Grant winners - 9 October 2014

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Sciences

• Award winner: Alexander Belton
• Institution: Lancaster University
• Value: £84,895

Quantum random walks and quasi-free quantum stochastic calculus

• Award winner: Sergei Novikov
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: £132,073

Molecular beam epitaxy for graphene/boron nitride electronics

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Clive Wilson
• Institution: University of Oxford
• Value: £477,3

Regulation and functions of male-derived shed microvesicles in Drosophila reproduction

• Award winner: Juliet Osborne
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £305,594

A systems approach to understanding the impacts of sublethal doses of neonicotinoids on bumblebees and honeybees

• Award winner: Ruth Zadoks
• Institution: University of Glasgow
• Value: £746,803

Hazards associated with zoonotic enteric pathogens in emerging livestock meat pathways (HAZEL)

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards

Awards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancement

• Award winner: Sven Hoefling
• Institution: University of St Andrews

Quantum engineered semiconducting and transition metal oxide materials

• Award winner: Damien Murphy
• Institution: Cardiff University

Pressurised pathways for free radical detection

• Award winner: Paul Wilson
• Institution: University of Southampton

Perturbations and transitions in Cenozoic climate states

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Standard Research

• Award winner: Slobodan Djordjevic
• Institution: University of Exeter
• Value: £36,024

Experimental and numerical investigation of pluvial flood flows and pollutant transport at and between system interface points

• Award winner: Sergei Sazhin
• Institution: University of Brighton
• Value: £374,417

Investigation of vortex ring-like structures in internal combustion engines, taking into account thermal and confinement effects

• Award winner: Haydn Martin
• Institution: University of Huddersfield
• Value: £99,391

Development of an optical system for online tracking of cell growth on microcarriers

In detail

Award winner: Robin Bloomfield
Institution: City University London
Value: £402,738

Communicating and evaluating cyber risk and dependencies (CEDRICS)

This project will carry out work in communicating and evaluating cyber risk to industrial control systems. It will assist in understanding and mitigating vulnerabilities from hackers or malware infiltrating the UK’s critical national infrastructure systems such as public health, transport and energy systems. The project will address two issues: understanding and communicating cyber risks, and evaluating defence in depth and impact on dependencies. “The research will produce a methodology supported with modelling software that can be deployed in the risk assessment of critical infrastructures,” said Robin Bloomfield.