Leading international researchers to begin fellowships in UK

The third round of Newton International Fellowships has been awarded jointly by the UK’s national research academies – the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society. The Fellowship programme is a government-sponsored initiative to ensure that the UK engages with the world’s most promising academics.

The Newton International Fellowships provide an opportunity for some of the most talented early career post-doctoral researchers working overseas to carry out world class research in UK institutions across all disciplines of humanities, engineering, natural and social sciences. Fellows will receive support in the region of £100,000 each for a two year period in the UK.
 
The collaborations and links formed by Newton Fellows during the course of their Fellowship will continue to be supported by the availability of follow-on funding of up to £6,000 per year each, for up to ten years to help develop lasting international networks.
 
Awards were made to the following:
 
Alex Alvarado
 
Fundamental limits of bit-interleaved coded modulation
 
University of Cambridge
 
Florencia Barrios
 
Does time spent on the inside or outside influence cell fate decisions in the mouse embryo?
 
University of Cambridge
 
Dejan-Kresimir Bucar
 
Cocrystals with advanced surface and bulk properties: engineering and applications
 
University of Cambridge
 
Khadija Carroll
 
Visual and verbal taxonomy from object collections from the British colonies
 
University of Cambridge
 
Michele Ceriotti
 
Quantum nuclei in ab-initio molecular dynamics
 
University of Oxford
 
Elena Chekmeneva
 
Cooperativity in molecular recognition
 
University of Sheffield
 
Xia Chen
 
Novel functional components for high-speed energy-efficient photonic interconnects
 
University of Surrey
 
Karen Hoi-yan Cheung
 
Monitoring of stress transferability and biodegradability of silk-reinforced PLA bone plates
 
University of Cambridge
 
Claudio Chiarolla
 
Intellectual property strategies for low carbon technology research, development and diffusion
 
School of Oriental and African Studies
 
Vojtech Forejt
 
Verification of nondeterminsitic and stochastic systems with time
 
University of Oxford
 
Jingyan Fu
 
Plk4, Asterless, Sas4 interactions in centriole formation and function
 
University of Cambridge
 
Sushobhan Ghosh
 
Interaction of metal complexes with quadruplex DNA as molecular probes and oncogene regulators
 
Imperial College London
 
Pavel Ginzburg

Quantum emitters in nano-plasmonic environment
 
King's College London
 
Isabel Guillamón
 
Iron-based superconductivity: Fermi surface and superconducting gap anisotropy
 
University of Bristol
 
Igor Gutierrez-Zugasti
 
Climatic change and coastal settlement in Northern Spain during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
 
University of York
 
Marek Jankowiak
 
The Oriental trade between the Muslim lands and Northern Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries
 
University of Oxford
 
Ronald Jennings
 
Global subjects: Legal anthropology in the age of cosmopolitan law
 
London School of Economics & Political Science
 
Xiong Jin
 
Multifractal analysis of measures on random curves
 
University of St Andrews
 
Aras Kartouzian
 
Controlling surface chemistry on isolated size-selected metal clusters
 
University of Oxford
 
Tsan Yuk Lam
 
Combining genomic and epidemiological data to test models of influenza evolution
 
University of Oxford
 
Stefanie Liebe
 
The effect of functionally targeted single cell stimulation on neural activity and visual perception
 
University College London
 
Julian Mauricio Londono Monsalve
 
Enhanced structural control systems for damage reduction under earthquakes
 
University of Bristol
 
Allyson MacLean
 
The role of potential mobile units in phytoplasma adaptation to insect hosts
 
John Innes Centre
 
Chitra Murali
 
A multiscale approach to estimating non-Newtonian nature of human blood
 
Swansea University
 
Ghulam Nadri
 
The political economy of the indigo industry and trade in South Aasia, 1500-1900
 
London School of Economics & Political Science
 
Hirotaka Nakamura
 
Study on a relativistic oscillating mirror for novel radiation sources and electron jets
 
Imperial College London
 
Javier Navaridas
 
Networks-on-chip: Automatic network selection and synthesis of GALS
 
University of Manchester
 
Julien Oster
 
Suppression of magnetohydrodynamic effect on electrocardiogram in magnetic resonance imaging
 
University of Oxford
 
Yong Sung Park
 
Dynamic response of stratified, non-Newtonian, cohesive sediments to ocean surface waves
 
University of Dundee
 
Cedric Patthey
 
Evolution of placode-derived cell types assessed by transcriptome analysis
 
University of Oxford
 
Anna Pegoretti
 
Franciscan Florentine culture in the age of Dante
 
University of Leeds
 
Bruno Perreau
 
What's a family? Social work and gay adoption in France and in the United Kingdom
 
University of Cambridge
 
Aglae Pizzone
 
When Homer met Phantasia: Epic poetry and entertainment literature in Byzantium
 
University of Durham
 
Joshua Plotnik
 
A proximate understanding of cooperative behaviour in corvids and elephants
 
University of Cambridge
 
Helene Posson
 
Turbomachinery broadband noise prediction
 
University of Cambridge
 
Santitham Prom-on
 
Modelling speech prosody based on communicative function and articulatory dynamics
 
University College London
 
Simon Puglisi
 
Ranked document retrieval for general text indexes
 
King's College London
 
Laura Ross
 
Genomic conflict in scale insects: the causes and consequences of bizarre genetic systems
 
University of Oxford
 
Daniel Roy
 
Probabilistic programming and random data structures: Theory and algorithms
 
University of Cambridge
 
Shovonlal Roy
 
Remote-sensing based mathematical modelling on spectral regulation of mixed-layer and plankton bloom
 
University of Oxford
 
Vinodkumar Saranathan
 
Social hierarchy and sexual selection in blue tits: A robust biophysical approach
 
University of Oxford
 
Florian Steinberg
 
Role of SNX4:SNX7 and SNX4:SNX30 complexes in surface receptor recycling and cell motility
 
University of Bristol
 
Kartic Subr
 
Monte Carlo matrix chain product estimation for image synthesis
 
University College London
 
Paul Ugor
 
Reconstructing identities in precarious times: Youth and the politics of culture in Nigeria
 
University of Birmingham
 
Maxime Viallet
 
Implicit hydrodynamic simulations of stellar physics processes
 
University of Exeter
 
Zoe Elizabeth Wilson
 
Towards the second generation synthesis of azadirachtin
 
University of Cambridge
 
Amy Wyatt
 
The role of clusterin in age-related macular degeneration
 
University College London
 
Chuanlong Xu
 
Study of biomass/coal flow characteristics through sensor integration and multi-scale data fusion
 
University of Kent at Canterbury
 
Yan Yun
 
Household wealth of the elite families in Qing China: Life and material culture
 
University of Oxford
 
Junshan Zhou
 
Comparison of the elderly community care system in China and the United Kingdom
 
University of Sheffield
 
Further information about the Newton International Fellowships can be found at http://www.newtonfellowships.org/ .