The 2025 Reinhart-Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award
The prize committee has decided to give this year’s Reinhart-Heinrich Doctoral Thesis Award to
Carles Falcó (University of Oxford)
for his thesis Interactions and dynamics in collective cell behaviour.
Motivation: In his thesis, Carles Falcó combines sophisticated mathematics with experimentally validated modelling to increase our understanding of collective cell behaviour.
The prize committee, consisting of Tom Britton (chair), Mirjam Kretzschmar, Kevin Painter, Noemi Picco and Jana Wolf, was very impressed by the high standard of the thesis nominations this year.
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