Faculty of Science

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Luis Silva

I am interested in disease ecology and the interplay between immunity evolution and other life-history traits.
My past research explored how the population structure of hosts and parasites, along with their varying strategies for infection and defense, influences the evolution of virulence and transmission dynamics.
Currently, I am focused on understanding the mechanistic basis of host heterogeneity in parasite transmission, such as superspreading events, and how this variability impacts the long-term evolution of parasites and virulence.

Ashutosh Singh

Crystal growth of novel intermetallic quantum materials using a range of crystal growth methods, including the metal-flux method.
Structural and magnetic characterization, with lab techniques such as  X‐ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, transport properties, and Neutron based various diffraction techniques