| Academic Year | 2018-2019 |
|---|---|
| Subject area | Biological, Geological and Agricultural Sciences |
| Cycle | 34° |
| Coordinator | Prof. Stefano Goffredo |
| Language | English, Italian |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Positions | 7 positions with scholarship |
| Application deadline | May 14, 2018 at 01:00 PM (Expired) |
| Final ranking list | Final ranking list available on Studenti Online |
| Enrolment period | From Jul 05, 2018 to Jul 15, 2018 |
| Doctoral programme start date | Nov 01, 2018 |
- Operating centre
- Fano (PU)
- Main Department
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Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences - BiGeA
- Associated Departments
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Department of Chemistry "Giacomo Ciamician" - CHIMDepartment of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering - DICAMDepartment of Veterinary Medical Sciences - DIMEVETDepartment of Pharmacy and Biotechnology - FaBiTDepartment of Cultural Heritage - DBCDepartment of Agricultural and Food Sciences - DISTAL
- Doctoral Programme in collaboration with research institutions (art. 2, comma 2, lett. a) del D.M. n. 45/2013)
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR
- Mobility abroad
- Yes (3 months)
- Research topics
- Marine microbial metagenomes: study of microbial metagenomes from marine organisms (holobionts) and environments as indicators of ecosystems and organism health and functionalities;
- Marine environment: relationship between environment and organisms; autecology and synecology, biological cycles of the species being harvested, and food webs;
- Modeling gene regulation, biomineralization, growth, and population dynamics in marine calcifiers and fish species;
- Genomic methods and life history traits as tools for fisheries management;
- Fishery stock assessment methods;
- Fishing innovative techniques and Technologies;
- Marine microbial food webs, and food security;
- Influence of contaminants (chemical and microbiological) on reproductive cycles, on food quality and on human biodiversity;
- Bioremediation of impacted marine ecosystems (surface and subsurface water and sediments);
- Aquaculture, restocking and relative environmental impact;
- Human genetic variability of genes and pathways involved in lipid metabolism across Italy and the Mediterranean area: a focus on genetics, nutrition and health;
- Natural resources and environmental economics;
- Fisheries economics, product marketing and fishery chain;
- Protection of the environment and resources: legal bases, organizational, and innovative elements and tools for ecosystem-based fishery management;
- Community legislation on fisheries, national rules in the Mediterranean countries and EUSAIR;
- International Fisheries Organizations operating in the Mediterranean: objectives and functioning;
- Sustainable exploitation of marine bio-resources (microbes, biomass and fish processing by-products and wastes);
- Citizen Science: communication, involvement of volunteers, large-scale spatial and temporal monitoring, dissemination, environmental education.
- Job opportunities and potential areas of employment
- Oceans are drivers for the economy and have great potential for innovation and growth. The 'blue' economy represents roughly 5.4 million jobs and generates a gross added value of almost €500 billion a year. Blue Growth is the long-term strategy of the European Union to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors as a whole. The strategy focuses on sectors where there is a high potential for sustainable jobs and growth (e.g., aquaculture, coastal tourism, marine biotechnology, and environmental management) which are closely related to FishMed-PhD. FishMed-PhD students will acquire expertise that are applicable in different professions linked to environmental consultancy and management, socioeconomic risk assessment, and public engagement. In the short-term (throughout the PhD programme), PhD students will be capable of selecting specific socioeconomic indicators linked to changes in marine environments to perform sustainable analyses of the implications of these changes for private and public decision makers. PhD students will have the opportunity to participate in workshops and conferences at early stages of their scientific careers and thus help them gain international recognition and provide networking and career opportunities in both the private and public sectors. In the long-term (after the PhD programme), FishMed-PhD researchers will be European leaders and experts in marine environmental monitoring capable of quantifying and valuing impacts and vulnerabilities by taking into account the interdependencies between ecosystems and social and economic systems.
- Admission Board
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Surname Name Institution Role e-mail Candela Marco Università di Bologna member marco.candela@unibo.it Falini Giuseppe Università di Bologna member giuseppe.falini@unibo.it La Mesa Mario CNR - ISMAR member mario.lamesa@an.ismar.cnr.it Lucchetti Alessandro CNR - ISMAR member a.lucchetti@ismar.cnr.it Luiselli Donata Università di Bologna member donata.luiselli@unibo.it Boattini Alessio (substitutes Donata Luiselli at the oral examination) Università di Bologna substitute alessio.boattini2@unibo.it Fiorentino Fabio CNR - IAMC substitute fabio.fiorentino@iamc.cnr.it Goffredo Stefano Università di Bologna substitute s.goffredo@unibo.it Luna Gian Marco (substitutes Alessandro Lucchetti at the oral examination) CNR - ISMAR substitute gianmarco.luna@ve.ismar.cnr.it Somarakis Stylianos Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece) substitute somarak@hcmr.gr Zanaroli Giulio (substitutes Giuseppe Falini at the oral examination) Università di Bologna substitute giulio.zanaroli@unibo.it
- Learning outcomes
- Despite the fact that the fisheries issue is one of the priorities of the European agenda, fishing has never been supported by high level education. FishMed-PhD will focus on Mediterranean fisheries, both in terms of understanding the impact that fishing pressure can have on ecosystems, but also how fisheries are interconnected with the marine environment and are themselves impacted by other drivers of change (e.g., climate change, alien species). FishMed-PhD will train a new generation of managers, not only on innovative technologies and on the biology of the harvested species, but also on the importance of limiting the ecological impacts while maintaining the economic performance. Students will carry out interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art research and complement their training through specialized courses. The students will also learn to implement environmental awareness and to effectively deliver scientific knowledge to policy makers, and the general public.
- Activities to be carried out by Doctoral candidates
- Individual PhD research projects will merge the limited available knowledge with new insights generated by FishMed-PhD to assess fishery and ecosystem status and integrate this knowledge into a wider policy and social matrix of transparent and usable outputs that are urgently needed by policymakers, managers, and stakeholders. FishMed-PhD program will combine interdisciplinary approaches in novel ways, envisaging four research work packages. WP1: Organism Biology & Physiology. Students will investigate ecosystem responses to drivers of change (e.g climate change) using a multi-scale approach from organism to population scales, by conducting studies (molecular, physiological, macroscopic growth) under controlled conditions and in situ. WP2: Environmental Monitoring & Conservation. Students will use remote sensing, species distribution modelling, and citizen science approaches to assess Mediterranean Sea biodiversity status and stressors. Moreover, students will learn to assess hydrocarbon pollution and state-of-the-art bioremediation techniques, and to investigate the impact of microplastics on Mediterranean ecosystems. WP3: Ecosystem & Socioeconomic Modelling. Students will use physiological and autoecological descriptors, as well as long-term robust time-series analysis to simulate alternative environments and human use scenarios (e.g., fishery regulations, coastal development) in an ecosystem model. This model will be coupled with ecosystem services (e.g. fisheries, tourism, ecosystem resilience), to evaluate the ecological and socioeconomic impacts of the different scenarios. WP 4: Risks Assessment & Integration Into Policy and Society. Students will investigate the interactions among economic activities, and assess risks to ecosystem services. Students will contribute to decision support tools that can help policymakers choose the most sustainable scenarios and communicate the impact of these scenarios to different stakeholders and the public at large.
- Research training activities compliant with the Doctoral programme's learning outcomes
- Course Unit Title / Provider / Number of hours.
First Year:
- Bacterial metagenomics of marine environments / Marco Candela / 8 hours
- Calcium carbonate biomineralisation and system Earth; origin, evolution and diagenetic processes / Frédéric Marin / 8 hours
- Biomineralization and Physiology / Tali Mass / 8 hours
- Environmental Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy / Giovanni Valdrè / 8 hours
- Growth and population dynamics models / Stefano Goffredo / 8 hours
- Introduction to computational biology / Jaap Kaandorp / 10 hours
- High-Throughput Sequencing; Methods and Data Analysis / Fabrizio Ghiselli / 10 hours
- Life history traits of Mediterranean fish fauna as a useful tool for fisheries management / Mario La Mesa / 8 hours.
Second Year:
- Inter-annual and inter-decadal fluctuations of fish populations / Stylianos Somarakis / 8 hours
- Sustainable fishing technology / Alessandro Lucchetti / 10 hours
- Safety of fish and fisheries products, microbial food webs, and teleost microbiome / Gian Marco Luna / 10 hours
- Diffusion of chemical contaminants in Mediterranean Sea and influence on fish food quality / Mauro Marini / 8 hours
- Bioremediation and Exploitation of marine bio-resources / Giulio Zanaroli / 8 hours
- Mediterranean algal mariculture potential under global climate change / Zvy Dubinsky / 8 hours.
Third Year:
- Human population dynamics in traditional fishing communities; a focus on genetics, nutrition and health / Donata Luiselli / 8 hours
- Blue Growth and ecosystem services/Giulio Malorgio/8 hours
- Valorization of fish and mariculture waste materials / Giuseppe Falini / 6 hours
- Principles of fisheries economics and politics / Felice Adinolfi / 10 hours
- Recreative fisheries / Beatriz Morales Nin / 8 hours
- Marine Living Resources – with special emphasis on the Adriatic Sea / Jakov Dulcic / 10 hours
- Indicators for sustainable fisheries / Fabio Fiorentino / 8 hours. - Internationalization features
- FishMed-PhD programme is international. Its Academic Board will include at least 25% of professors and recognized experts in the field of fisheries, ichthyology, food web dynamics, modeling and simulation of biological systems, from different international institutions: Bar-Ilan University (Israel), Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (Croatia), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), the National Center for Scientific Research (France), the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (Spain), the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece), and University of Haifa (Israel).
The selection process will consider broad candidate expertise, including technical/scientific experience, scientific publications, participation in scientific meetings, university courses/grades, and reference letters. Fellowships will be widely advertised. High-profile young graduates will be selected through network boosting employability in the Mediterranean region. In addition to Euraxess, open positions will be published on specific websites enhancing the development of employability in southern Mediterranean countries (e.g., RESUME, HOMERe - High Opportunity for Mediterranean Executives Recruitment).
FishMed-PhD program envisages a mandatory abroad research period of at least three months, to broaden the student’s knowledge of the existing realities and ways of managing marine biological resources. - Expected research results and products
- Training and research performance of FishMed-PhD students will be monitored by supervisors who will ensure that fellows obtain sufficient intersectoral/iterdisciplinary skills to increase employability, as well as research skills. The supervisors will report/advise students during both training and research activities envisaged in the FishMed-PhD programme. At the end of the first year, the student’s participation in training activities and the experimental design and methodology to be applied during their research project will be evaluated. At the end of the second year, students will provide an overview of training and research activities conducted in the previous 24 months, showing preliminary results and statistical analysis. At the end of the third year, to be admitted to the PhD defence, students must have: i) at least two publications in IF journals, of which one as first author, ii) participated in at least one international conference, iii) performed a period abroad of at least three months, iv) completed a final draft of the PhD thesis and of a 30 minutes oral presentation. These mandatory criteria will be evaluated by the FishMed-PhD Committee and after approval, the students will be admitted to the PhD defence.
- Doctoral programme Academic Board
Surname Name University/Institution Qualification ADINOLFI FELICE Università di Bologna Professore Associato CANDELA MARCO Università di Bologna Professore Associato DUBINSKY ZVY Bar-Ilan University Professore di Univ.Straniera DULCIC JAKOV Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Ricercatore Ente FALINI GIUSEPPE Bologna Professore Associato FIORENTINO FABIO CNR Ricercatore Ente GHISELLI FABRIZIO Università di Bologna Ricercatore a tempo determinato GOFFREDO STEFANO Università di Bologna Professore Associato KAANDORP JAAP University of Amsterdam Professore di Univ.Straniera LA MESA MARIO CNR Ricercatore Ente LUCCHETTI ALESSANDRO CNR Ricercatore Ente LUISELLI DONATA Università di Bologna Professore Associato LUNA GIAN MARCO CNR Ricercatore Ente MALORGIO GIULIO Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario MARIN FRÉDERIC Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Professore di Univ.Straniera MARINI MAURO CNR Ricercatore Ente MASS TALI University of Haifa Ricercatore di Univ.Straniera MORALES NIN BEATRIZ Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados Professore di Univ.Straniera SOMARAKIS STYLIANOS Hellenic Centre for Marine Research Ricercatore Ente VALDRE' GIOVANNI Università di Bologna Professore Ordinario ZANAROLI GIULIO Università di Bologna Professore Associato
See also
- AMS phD thesis (in Italian) Published
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