ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Three research hubs to develop digital technology in UK universities have been announced. They will share £36 million from the EPSRC under the first phase of its digital economy programme. They will focus on the transport, creative industries and healthcare sectors, researching digital technologies that can help transform the way they operate.
Award winner: Tom Rodden
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £12 million
Developing business opportunities and transport
Award winner: Paul Watson
Institution: Newcastle University
Value: £12 million
New technology for social inclusion
THE NEWTON INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
The Newton International Fellows have been awarded grants of up to £68,000 by the national academies to work at UK research institutions for two years. Following on from last week, here are some more of the 51 winners.
Award winner: Jing Chen
Institution: University of Cambridge
Improving the intelligibility of speech in noise and competing speech for the hearing impaired
Award winner: Javier Carrasco
Institution: University College London
Towards a first-principles understanding of heterogeneous ice nucleation on the nanoscale
Award winner: Elena del Valle
Institution: University of Southampton
Quantum information processing with Bose-Einstein condensates of microcavity polaritons
Award winner: Sheila Wang
Institution: University of Cambridge
Elucidating the structure of an inhibitor-bound proteasome complex by mass spectrometry
Award winner: Tamas Nepusz
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Overlapping community detection methods for biological applications
Award winner: Pedro Lacerda
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Extreme objects in the outer solar system
Award winner: Jie Wang
Institution: Durham University
Simulating the structure formation of the Milky Way
Award winner: Yvonne Peters
Institution: University of Manchester
The top quark as window to new physics
Award winner: Simona Irrera
Institution: University College London
Molecular modelling of DNA/RNA bases on metal surfaces
Award winner: Luis-Miguel Chevin
Institution: Imperial College London
Adaptation and persistence of fragmented populations in a changing environment
Award winner: Emiliano Merlo
Institution: University of Cambridge
The molecular switch underlying the transition between reconsolidation and extinction of fear memory
Award winner: Martha Nari Havenith
Institution: University College London
A causal role for oscillations in cortical sensory processing? A direct test
Award winner: Mor Salomon-Botner
Institution: Lancaster University
Catering to omnivore nutrition as a tool to optimise biological pest control
Award winner: Neel Dhruv
Institution: University College London
Quantitative analysis of cortical response dependence on network activity
Award winner: Folarin Oguntoyinbo
Institution: Institute of Food Research
Identification of multifunctional lactic acid bacteria for use as probiotic starter cultures during fermented cereal-based food production
Award winner: German Tischler
Institution: King's College London
Indexing texts for approximate searches
Award winner: Ruth Martinez-Casado
Institution: Imperial College London
He-atom diffraction on metal-oxide surfaces from first principles
More Newton International Fellowship winners
Award winner: Uchechukwu Vincent
Institution: University of Lancaster
Synchronisation and transport control in ensemble of globally coupled ratchets
Award winner: Marianna D’Arco
Institution: University College London
Study of the molecular basis of alpha2delta-1 up-regulation in DRG neurons
Award winner: Stefan Pulver
Institution: University of Cambridge
Neural circuits and behaviour in drosophila larvae
Award winner: Valentina Caorsi
Institution: Imperial College London
Myosin head movement in contracting muscle fibres detected by Förster resonance energy transfer
Award winner: Araceli Grande-Garcia
Institution: Cancer Research UK (LRI & clinical units)
The origin and role of carcinoma-associated fibroblasts in breast cancer
Award winner: Ali Naji
Institution: University of Sheffield
Electrostatics of strongly coupled charged soft matter
Award winner: Nadine Becker
Institution: University of Bristol
Co-ordinated cortical and hippocampal activity during cognition and sleep
Award winner: Neeraj Rastogi
Institution: University of East Anglia
Soluble iron in marine atmospheric aerosols
Award winner: Chiara Franceschini
Institution: School of Advanced Study
On the edges: the unchristened dead and their fate in the Western tradition
Award winner: Fiona McBryde
Institution: University of Bristol
Brainstem leukotriene B4 as a mediator of neurogenic hypertension
IN DETAIL
Award winner: John Farrington
Institution: University of Aberdeen
Value: £12 million
Transforming rural economies
Aberdeen's research hub will focus on aspects of rural life that could be revolutionised by digital technologies. Looking at issues such as access to broadband, public transport and health, scientists will work in remote parts of the UK to develop solutions that could be introduced nationally. The hub will work with potential users and organisations to find technologies that could improve rural provision.