European Research Council
The ERC has announced the winners of its first tranche of "advanced grants" in physical sciences and engineering. The awards were made to 105 researchers and the 19 British winners are published below. The grants allow exceptional established research leaders in any field of science, engineering and scholarship to pursue frontier research of their choice. Winners of advanced grants in social sciences and humanities will be announced later this month while winners for life sciences and interdisciplinary research will be published in October. The awards are worth up to EUR2.5 million (£2 million) over five years, but can rise to EUR3.5 million in exceptional circumstances. The call has a total budget of EUR517 million.
Award winner: Stephen Alec Billings
Institution: University of Sheffield
Nonlinear system identification and analysis in the time, frequency and spatio-temporal domains
Award winner: Anthony Kevin Cheetham
Institution: University of Cambridge
New directions in hybrid inorganic-organic framework materials
Award winner: Alexander Giles Davies
Institution: University of Leeds
New opportunities in terahertz engineering and science
Award winner: Savas Dimopoulos
Institution: University of Oxford
Physics beyond the standard model at the Large Hadron Collider and with atom interferometers
Award winner: Daniel Frenkel
Institution: University of Cambridge
Numerical design of self-assembly of complex colloidal structures
Award winner: William Gaver
Institution: Goldsmiths, University of London
Third-wave HCI: methods, domains and concepts
Award winner: Kevin Peter Homewood
Institution: University of Surrey
Silicon integrated lasers and optical amplifiers
Award winner: Sergei Kazarian
Institution: Imperial College London
Enhancing microfabricated devices with chemical imaging
Award winner: Michael Kramer
Institution: University of Manchester
Large European array for pulsars
Award winner: David Alan Leigh
Institution: University of Edinburgh
Synthetic molecules that walk down tracks: the first small-molecule linear motors
Award winner: Colin Robert McInnes
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Visionary space systems: orbital dynamics at extremes of spacecraft length-scale
Award winner: Ian Robinson
Institution: University College London
Exploration of strains in synthetic nanocrystals
Award winner: Matthew Rosseinsky
Institution: University of Liverpool
Resilient large unit cell inorganic materials
Award winner: Steve J. Rowland
Institution: University of Plymouth
Overlooked, unresolved toxic organic pollutants: resolution, identification, measurement and toxicity
Award winner: Martin Schroder
Institution: University of Nottingham
Chemistry of co-ordination space: extraction, storage, activation and catalysis
Award winner: Robert Stephen John Sparks
Institution: University of Bristol
Dynamics of volcanoes and their impact on environment and society
Award winner: Andrew Stuart
Institution: University of Warwick
Problems at the applied mathematics-statistics interface
Award winner: Thomas Welton
Institution: Imperial College London
Mixing ionic liquids
Award winner: Andrew Zisserman
Institution: University of Oxford
Visual recognition
National Institute for Health Research
Three new NIHR biomedical research units have been announced. They are part of a £10 million drive to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as heart disease, asthma and obesity. Each research unit will receive £3.4 million over the next four years.
Award winner: Barts & The London NHS Trust
Partner institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Cardiovascular disease
Award winner: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Partner institution: University of Nottingham
Gastrointestinal (including liver) disease
Award winner: Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Partner institution: University of Liverpool
Gastrointestinal disease.
