Last week, the EPSRC announced the 43 successful researchers who have been awarded fellowships totalling £36M to “help develop their potential as the next generation of world-leading scientists and engineers.”
After a recent reorganisation of their fellowship programmes, the EPSRC now provide a number of personal fellowships to early career and well-established researchers to carry out ambitious programmes of research, usually over a five-year period. These fellowships fund the recipient and enable them to build a research team around a specific topic area; they are prestigious and highly coveted by those within the EPSRC‘s remit.
However, as discussed on the Dundee Physics blog, the EPSRC‘s press release appeared to focus more on the funding infrastructure and process (perhaps indirectly supporting Shaping Capability), rather than highlighting the excellence of the researchers (who, seemingly as an afterthought, were named at the end of the press release). This is in stark contrast to the recent announcement of the Royal Society’s 2011 University Research Fellowships.
All of the following information has been taken from Grants on the Web (with thanks to David McGloin for first collating it):
Career Acceleration Fellowships
| EPSRC Ref. | PI | Organisation | Title | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP/J002062/1 | Ross, Dr J | University of Cambridge | Links between Algebraic Geometry and Complex Analysis | 693,701 |
| EP/J002658/1 | Dembele, Dr L | University of Warwick | Explicit methods for algebraic automorphic forms | 589,359 |
| EP/J001317/1 | Jeffrey, Dr M | University of Bath | When Worlds Collide: the asymptotics of interacting systems | 349,723 |
| EP/J001686/1 | Majumdar, Dr A | University of Oxford | The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals – Analysis, Computation and Applications | 501,887 |
| EP/J00149X/1 | Haynes, Dr A | University of Bristol | Circle rotations and their generalisations in Diophantine approximation | 590,969 |
| EP/J002437/1 | House, Dr TA | University of Warwick | Disease transmission and control in complex, structured populations | 632,534 |
| EP/J001872/1 | O’Hara, Dr C | University of Strathclyde | Chiral Concepts in s-Block Metal Amide Chemistry | 907,993 |
| EP/J002194/1 | Hofferberth, Dr S | University of Nottingham | Few-Photon Nonlinear Optics in Ultracold Rydberg Gases | 1,142,329 |
| EP/J002208/1 | Kerridge, Dr A | University College London | Theoretical studies of actinide complexation with macrocyclic ligands: identifying synthetic targets and real-world applications | 594,433 |
| EP/J002615/1 | McLain, Dr S | University of Oxford | Structural studies of atomic interactions in membranes: bridging the gap between physics and membrane biology | 1,345,845 |
| EP/J001821/1 | Leek, Dr PJ | University of Oxford | Strong coupling and coherence in hybrid solid state quantum systems | 892,726 |
| EP/J002275/1 | Hayward, Dr T J | University of Sheffield | MAGNETISM YOU CAN RELY ON: Understanding Stochastic Behaviour in Nanomagnetic Devices. | 698,105 |
| EP/J002542/1 | Galan, Dr M | University of Bristol | Novel ionic-based tools for glycoscience | 920,060 |
| EP/J002550/1 | Kar, Dr S | Queen’s University of Belfast | Next generation laser-driven neutron sources for ultrafast studies | 617,279 |
| EP/J002518/1 | Graham, Dr DM | The University of Manchester | Terahertz electron paramagnetic resonance: A window on biological exploitation of quantum mechanics | 755,989 |
| EP/J002577/1 | Eden, Dr SP | Open University | Electron attachment to biomolecular clusters: probing the role of multiple scattering in radio-sensitivity. | 618,329 |
| EP/J002348/1 | Zair, Dr A | Imperial College London | CADAM: Capturing Attosecond Dynamics in Atoms and Molecules | 697,864 |
| EP/J001538/1 | Bull, Dr JA | Imperial College London | Novel strategies to access chiral heterocycles as potential lead compounds in drug discovery | 723,115 |
| EP/J002305/1 | Barnes, Dr P R F | Imperial College London | Charge Carrier Dynamics and Molecular Wiring in Hybrid Optoelectronic Devices | 722,816 |
| EP/J002534/1 | Greaves, Dr S J | University of Bristol | Dynamics of Gas-Liquid Reactions; The Pseudo-Surface Approach | 1,059,463 |
| EP/J002259/1 | Hubert, Dr C | Newcastle University | DEEPBIOENGINEERING | 985,943 |
| EP/J002186/1 | NGODUY, Dr D | University of Leeds | Advanced traffic flow theory and control for heterogeneous intelligent traffic networks | 480,598 |
| EP/J002380/1 | Eames, Dr M | University of Exeter | The development of an early stage thermal model to protect against uncertainty and morbidity in buildings under predicted climate change | 506,058 |
| EP/J002356/1 | Dean, Dr P | University of Leeds | Coherent detection and manipulation of terahertz quantum cascade lasers | 695,589 |
| EP/J002224/1 | Brotherston, Dr J | Queen Mary, University of London | Logical Foundations of Resource | 465,503 |
| EP/J002607/1 | Sadrzadeh, Dr M | University of Oxford | Foundational Structures for Compositional Meaning | 529,968 |
| EP/J002526/1 | Yamagishi, Dr J | University of Edinburgh | Deep architectures for statistical speech synthesis | 741,163 |
| EP/J001953/1 | Mather, Dr M | University of Nottingham | Self-assembling Liposome Nano-transducers | 733,385 |
| EP/J002402/1 | Ebbens, Dr S | University of Sheffield | Using Self-Assembling Swimming Devices to Control Motion at the Nanoscale | 896,741 |
| EP/J002100/1 | Reddyhoff, Dr T | Imperial College London | Triboemission and Boundary Film Formation | 719,805 |
Leadership Fellowships
| EPSRC Ref. | PI | Organisation | Title | Value (£) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP/J003948/1 | Gelfreykh, Dr V | University of Warwick | Unstable Dynamics in Hamiltonian Systems | 821,038 |
| EP/J004022/1 | Luczak, Professor MJ | University of Sheffield | Stochastic models for epidemics in large populations: limiting and long-term behaviour | 952,949 |
| EP/J003840/1 | Adjiman, Dr CS | Imperial College London | The molecular frontier: extending the boundaries of process design | 1,278,003 |
| EP/J004081/1 | Reynolds, Dr P | University of Sheffield | Advanced Technologies for Mitigation of Human-Induced Vibration | 1,056,999 |
| EP/J003867/1 | Alavi, Professor A | University of Cambridge | Quantum Monte Carlo meets Quantum Chemistry | 968,120 |
| EP/J003875/1 | Bongs, Professor K | University of Birmingham | Dipolar Quantum Magnets | 1,325,121 |
| EP/J003832/1 | McKenna, Professor P | University of Strathclyde | Multi-PetaWatt Laser-Plasma Interactions: A New Frontier in Physics | 1,330,510 |
| EP/J003859/1 | Bresme, Dr F | Imperial College London | Novel thermo-molecular effects at nanoscale interfaces: from nanoparticles to molecular motors | 1,181,480 |
| EP/J003999/1 | Gregoryanz, Dr E | University of Edinburgh | Synthesis and Studies of Novel States of Matter at Extreme Conditions | 1,103,039 |
| EP/J004049/1 | Colton, Dr S | Imperial College London | Computational Creativity Theory | 970,170 |
| EP/J004057/1 | Cohen, Professor N | University of Leeds | WHole Animal Modelling (WHAM): Toward the integrated understanding of sensory motor control in C. elegans | 1,185,968 |
| EP/J004111/1 | Krasnogor, Professor N | University of Nottingham | Towards a Universal Biological-Cell Operating System (AUdACiOuS) | 1,026,408 |
| EP/J003964/1 | Rosser, Dr SJ | University of Glasgow | A synthetic biology approach to optimisation of microbial fuel cell electricity production | 960,594 |
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