拉夫堡大学在研究强度（REF2014）方面是英格兰排名前十的大学，并且有资格提交给REF的拉夫堡学术人员中有66％的杰出工作被评为“世界领先”。 €™或“国际一流”，相比之下，全国平均水平为43％。<br>项目详细信息：网络物理系统和虚拟样机的发展比以往任何时候都更加依赖CAD模型。尽管许多项目旨在提高CAD模型的质量，但我们也认为以最佳效率对零件进行建模至关重要。<br>我们目前的研究继续识别和量化工业参数CAD模型中的低效率。博士学位将与这项研究相辅相成，并将专注于数据采集和处理。它将成为通往工业应用
Global warming, and the related increase in extreme heat events, is now the greatest threat to our survival. Patients affected by chronic illness (e.g. neurodegenerative diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis) are the most vulnerable to the heat. Yet, we still understand very little about what drives vulnerability to the heat at the level of the individual neurological patient, due to a broad individual variability in heat responses within and between heat-vulnerable conditions. The impact of heat stress on vulnerable groups and health services is already significant and projected to increase, with an estimated global direct damage cost to health of USD 3 billion/year by 2030. If we do not develop a better understanding of what drives heat sensitivity at a patient level, along with ways to predict and mitigate heat vulnerability effectively, the burden on people and pressure on health services will inevitably increase. The aim of this PhD project is to investigate the independent and interactive role of the perceptual, physiological, and neuroanatomical mechanisms that predispose individuals to heat vulnerability, and how their relative contribution translates in different degrees of heat vulnerability amongst patients. With this PhD project, the prospective student will focus on investigating the impact of heat stress in the common and particularly heat-vulnerable neurodegenerative disease Multiple Sclerosis (MS). This will be achieved by performing in vivo heat stress experiments involving heat sensitive patients and healthy control individuals.