The eighth
round of Newton International Fellowships has been awarded jointly by three of
the UK’s national research academies – the Royal Society, the British Academy
and the Academy of Medical Sciences
The Newton
International Fellowships are funded by the UK Government’s Department for
Business Innovation and Skills to ensure that the UK engages with the world’s
most promising early career academics.
The Fellowships provide an opportunity for some of the most talented post-doctoral researchers working overseas to carry out world class research in UK institutions across all disciplines of natural sciences and engineering, social science and humanities, and patient orientated research (or clinical research).
In 2015 the
Academies have awarded 37 Newton International Fellowships, in addition, this
year a further 10 Newton International Fellows have been supported through the
Newton Fund.
The Newton Fund
initiative aims to develop long-term sustainable growth and welfare of partner
countries through building research and innovation capacity, and forms part of
the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment. Newton Fund partner
countries include Brazil, China, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey.
The latest
group of successful applicants will be investigating topics ranging from the
preservation of soft tissue in amber to violence and citizenship in divided
Germany. They come from research institutes in around 20 different countries
including India, Romania, Nigeria and the USA.
The full list
of Newton International Fellowships for 2015 is as follows:
Mr Hussein
Abkallo, Kenyan - Genetic
validation of the function of PfEMP1 in Plasmodium falciparum rosette formation
- hosted by University of Edinburgh
Ms Sneha
Bansode, Indian - A
neural fingerprint of consciousness: Brain processing in the absence of
conscious awareness – hosted by University of Cambridge
Mr Scott
Blumenthal, American - Oxygen
isotopes in primates and implications for early hominin ecology - hosted by
University of Oxford
Dr Lori
Borgal, Canadian - Dissecting
the roles of the microtubule-associated proteins Asp/ASPM in cell division - hosted
by University of Exeter
Dr Dragos
Calma, Romanian - Premodern
Metaphysics without Aristotle? The Unpublished Commentaries on the 'Book of
Causes' - hosted by University of Cambridge
Dr Muhammed
Talha Cicek, Turkish - Negotiating
Empire in the desert: Ottomans and the Arab tribes of Syria, Iraq and Arabia,
1870–1914 - hosted by School of Oriental and African Studies and supported
by the Newton Fund
Dr Karuna
Dietrich Wielenga,
Indian - Historical origins of the informal sector: A case study of the
textile industry in south India - hosted by University of Oxford
Dr Fernanda
Duarte, Chilean - Plagiarizing
Proteins: In Silico Evolution of Catalysts for Selective Chemical Synthesis - hosted
by University of Oxford
Dr Natalia
Fili, Greek - The
interaction of fission yeast class I myosin with the plasma membrane and its
role on endocytosis - hosted by University of Kent at Canterbury
Dr Molly
Flaherty, American - Language
evolution in the lab and the field - how new languages trade-off redundancy and
efficiency - hosted by University of Edinburgh
Dr Vanessa
Fontana, Brazilian - Identification
of efficacy predictors for clopidogrel using integrated systems pharmacology
approach - hosted by University of Liverpool and supported by the Newton
Fund
Ms Jane
Freeland, Australian - Everyday
Violence and Citizenship in Divided Germany, 1970-1990 - hosted by
University of Bristol
Dr Jaclyn
Granick, American -
Jewish women’s internationalism, 1880-1995: A century of Jewish universalism - hosted
by University of Oxford
Dr Andrea
Idini, Italian - Ab-initio
nucleon scattering off medium mass isotopes - hosted by University of
Surrey
Dr Mario F.
Juruena, Brazilian - Mineralocorticoid
Receptor assessment in Bipolar Depression with Early Life Stress - hosted
by King's College London and supported by the Newton Fund
Dr Matt
Kandel, American - Teso
Retransforming: Land Dispossession, Violence, and Capital Accumulation,
1991-2015 - hosted by School of Oriental and African Studies
Dr Xue-Feng
Li, Chinese - The
role of macrophage-induced cancer cell autophagy in breast cancer metastasis - hosted
by University of Edinburgh and supported by the Newton Fund
Dr Jung-Wei
Liao, Taiwanese - Femtosecond
laser induced control of three-dimensional magnetic memory based on magnetic
ratchet - hosted by University of Cambridge
Dr Ziqi Lin, Chinese - Circulating histones
index disease severity in acute pancreatitis and other critical illness - hosted
by University of Liverpool and supported by the Newton Fund
Dr Mikhail
Lopatin, Russian - Musico-textual
topoi in Italian musical culture of the Trecento and early Quattrocento - hosted
by University of Oxford
Dr Siyuan Ma, Chinese - Does the endocrine and
immune response to burn injury underlie poor outcome in aged burn patients - hosted
by University of Birmingham and supported by the Newton Fund
Ms Victoria
McCoy, American - Soft
tissue preservation in amber - hosted by University of Leicester
Dr Robert
Mercas, Romanian - Big
data: New Algorithmical Challenges - hosted by King's College London
Ms Prineha
Narang, American - Excited
State Electronic and Photonic Phenomena at the Mesoscale for Energy Conversion
Devices - hosted by Imperial College London
Dr Megan
Oliva, Australian - Role
of endoplasmic reticulum in axonal cell physiology - hosted by University
of Cambridge
Dr Emuobosa
Orijemie, Nigerian - New
applied approaches to African farming systems: the long-term history of farming
in Tiv, Nigeria - hosted by University of Cambridge
Dr Ceren
Ozpinar, Turkish - Re-visiting
Feminist Temporalities in Art and Art History in Turkey from 1970s onwards - hosted
by University of Sussex and supported by the Newton Fund
Dr Juan Carlos
Palo Nieto, Spanish - Catalytic
stereoselective synthesis of glycosides - hosted by University of Bristol
Dr Oscar
Palomar Perez, Spanish
- MACHETE: Design of MAny-Core HETErogeneous processors for advanced
computer vision - hosted by University of Manchester
Mr Andrew
Peters, American - Corticostriatal
interactions in perceptual learning - hosted by University College London
Mr Jonathan
Preminger, Israeli -
Labor relations in a “national” industry following globalization: Israel’s
shipping industry - hosted by Cardiff University
Dr Corinna
Preuss, German – Artificial
gelatineous zooplankton - hosted by University of Warwick
Miss Joanna
Rakoczy, Australian - The
epigenetic effects of abnormal folate metabolism on fetal and placental
development - hosted by University of Cambridge
Dr Rafael
Rasse, Venezuelan – Autonomous
observations of oceanic carbon fluxes in oxygen minimum zones - hosted by
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Dr Sara
Sabater, Spanish - New
Organometallic 3d Metal Single Molecule Magnets - hosted by University of
Bath
Dr Yueru Sun, Chinese - Structural elucidation of
BRCA1, PALB2, BRCA2 tumour suppressor complex in Homologous Recombination - hosted
by Imperial College London
Mr Meng Tian, Chinese - Studies on Deep Carbon
Transport in Subduction Zones - hosted by University of Oxford
Dr Esther
Van Schagen, Dutch - How
can impact assessments improve EU contract law? - hosted by University of
Oxford
Dr Maarten
Van Zalk, Dutch - Aggression
Toward Minority Groups in Adolescence: A Biosocial Approach - hosted by
University of Oxford
Dr Ganesh
Venkataraman, Indian - Enantioselective
Coupling Reaction of Substituted Phenylacetylenes and Styrenes with Boronic
Esters - hosted by University of Bristol
Dr Tatsiana
Waseem, Belorussian - Neuron
specific chloride dynamics during hippocampal network activity - hosted by
University of Oxford
Mr Gijsbert
Werner, Dutch - The
Deep History of Mutualistic Cooperation - hosted by University of Oxford
Dr Aneta
Wróblewska-Kaminska,
Polish - Mathematical analysis of complex fluids - scales and multi-scales.
- hosted by Imperial College London
Dr Wuxiang
Xie, Chinese – Dose
response relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular disease in Beijing
- hosted by Imperial College London and supported by the Newton Fund
Ms Elsa
Zacco, Italian - Suppressing
amyloid formation: novel all-in-one therapeutics against neurodegeneration - hosted
by King's College London
Dr Pingyu
Zhang, Chinese - Novel
approaches to the design of multitargeted drugs to treat endemic cancers - hosted
by University of Warwick and supported by the Newton Fund
Dr Liyun
Zhang, Chinese - Advancing
artificial photosynthesis concepts by optimizing the catalyst-semiconductor
interface - hosted by University of Oxford and supported by the Newton Fund