Professor Federico Frascoli

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

PhD topics and outlines

Collective properties of biological cells: Cell migration is a fundamental phenomenon throughout all the stages of animal life, from its commencement to its end. Cells may move as individuals, in several distinct ways, or may move collectively as chains, clusters or sheets. A variety of complex mechanisms govern these motions in contexts as different as embryonic morphogenesis, wound healing and cancer development.

Computational Nano-fluidics: This work deals with the fundamental problem of how one modifies the highly successful Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow at the nanometer length scale. Classical Navier-Stokes treatments break down at these length and time scales, and our group has been one of the most active and pioneering in generalising the Navier-Stokes treatment to make it valid at the nano-scale.

Mathematical models of tumor-immune dynamics: Recent advances have opened the possibility of treating some cancers by developing preventative vaccines. Such cancer vaccines would function by training a person¹s immune response to recognise and eliminate early-stage tumours close to inception. A challenge to designing cancer vaccines is understanding the tumour-immune dynamics that lead to successful tumour elimination.

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.