EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
The ERC's second Advanced Grants Awards, worth up to EUR3.5 million (£3.1 million), are for established researchers. Life sciences, physical sciences and engineering awards are listed here: others will be published in future issues.
Life sciences
Award winner: Claudio Stern
Institution: University College London
Gene networks controlling embryonic polarity, regulation and twinning
Award winner: Paul Stewart
Institution: University of Birmingham
Pre-receptor cortisol metabolism and human ageing
Award winner: Frank Uhlmann
Institution: Cancer Research UK
A molecular view of chromosome condensation
Award winner: Stephen West
Institution: Cancer Research UK
Defects in DNA strand break repair and links to inheritable disease
Physical sciences and engineering
Award winner: Varinder Aggarwal
Institution: University of Bristol
Revolutionising organic synthesis: efficient one-pot synthesis of complex organic molecules for non-experts
Award winner: Anthony Bell
Institution: University of Oxford
Cosmic ray acceleration, magnetic field and radiation hydrodynamics
Award winner: Jonathan Blundy
Institution: University of Bristol
Critical behaviour in magmatic systems
Award winner: Frederick Cloke
Institution: University of Sussex
Reductive transformations of carbon oxides
Award winner: Russell Cowburn
Institution: Imperial College London
Three-dimensional spintronics
Award winner: Simon Donaldson
Institution: Imperial College London
Geometric analysis, complex geometry and gauge theory
Award winner: Judith Driscoll
Institution: University of Cambridge
Perfectly interfaced nanomaterials for next-generation oxide electronics
Award winner: James Dunlop
Institution: University of Edinburgh
A complete history of massive proto-galaxies
Award winner: Michael Friswell
Institution: Swansea University
Optimisation of multiscale structures with applications to morphing aircraft
Award winner: Raymond Goldstein
Institution: University of Cambridge
Physical aspects of the evolution of biological complexity
Award winner: Georg Gottlob
Institution: University of Oxford
Domain-centric intelligent automated data-extraction methodology
Award winner: Michael Green
Institution: University of Cambridge
Properties and applications of the gauge/gravity correspondence
Award winner: Jon Gregory
Institution: University of Reading
Sea-level change due to climate change
Award winner: Clare Grey
Institution: University of Cambridge
Structure and function: the development and application of novel ex- and in-situ NMR approaches to study lithium-ion batteries and fuel-cell membranes
Award winner: Alexander Halliday
Institution: University of Oxford
New isotope systems for the geosciences
Award winner: Wilhelm Huck
Institution: University of Cambridge
The influence of interfaces, confinement and compartmentalisation on chemical reactions
Award winner: Serafim Kalliadasis
Institution: Imperial College London
Complex interfacial flows: from the nano- to the macro-scale
Award winner: Marta Kwiatkowska
Institution: University of Oxford
From software verification to everyware verification
Award winner: Edmund Linfield
Institution: University of Leeds
Terahertz optoelectronics - from the science of cascades to applications
Award winner: Ian Manners
Institution: University of Bristol
Functional nanomaterials via controlled block copolymer assembly
IN DETAIL
European Commission
Award winner: James Woodburn
Institution: Glasgow Caledonian University
Value: EUR3.73 million
A-Footprint
Professor Woodburn and his team will seek to build medical devices to tackle debilitating ankle and foot conditions, which affect about 200 million European citizens. The team will collaborate with institutions across the UK and mainland Europe to develop personalised ankle and foot braces that are cost-effective and can be manufactured rapidly.