New Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards announced
15 December 2011The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of eighteen 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 satellite concepts for reducing deforestation and mitigating climate change; developmental cognitive neuroscience; new biocatalysts by design and evolution; structural studies of the DNA damage response; and bringing the natural environment into real world decision making.
The full list of appointments is as follows:
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Professor Andrei Andreyev |
University of the West of Scotland |
Nuclear Fission in 'new' regions of Nuclear Chart |
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Professor Jurg Bahler |
University College London |
Non-coding RNA roles in genome regulation and cellular ageing |
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Professor Heiko Balzter |
University of Leicester |
Satellite concepts for reducing deforestation and mitigating climate change |
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Professor Ian Bateman |
University of East Anglia |
Bringing the Natural Environment into Real World Decision Making |
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Professor Michael Bruford |
Cardiff University |
Conservation genetics and local adaptation: from genomes to population management |
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Professor Austin Burt |
Imperial College London |
Homing endonuclease genes and malaria control |
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Professor Daniel Calegari |
University of Cambridge |
Stable commutator length |
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Professor Kwangwook Cho |
University of Bristol |
Synaptic plasticity and pathology in the brain |
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Professor Christine Davies |
University of Glasgow |
Lattice QCD meets experiment |
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Professor Rene de Borst |
University of Glasgow |
A high-fidelity simulation methodology for evolving structures and processes |
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Professor Piers Forster |
University of Leeds |
Climate mitigation by short lived species |
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Professor Ian Hamley |
University of Reading |
Peptide-Based Biomaterials: From Self-Assembly towards Applications |
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Professor Malcolm Levitt |
University of Southampton |
Integrated Magnetic Resonance |
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Professor Stefan Maier |
Imperial College London |
Nanoscale control over electromagnetic fields from the visible to the terahertz |
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Professor Denis Mareschal |
Birkbeck College, University of London |
The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience of Early Scientific Reasoning |
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Professor Nicholas Turner |
University of Manchester |
New Biocatalysts by Design and Evolution |
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Professor Jonathan Williams |
University of Bath |
Environmentally-benign catalytic synthesis of amides |
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Professor Xiaodong Zhang |
Imperial College London |
Structural Studies of the DNA Damage Response |
The Wolfson Foundation is a grant-making charity established in 1955. Funding is given to support excellence. More information is available from