Five more STIMULATE fellows have defended their PhD thesis during the first three months of 2023: 

• Henri-Baptiste Marjault, thesis title: “The NEET proteins (mNT & MiNT) role in controlling Fe/Fe-S and ROS homeostasis in Health and Diseases” (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, The Cyprus Institute)
• Malak Diab, thesis title "Splitting Methods for Partial Differential-algebraic Systems with Application on Coupled Field-Circuit DAEs" (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, The Cyprus Institute)  
• Giovanni Iannelli, thesis title "Bayesian optimization of variational quantum eigensolvers" (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, University of Cyprus)
• Mostafa Khalil Nasr, thesis title "Multigrid Multilevel Monte Carlo Approaches for Trace Estimation in Lattice QCD" (Università degli Studi di Ferrara,  Bergische Universität Wuppertal, The Cyprus Institute)
• Madeleine Dale has completed her thesis defense in two (out of three) institutes and Ke Zuo's thesis defense is scheduled for August 2023.