dynamics (Silvia Martina, PhD supervisor: Alexander Skupin)
- Non equilibria thermodynamics (Tommaso Cossetto, PhD supervisor: Massimiliano Esposito)
Experimental Projects:
- Single-cell omics data to characterise disease dynamics (Michela Bernini, PhD supervisor: Alexander Skupin)
- The role of the mitochondrial genome in neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s Disease (Katja Badanjak, PhD supervisor: Anne Grünewald)
- Understanding transitions from healthy skin to melanoma cancer cells (Tijana Randic, PhD supervisor: Stephanie Kreis)
- Characterisation of seizure dynamics in zebrafish to investigate critical transitions in epilepsyin (Alice Oldano, PhD supervisor: Alexander Skupin with Alexander Crawford)
- Transitions in microbial ecosystems (Susana Martinez Arbas, PhD supervisor: Paul Wilmes)
- Critical Transitions in immunology (Christophe Chapelle, PhD supervisor: Feng He)