ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Career Acceleration Fellowship scheme
£38 million has been awarded to 46 researchers under the Leadership and Career Acceleration Fellowship scheme to help tackle the most pressing challenges facing the UK today. The fellowships will provide support to those with the greatest potential to become international research leaders; they will allow grant holders to dedicate themselves to their research areas and help fund costs. The remaining fellows will be published next week.
Award winner: A. Abdolvand
Institution: University of Dundee
Value: £843,799
Metal-glass nanocomposites through nanoengineering to application
Award winner: K. Bontcheva
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £591,754
Machine-learning methods for personalised, abstractive summarisation of consumer-generated media
Award winner: R. Briganti
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £563,181
Modelling coastal floods to support sustainable growth of coastal communities
Award winner: A.I. Coldea
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £1,171,399
Emergent phenomena in novel correlated materials
Award winner: C.M. Davies
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £589,859
Revealing and predicting the failure mechanisms in advanced materials for energy - enhancing life and efficiency
Award winner: A. Di Falco
Institution: University of St Andrews
Value: £674,985
METAFLEX - metamaterials on flexible optically transparent substrate
Award winner: A.M. Garcia
Institution: University of Cambridge
Value: £521,823
Search for novel mechanisms to increase the critical temperature of a superconductor
Award winner: J.H. Giansiracusa
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £432,648
Moduli spaces from a topological point of view
Award winner: A. Hammond
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £547,739
Constrained random geometries: phase-boundary fluctuation and sub-ballistic motion
Award winner: R.J.A. Hill
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £517,821
Diamagnetic levitation for studies of fluids and granules in weightless conditions and for interdisciplinary science
Award winner: I.A. Ieropoulos
Institution: University of the West of England
Value: £564,560
Waste made useful by microbial fuel cells for energy generation
Award winner: M. Klemm
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £743,121
Differential microwave imaging for advanced clinical applications
Award winner: M.K. Kuimova
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £1,173,882
Investigating cellular mechanisms and photodynamic therapy using molecular rotors
Award winner: D.A. MacLaren
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £1,037,162
Integrating advanced nanomaterials into transformative technologies
Award winner: S. Maffeis
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £591,978
Foundations of secure web programming
Award winner: A.E. Martinez
Institution: University of Glasgow
Value: £712,368
Quantum simulations of future solid-state transistors
Award winner: I. Mekhov
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £756,624
Quantum optics with ultracold quantum gases
Award winner: A. Morozov
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Value: £477,181
Purely elastic instabilities and turbulence in flows of polymer solutions
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Award winner: R.L. Jack
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £690,460
How fast does time flow? Dynamical behaviour in glasses, nanoscience and self-assembly
While many theories predict the manner in which living organisms age and die, there is presently no hypothesis to forecast the length of time the increase of disorder among cells may take. Dr Jack will use his career acceleration fellowship to investigate the flow of time, an essential aspect of the human experience. Considering three systems in which time flow is significant, Dr Jack will seek to develop a theory for the assembly and control of such structures, expanding upon fundamental theories in physics as well as providing practical insights in biology and nanotechnology.