TREAD offers 11 PhD projects that will be accomplished by exposing the recruited DCs to trans-disciplinary dimension, i.e. earthquake geology and hazard assessments, geomechanics, and insurance and decision-making domains.
Each DC will have a Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) that will be defined with their Supervisors. Each DC will develop an individual project, through integrated scientific approaches based on solving scientific problems in seismic hazard. This procedure will help DCs to develop their scientific ethics and critical minds. Moreover, with the presentation of their research at international conferences, in peer-reviewed international journals, and during outreach activities and mandatory TREAD meetings, DCs will develop their communication skills and gain their independence. Their training will be done at several levels: (i) immersion in the scientific and technical environments of each participant recruiting or hosting for secondments; (ii) benefiting from advanced courses available at academic partners accessible to each DC, to which they will attend, in agreement with their supervisors; (iii) network workshops and training schools to complete their exposure to the three scientific fields and three paths of the TREAD project. The overall timeline of the training is shown in this Figure.
- Project #1: Earthquake timing in complex fault zones: new approaches in paleoseismology Main Supervisor: Maria Ortuno (UB) – Co-Supervisor: Lucilla Benedetti (CNRS-CEREGE)
- Project #2: Combining InSAR and seismo-thermo-mechanical models to understand earthquake sequences in complex fault system Main Supervisor: Erwan Pathier (UGA) – Co-Supervisor: Ylona Van Dinther (UU), Anne Socquet (UGA)
- Project #3: The seismic signatures of aseismic processes with deep learning powered monitoring Main Supervisor: Men-Andrin Meier (ETH Zurich) – Co-Supervisor: David Marsan (UGA)
- Project #4: Linking fault damage zone mechanical and geometrical characteristics with fault seismic history Main Supervisor: Lucilla Benedetti (CEREGE – CNRS) – Co-Supervisor: Giulio Di Toro (UNIPD)
- Project #5: Flow to friction transition and back in carbonate rocks Main Supervisor: André Niemeijer (UU), Giulio Di Toro (UNIPD) – Co-Supervisor: Hans de Bresser (UU), Telemaco Tesei (UNIPD)
- Project #6: Formation of fault damage zones in carbonates and their role in the seismic cycle Main Supervisor: Giulio Di Toro (UNIPD), Alice Gabriel (LMU) – Co-Supervisor: Faccenda (UNIPD)
- Project #7: How tectonics affects seismic hazard parameters in complex continental settings Main Supervisor: Giulio Di Toro (UNIPD), Alice Gabriel (LMU) – Co-Supervisor: Faccenda (UNIPD)
- Project #8: Integrating physics-based earthquake rupture models in seismic hazard assessments Main Supervisor: Alice-Agnes Gabriel (LMU) – Co-Supervisor: Sebastien Hok and Oona Scotti (IRSN), Yann Klinger (IPGP)
- Project #9: Modelling synthetic catalogues of earthquake ruptures in complex interacting fault systems Main Supervisor: Bruno Pace (Ud’A) – Co-Supervisor: Alessandro Verdecchia (RUB), Laura Peruzza (OGS), Francesco Visini (INGV)
- Project #10: Modelling distributed seismicity using innovative approaches Main Supervisor: Marco Pagani (GEM) – Co-Supervisor: C. Beauval, A. Soquet, D. Marsan (UGA), F. Agliardi (UNIMIB)
- Project #11: Assessment of the impact of advanced seismic hazard modelling approaches in earthquake risk Main Supervisor: Vitor Silva (GEM) – Co-Supervisor: Bruno Pace (Ud’A)