PhD Students
Vinod Joseph Kannankeril
39th cycle
Vinod Joseph is a PhD student at the Department of Statistics, University of Bologna and the Laboratory of Digital and Computational Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) in Germany. His research focuses on assessing the impact of climate change on demographic behavior. Prior to joining Unibo, Vinod was a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He received his Master's and MPhil in Biostatistics and Demography from IIPS, Mumbai and his Bachelor's in Computer Applications from Sacred Heart College, Kochi. Vinod's research interests lie in the areas of population and environment, formal demography and population ageing.
Viviana Schisa
38th cycle
Viviana Schisa is a PhD student focused on the analysis of the impact of environmental and social trends on the Life Science Industry with a particular focus on the study of the impact of climate change and postCovid recovery on the evolution of population medical needs.
After her master's degree, she held a research scholarship at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II related to PRIN 2017 “Mezzorgiorno 2.0: politiche regionali, istituzioni e coesione” based on the application of Social Network Analysis techniques.
