Royal Society announces University Research Fellowships for 2014
19 September 2014The Royal Society has announced the appointment of 43 new University Research Fellows (URFs) for 2014. The Research Fellows take up their new posts at institutions across the UK from October.
The University Research Fellowship scheme aims to provide outstanding scientists, who have the potential to become leaders in their chosen fields, with the opportunity to build an independent research career. The scheme is extremely competitive and URFs are expected to be strong candidates for permanent posts in universities at the end of their fellowships.
The newly appointed URFs are working on a wide variety of projects including discovering the origin of fermion masses at the LHC, exploring new science and technology in novel layered materials, and detecting electrostatic fields in bees.
The full list of appointments is as follows:
Dr Artem Bakulin – University of Cambridge
Optical control of conductivity in organic- and bio-electronic devices
Dr Francesco Benini – Imperial College London
Quantum field theories at strong coupling: exact computations and applications
Dr Lapo Bogani – University of Oxford
Optical Control of Interacting Magnetic Systems
Dr George Booth – King's College London
Bringing wavefunction-based computational methods to the solid state
Dr Jens Chluba – University of Cambridge
CMB spectral distortions as a new probe of early-Universe physics
Dr Gareth Conduit – University of Cambridge
Concurrent materials design
Dr Robert Crain – Liverpool John Moores University
The gaseous Universe in realistic cosmological simulations
Dr Daniel Credgington – University of Cambridge
Spin-control and spin-dependent recombination in organic electronics
Dr Alexander Eggeman – University of Cambridge
Nanoscale electron diffraction - 3-D structure and dynamics
Dr Aires Ferreira – University of York
Spintronics in adatom decorated graphene
Dr James Andrew Gillis – University of Cambridge
Gill arch serial homology and the origin of the jawed vertebrate body plan
Dr Roman Gorbachev – University of Manchester
Materials and devices assembled on demand from isolated atomic planes
Dr Ian Griffiths – University of Oxford
21st century fluid dynamical challenges in water purification
Dr Benjamin Hall – University of Cambridge
The cell as a cell phone: modelling biology as a cyber-physical system
Dr Sergio Ioppolo – The Open University
ALMA in a lab: gas-solid pathways to molecular complexity in space
Dr Krzysztof Latuszynski – University of Warwick
From the Bernoulli factory to a Kolmogorov factory
Dr Johannes Lischner – Imperial College London
Advancing the theory of electronic excitations in materials
Dr James Locke – University of Cambridge
The generality, mechanism, and function of stochastic gene regulation
Dr Benjamin Morgan –University of Bath
Modelling collective lithium-ion dynamics in battery materials
Dr Michael Morrissey – University of St Andrews
A developmental evolutionary quantitative genetic theory
Dr Adam Moss– University of Nottingham
Cosmology in the early and late Universe
Dr David Mulryne – Queen Mary, University of London
Inflationary cosmology after Planck and the LHC
Dr Peter Munro – University College London
Next generation, quantitative, pre-clinical imaging
Dr Patrik Nosil – University of Sheffield
Genome evolution: moving from pattern to underlying process
Dr Andreas Nunnenkamp – University of Cambridge
Quantum science and technology with opto-mechanical systems
Dr Thomas Ott – John Innes Centre
Molecular dynamics and function of membrane micro-domains
Dr Mark Owen – University of Glasgow
Discovering the origin of fermion masses at the LHC
Dr Robert Pal – University of Durham
Development and chemical application of phase modulation nanoscopy
Dr Robert Phipps – University of Cambridge
Exploiting hydrogen bonds for control in chemical catalysis
Dr Rahul Raveendran Nair – University of Manchester
Exploration of new science and technology in novel layered materials
Dr Thomas Richards – University of Exeter
Dissecting a nascent phototrophic endosymbiotic interaction
Dr Tim Rogers – University of Bath
Uncertainty in sparse systems
Dr Jacqueline Rosette – Swansea University
Inventory of the vegetated land surface using remote sensing technologies
Dr Marco Sacchi – University of Reading
Rationalizing the driving-forces and dynamics of supramolecular self-assembly
Dr Alberto Sesana – University of Birmingham
Gravitational wave detection with pulsar timing arrays
Dr Jie Song – Imperial College London
Reprogramming of epigenetic memory during plant regeneration
Dr Julian Sonner – University of Oxford
From holographic space time to condensed matter and back
Dr Samuel Staton – University of Cambridge
Principled foundations for programming languages
Dr Kartic Subr – Heriot-Watt University
Interactive-View Imaging of Dynamic Events (IVIDE)
Dr Gregory Sutton – University of Bristol
Detection and measurement of electrostatic fields in bees
Dr Stephen Thomas – University of Edinburgh
Simplifying iron catalysis; novel activation and reactivity
Dr Ventsislav Valev – University of Bath
Nonlinear meta-chiroptical effects
Dr Sam Vinko – University of Oxford
From stars to proteins: unveiling material response in intense X-ray fields