Topic: resource constraints

Develop risk-based inspection and maintenance planning for tunnels. Combine practitioner interviews with Bayesian risk models, value-of-information analysis and optimization of intervention programmes under access and resource constraints. Validate methods with partners at Hagerbach Test Gallery and EuroTube. Screening starts 9 November 2026; applications remain open until filled. Apply through the ETH online recruitment portal.

Being fundamentally a non-equilibrium process, synchronization comes with unavoidable energy costs and has to be maintained under the constraint of limited resources. Such resource constraints are often reflected as a finite coupling budget available in a network to facilitate interaction and communication. In this talk, I will show that introducing temporal variation in the network structure can lead to efficient synchronization even when stable synchrony is impossible in any static network under the given budget. Our strategy is based on an open-loop control scheme and alludes to a fundament