• Royal Society announces latest round of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards

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    13 September 2011The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of twenty-six new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders. The scheme provides up to 5 years’ funding after which the award holder continues with a permanent post at the host university.  

    Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract to this country or to retain respected scientists of outstanding achievement and potential. The focus of the award is a salary enhancement, usually in the range of £10,000 to £30,000 per annum.

    The newly appointed award holders are working on a wide variety of projects including atmospheric aerosols, weather and climate; time and extra dimensions in space; early human evolution in Africa; and the impact of systemic infection and inflammation on the aged and diseased brain.

    The Wolfson Foundation is a grant-making charity established in 1955. Funding is given to support excellence. More information is available from www.wolfson.org.uk .

    The full list of Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award appointments is as follows:

    Professor Oreste Acuto

    University of Oxford

    Molecular mechanisms of TCR signalling determining T cell fates

    Professor Jonathan Blundy

    University of Bristol

    Magmatic differentiation in the Earth's Crust

    Professor Muffy Calder

    University of Glasgow

    Live formal models for predictable component-based systems

    Professor Ken Carslaw

    University of Leeds

    Atmospheric Aerosols, Weather and Climate

    Professor Neil Champness

    University of Nottingham

    Self-assembly of Photoactive Metal Organic Frameworks

    Professor Jonathan Clayden

    University of Manchester

    Communication via Molecular Conformation

    Professor David Cumming

    University of Glasgow

    Metamaterial sensor integration on to CMOS technology

    Professor Alexander Davies

    University of Leeds

    Semiconductor and biological nanotechnology, and applications to healthcare

    Professor Paddy Farrington

    Open University

    Statistical methods for pharmacoepidemiology and infectious disease epidemiology

    Professor Jianfeng Feng

    University of Warwick

    Bridging the gap between fMRI and Genome-wide data with applications in diseases

    Professor Ruth Gregory

    University of Durham

    Time and Extra Dimensions in Space

    Professor Andrew Liddle

    University of Sussex

    Unveiling the dark Universe

    Professor Mark Maslin

    University College London

    Investigating the causes of early Human Evolution in Africa

    Professor Paul Milewski

    University of Bath

    Three-dimensional solitary waves: from wind ripples to waves on floating ice

    Professor Carole Mundell

    Liverpool John Moores University

    Black Hole-Driven Explosions and the Dynamic Universe

    Professor Tracy Palmer

    University of Dundee

    Probing the mechanism of protein export by the bacterial Tat transport system

    Professor Richard Pancost

    University of Bristol

    The response of hydrological and biogeochemical cycles to past global warming

    Professor Hugh Perry

    University of Southampton

    The impact of systemic infection and inflammation on the aged and diseased brain

    Professor Raphael Rouquier

    University of Oxford

    Higher categorical and homotopical methods in representation theory

    Professor Debra Skene

    University of Surrey

    Linking light, circadian rhythms, sleep and metabolism in health and disease

    Professor  Maximilian Telford

    University College London

    Comparative genomics and the evolution of the Metazoa.

    Professor Jonathan Tennyson

    University College London

    Molecular line lists for extra solar planet and other hot bodies

    Professor David van Dyk

    Imperial College London

    Embedding Computer Models into Coherent Statistical Analyses in Astrophysics

    Professor Fiona Watt

    King's College London

    Manipulating the stem cell niche at single cell resolution

    Professor Howard Wilson

    University of York

    Stability and confinement in magnetised plasmas

    Professor Andrew Zisserman

    University of Oxford

    Visual recognition of object categories in images and videos

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