There is an opening (autumn 2010) for a student with a strong academic background to pursue a PhD within the Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB, http://grib.imim.es) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in the Barcelona Research Park of Biomedicine (PRBB, http://www.prbb.org).
Project Title: “Preventing wide-area blackouts through adaptive islanding of transmission networks” Description: Commercial pressures towards better utilisation of power networks and increased penetration of distributed generation are likely to reduce power system security margins leading to a higher probability of blackouts. This project will investigate an idea of preventing an imminent wide-area blackout by intentional [...]
Project Outline: China’s emerging role in global health governance: Navigating between access to medicines and economic development This study aims to investigate Chinese contributions to global health governance (GHG) with a particular focus on the global governance of access to medicines. The country’s rapid economic growth since the 1980s has led to growing debates about [...]
