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Over 100 ERC awards for 果冻影院 researchers
16 January 2014
With the award of 鈧�1.9m to Professor Angelos Michaelides (果冻影院 London Centre for Nanotechnology), 果冻影院's share of European Research Council (ERC) funding for 2008-2013 has breached the 鈧�156m barrier with over 鈧�33m awarded in 2013.
果冻影院, along with Oxford, has been awarded nine consolidator grants, the highest number awarded to any UK university.
Over 100 awards have been made between 2008-2013. 果冻影院 was awarded 16 Early Stage grants in 2013, which aim to support promising researchers to become research leaders.
Professor Michaelides was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2008, making him the first ERC grant holder at 果冻影院. He has recently been awarded a Consolidator Grant worth 鈧�1.9m for his work on the HeteroIce project at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
Professor Michaelides said: "Getting an ERC grant is like winning the lottery. Obviously I'm delighted to win it for a second time! The sustained long-term funding ERC grants provide are enabling me and my research group to tackle some of the most fundamental and challenging problems in the chemical sciences"
Michael Browne, Head of the European Research and Innovation Office at 果冻影院, said: "We're delighted by the recent awards, which will support a vast range of exciting work taking place across 果冻影院. ERC funding enables our researchers to develop their projects and their careers at 果冻影院 and provides an opportunity for researchers to explore subjects in their full complexity."
Professor David Price, 果冻影院 Vice Provost (Research), said: "This level of sustained funding from the ERC is testament to the world-leading research taking place at 果冻影院, and we are proud of the insight and knowledge being generated across the university. I would like to congratulate the researchers on their success, and wish them all the best in their continued research."
The successful applicants are:
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Starting grants
Dr Niloy Mitra (果冻影院 Computer Science) for "Structure-Aware Geometry Processing"
Professor Tiziana Rossetto for (果冻影院 Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) "UrbanWaves: Evaluating structure vulnerability to tsunami and earthquakes"
Dr Aureo de Paula (果冻影院 Economics) for "Econometric Analysis of Interaction Models"
Dr Paul Gissen (果冻影院 Institute of Child Health) for "Cultured Liver Organoids on 3-D Scaffolds as Novel Approach to the Investigation and Treatment of Inherited Cholestatic Diseases"
Dr Tracy Kivell (果冻影院 Anthropology) for "The evolution of the human hand: grasping trees and tools"
Dr Vitor Pinheiro (果冻影院 Structural & Molecular Biology) for "Directed evolution of a synthetic episome based on hexitol nucleic acids (HNA)"
Dr Mirko Trajkovski (果冻影院 Structural & Molecular Biology) for "Role of miRNAs in brown and white adipose tissue differentiation and function"
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Consolidator grants
Professor Angelos Michaelides (果冻影院 London Centre for Nanotechnology) for "Towards a molecular level understanding of heterogeneous ice nucleation"
Dr Giovanna Tinetti (果冻影院 Physics and Astronomy) for "Decoding Lights from Exotic Worlds"
Dr Jernej Ule (果冻影院 Neuroscience) for" Specificity of translational control during unfolded protein response"
Professor Maria Cristina De Nardi (果冻影院 Economics) for "Savings and Risk Over the Lifecycle: Theory and Evidence"
Dr Martin Holbraad (果冻影院 Anthropology) for "Making Selves, Making Revolutions: Comparative Anthropologies of Revolutionary Politics"
Dr Nikolaus Weiskopf (果冻影院 Neurology) for "Non-Invasive In-Vivo Histology in Health and Disease Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)"
Dr Paolo Salomoni (果冻影院 Cancer Institute) for "The histone H3.3 variant in brain cancer pathogenesis"
Dr Rebecca Empson (果冻影院 Anthropology) for " Emerging Subjects of the New Economy: Tracing Economic Growth in Mongolia"
Professor Charles Swanton (果冻影院 Cancer Institute) for "Tumour Heterogeneity and Somatic Evolution of Unstable cancer genomes"