"Consider the sea squirt. In its juvenile stage this simple animal has a well-defined though rudimentary brain, which it uses as it searches for an appealing rock or lump of coral on which to spend the rest of its life filter-feeding on whatever drifts by. Having found one and attached itself, it digests its own brain, retaining only a simple nervous system.
Some people have used the sea squirt as an analogy for an academic career, before and after finding a permanent university position."
A. Seth, Being You

• The nucleon-nucleon effective interaction. Nuclear Energy Density Functionals (EDFs) and link with ab initio nuclear theory.
• Nuclear collective states. The nuclear Equation of State (EoS): incompressibility, symmetry energy.
• Isospin symmetry in nuclei. Electromagnetic and weak processes. Astrophysical applications.
• Exotic nuclei. Particle-vibration coupling. Cross sections for inelastic excitations.
• Application of nuclear methods to electronic systems. Phonons and electron-phonon coupling.

I like to put here the link to an interesting post about
the "Pernicious Idea of Students as Customers".
Some may be more intrigued by advises to PhD students.

• Domestic Molecule Type Workshop "Fundamentals in density functional theory"
  9^th-20^th December, 2022
  YITP Kyoto (Japan).
• VI Topical Workshop on Modern Aspects in Nuclear Structure
  6^th-11^th February, 2022
  Bormio (Italia).