The 2024 Reinhart-Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award
The prize committee have decided to award Dr Simon Syga (PhD from TU Dresden) with the 2024 Reinhart Heinrich Doctoral Thesis award.
Motivation: Dr Syga develops and analyses a cellular automaton model for individual cell behavior, using non-trivial mathematics, to increase the understanding about how genetic mutation and phenotypic adaptation affect the occurrence of cancer and its possible reoccurrence after treatment.
Prize Committee: Tom Britton (chair), Helen Byrne, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Josep Sardanyes and Jana Wolf.
2024
Simon Syga (PhD from TU Dresden, Germany)
Thesis title: Impacts of genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity on tumor evolution: Mathematical modeling and analysis
2023
Kishori Hari (Indian Institute of Sciences, India)
Thesis title: Design Principles of Phenotypic Robustness and Plasticity in Gene Regulatory Networks underlying Cancer Metastasis
2022
James Holehouse (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Model reduction, mechanistic modelling and transience in models of stochastic chemical kinetics
2021
Martina Conte (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Thesis title: Mathematical models for glioma growth and migration inside the brain
2020
Lukas Eigentler (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Modelling dryland vegetation patterns: nonlocal dispersal, temporal variability in precipitation and species coexistence
2019
Lisa Maria Kreusser (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Anisotropic nonlinear PDE models and dynamical systems in biology
2018
Daniel Nichol (University College Oxford, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Understanding drug resistance through computational models of the genotype-phenotype mapping
2017
Jochen Kursawe (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Quantitative Approaches to investigating epithelial morphogenesis
2016
Stilianos Louca (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Thesis title: The ecology of microbial metabolic pathways
2015
Linus J. Schumacher (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: A mathematical exploration of principles of collective cell migration and self-organisation
2014
Aurélie Carlier (KU Leuven, Netherlands)
Thesis title: Multiscale modelling of angiogenesis during normal and impaired bone regeneration
Juan Carlos López Alfonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Thesis title: Modeling and optimization of radiotherapy treatment plans
2013
Andreas Raue (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Thesis title: Quantitative Dynamic Modeling: Theory and Application to Signal Transduction in the Erythropoietic System
2012
Christoforos C. Hadjichrysanthou (City University London, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Evolutionary models in structures populations
2011
Sebastian Höhme (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Thesis title: Agent-based modeling of growing cell populations and the regenerating liver based on image processing
2010
Tina Toni (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Thesis title: Approximate Bayesian computation for parameter inference and model selection in systems biology
2009
Stefan Legewie (HU Berlin, Germany)
Thesis title: Systems biological analyses of intracellular signal transduction
Max Wolf (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Thesis title: Adaptive individual differences: The evolution of animal personality
2008
Thomas Maiwald (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Thesis title: Dynamical Modeling of Biological Systems
2007
Barbara Boldin (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Thesis title: Mathematical aspects of infectious disease dynamics
Antonio Politi (HU Berlin, Germany)
Thesis title: Systems Biology Perspectives on Calcium Signaling and DNA Repair