European Research Council
Forty-one UK researchers have won European Research Council "starting independent research grants". Below we publish details of 18 winners, following on from the details of 23 winners published in last week's issue. The grants provide between EUR500,000 (£357,000) and EUR2 million over five years for researchers to study at institutions of their choice. The greatest number of grants went to German researchers, followed by Italian, French and British researchers. The ERC expects roughly 300 proposals across the European Union to be funded overall. List is by alphabetical order of institution.
Award winner: Rosalind Rickaby
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Earth system science
Award winner: Graham Taylor
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Engineering sciences
Award winner: Claire Vallance
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Material and chemical sciences
Award winner: Permission to publicise name not granted
Institution: University of Oxford
Category: Evolutionary, population and environmental biology
Award winner: William Percival
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Category: Universe science
Award winner: Francesca Lodovico
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Category: Fundamental constituents of matter
Award winner: Cathy Craig
Institution: Queen's University Belfast
Category: The human mind and its complexity
Award winner: Virpi Lummaa
Institution: University of Sheffield
Category: Evolutionary, population and environmental biology
Award winner: Jon Slate
Institution: University of Sheffield
Category: Evolutionary, population and environmental biology
Award winner: Antonio Guarino
Institution: University College London
Category: Individuals and organisations
Award winner: Nicoletta Kessaris-Tekki
Institution: University College London
Category: Molecular, cellular and developmental biology
Award winner: Thomas Mrsic-Flogel
Institution: University College London
Category: Neurosciences
Award winner: Nicola Pavoni
Institution: University College London
Category: Individuals and organisations
Award winner: Felix Baumberger
Institution: University of St Andrews
Category: Condensed matter in physics and chemistry
Award winner: Michael Smith
Institution: University of St Andrews
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Award winner: Lucia Quaglia
Institution: University of Sussex
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Award winner: Milja Kurki
Institution: (Wales) Aberystwyth University
Category: Institutions, behaviour, values and beliefs
Award winner: Rachel Edwards
Institution: University of Warwick
Category: Engineering sciences
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Alistair Pike
Institution: University of Bristol
Value: £101,841
Dating the Palaeolithic cave art of the Iberian peninsula by uranium-series
Award winner: Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Institution: British Antarctic Survey
Value: £60,988
Reliable dating of the postglacial ice retreat in West Antarctica by an integrated palaeomagnetic and radiocarbon approach
Award winner: Jonathan Carrivick
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £74,591
Modelling rapid landscape change due to outburst floods
Award winner: Jan Kaiser
Institution: University of East Anglia
Value: £121,383
Isotopic signature of nitrate in the remote troposphere
Award winner: D. Greig
Institution: University College London
Value: £76,501
A screen for recessive yeast hybrid sterility genes
Award winner: S. R. Arnold
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £88,095
Investigating key uncertainties in models of tropospheric photochemistry
Award winner: C. L. Peacock
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £52,111
Mechanisms of trace-metal incorporation in ferromanganese deposits: implications for reconstructing ocean history
Award winner: W. O. H. Hughes
Institution: University of Leeds
Value: £87,599
Host resistance and within-host competition between leaf-cutting ant parasites with opposing transmission strategies
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Richard John Hayes
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Value: £604,200
Intravaginal practices in Tanzania and Uganda: relationships with the vaginal microenvironment, HIV and other STIs
Award winner: Ervin Fodor
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £1,157,052
Molecular interactions between the transcriptional machinery of influenza virus and the host cell
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winners: Chris Binns (University of Leicester), Ramin Golestanian (University of Sheffield)
Value: £300,222 (Leicester), £73,337 (Sheffield)
The Casimir force in complex topologies and its utility in nanomachines
Award winners: Philip Withers (University of Manchester), David Nowell and Fionn Dunne (University of Oxford), Martin Bache (Swansea University)
Value: £365,958 (Manchester), £290,782 (Oxford), £235,620 (Swansea)
Structural integrity of components with deep compressive residual stresses
Award winner: Stephen Creagh
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £126,811
Squeezing light from optical resonators
Award winners: Pavlos Lagoudakis and Alexei Kavokin
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £414,239
Spin currents and superfluidity of microcavity polaritons
Award winner: Peter Pietzuch
Institution: Imperial College London
Value: £515,840 and £299,175
Smart flow extendable event-based middleware and DISSP (dependable internet-scale stream processing)
Award winner: Nigel Wilding
Institution: University of Bath
Value: £297,414
Simulation studies of colloidal phase behaviour: beyond effective one-component models
Award winner: Sarah Waters
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £307,726
New mathematical models for perfusion bioreactors in tissue engineering
Award winner: Chris Hunter
Institution: University of Sheffield
Value: £362,424
Molecular recognition as a probe of solvation phenomena
Award winner: Jianhua Shao
Institution: Cardiff University
Value: £9,646
International workshop on advances in database research
Award winner: Bernd Fischer
Institution: University of Southampton
Value: £300,008
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