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Research Project Grants 2016

Sciences

Professor Steve Armes
University of Sheffield
In situ SAXS studies of micellar nucleation during block copolymer syntheses
£161,051

Dr George Bassel
University of Birmingham 
Evolution of cellular patterning in plants
£150,461

Dr Andrew Bayliss
University of East Anglia
Examining the mechanisms underpinning shared attention
£270,862

Dr Magnus Bebbington
Heriot-Watt University 
From hydroamination to dipolar cycloaddition through dual-mode catalysis
£110,467

Dr David Belin
University of Cambridge 
Mapping the neural circuit subserving interoceptive control over behaviour 
£325,585

Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso
University of Leeds
Unlocking plant intercellular channels: lessons from cell wall molecular biophysics
£353,301

Professor Malcolm Bennett
University of Nottingham
Watching plants drink: imaging where, when and how roots take up water
£283,147

Dr Roger Benson
University of Oxford
Timing the origin of genome doubling in fossil teleosts
£248,425

Dr Zara Bergstrom
University of Kent
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying retrieval-induced updating of face memories
£191,067

Dr Jacopo Bertolotti
University of Exeter
Prime factorisation using light
£118,672

Professor Peter Beton
University of Nottingham 
Flexibility and curvature in two-dimensional supramolecular arrays
£289,358

Professor Jeffrey Bowers
University of Bristol 
When and why do neural networks learn selective codes?
£252,194

Professor Steven Bramwell
University College London
Spin ice spintronics: surface and thin film probes of emergent electromagnetism 
£482,452

Dr Caroline Brennan
Queen Mary, University of London
The genetics of numeracy and the evolutionary basis of number; can fish count?
£291,247

Professor Fernando Bresme
Imperial College London
Electrotunable nanoscale friction: from full stall to superlubricity
£237,563

Dr Amanda Bretman
University of Leeds
How are flexible behavioural responses to rapidly changing environments coordinated at the genomic level? 
£245,369

Dr Ralf Britz
Natural History Museum
Breaking the rules – development and evolution of extreme asymmetry and morphological novelty
£270,782

Dr Mark Burnley
University of Kent
Emergent properties of the fatiguing neuromuscular system
£160,189

Professor Michael Carpenter
University of Cambridge
Magnetoelastic coupling behaviour and multiferroicity of magnetic iron oxide and sulphide minerals
£219,851

Dr Yin Chen
University of Warwick
Biochemical and structural characterisation of a unique Rieske oxygenase CntA
£181,768

Dr David Chesmore
University of York
Automatic acoustic observatories: non-invasive long term monitoring of acoustic species
£310,933

Dr Andy Chow
University College London
Agent-based modelling and optimisation of transport network resilience 
£72,865

Professor Lesley Cohen
Imperial College London
Microwave induced Andreev bound states
£216,563

Dr Georgina Cosma
Nottingham Trent University
Novel approaches for constructing optimised multimodal data spaces
£115,355

Dr Claire Cousins
University of St Andrews
Frozen but not forgotten: microbial habitability and preservation in planetary fluids
£165,903

Dr William Curran
Queen’s University Belfast
The importance of social context in interpreting and generating laughter
£123,378

Professor Brendan Davies
University of Leeds
A new dimension for plants
£247,555

Dr Ian Davies
Liverpool John Moores University 
New frontiers in lipoprotein analysis: small molecules, big questions?
£127,026

Dr João Pedro de Magalhães
University of Liverpool 
Data-driven discovery of correlations between genes and ageing-related changes
£304,873

Professor Andrew Ellis
University of Leicester
The building blocks of gas hydrates
£126,560

Professor Maurice Elphick
Queen Mary, University of London
From starfish to sex: the origins of kisspeptin signalling
£113,015

Dr Geoffrey Evatt
University of Manchester
The lost meteorites of Antarctica
£258,599

Professor Norman Fenton
Queen Mary, University of London
Improved understanding of causal models in dynamic decision-making
£383,510

Dr David Ferrier
University of St Andrews
Determining major general regulatory mechanisms in the ParaHox gene cluster
£167,184

Professor Gavin Foster
University of Southampton 
The nature and consequences of historic and future ocean acidification; insights from boron isotopes in corals
£262,470

Professor Mark Fricker
University of Oxford 
The third mode of life
£240,471

Professor Lorenzo Frigerio
University of Warwick 
The cell biology of rubber biosynthesis – the endoplasmic reticulum connection
£178,467

Dr Kumiko Fukumura
University of Strathclyde
The mechanisms of choosing pronouns: a cross-linguistic study
£156,799

Professor Matthew Gaunt
University of Cambridge
New concepts for activity based protein profiling (ABPP)
£119,318

Dr Elena Gheorghiu
University of Stirling 
Elucidating the role of colour in shape processing in human vision
£130,595

Dr Nikitas Gidopoulos
Durham University 
Progress in Kohn Sham electronic structure theory from a wave function approach
£184,351

Dr Andrew Gillis
University of Cambridge
Development of gill arch appendages: insights into the origin of paired fins
£170,844

Dr Diego Gómez-Nicola
University of Southampton
Understanding the dynamics and diversity of microglia in the healthy and ageing brain
£236,866

Professor Julie Gray
University of Sheffield
How do plants restrict stomatal entry routes following pathogen attack?
£82,693

Professor Ruth Gregory
Durham University
Challenging the standard model with black holes
£192,413

Dr Matthew Grubb
King’s College London 
Linking functional and epigenetic plasticity at the single-neuron level
£212,234

Dr Scott Habershon
University of Warwick 
Network organisation in biological photosynthesis
£104,642

Professor Patrick Haggard
University College London
Processes and precursors of volition: comparing endogenous and exogenous action decisions in the human brain
£220,328

Dr Antonia Hamilton
University College London
Understanding and generating real-time face-to-face social interactions
£314,885

Dr D Flemming Hansen
University College London
Exploring the conformational sampling and motions of side chains in proteins
£198,009

Dr Simon Harvey
Canterbury Christ Church University 
Nematode genetic variation and protein misfolding disease
£88,288

Dr Helmut Hauser
University of Bristol
Computing with spiders’ webs – an inspiration for new sensors and robots
£264,745

Professor Paul Hibbard
University of Essex
Depth-cue combination in complex natural scenes
£71,714

Dr Neal Hinvest
University of Bath 
Elucidating the ‘shared brain’
£127,111

Dr James Hodge
University of Bristol
Optogenetic imaging and remote control of fly electrical clock
£210,844

Professor Felix Hofmann
University of Oxford
Probing the invisible: characterising atomic-scale point defects with X-rays
£254,220

Dr Sarah Horswell
University of Birmingham
Advanced bioelectrochemical measurements on unsupported membranes
£245,580

Dr Andrew Hudson
University of Leicester
Development of a sensor to quantify cellular concentrations of heme
£201,752

Dr Robert Hughes
Royal Holloway, University of London
Memory and language: a perceptual-motor approach to verbal sequence learning
£149,397

Dr Wassim Jabi
Cardiff University 
Enhancing the representation of architectural space in 3D modelling environments
£300,485

Dr Mateja Jamnik
University of Cambridge 
ARD: accessible reasoning with diagrams
£383,728

Dr Francis Jiggins
University of Cambridge
The evolution and origins of arthropod RNAi
£153,665

Dr Matthew Johnson
University of Sheffield
Organisation of photosystem I and ATP synthase in plant photosynthetic membranes
£178,389

Professor Alex Kacelnik
University of Oxford
Relational concept imprinting in ducklings
£171,635

Professor Anthony Kenyon
University College London
Understanding and controlling dynamic functional oxides
£331,470

Dr James Kilner
University College London
The role of emotion in believable acting
£149,231

Professor Hon Wai Lam
University of Nottingham
Remote functionalisation by the chain walking of allylmetal species
£180,351

Dr Ellouise Leadbeater
Royal Holloway, University of London
The evolution of cognition: “intelligence” in the wild
£249,516

Dr Tung Chun Lee
University College London
Mechanism of catalysis inside nanoreactors
£225,179

Dr Daniele Leonori
University of Manchester
Visible-light mediated synthesis of nitrogen-centred radicals
£105,569

Dr Paul Long
King’s College London 
Are endoparasitic cnidarians venomous animals? A pioneering study into an ancient lineage 
£384,673

Professor Stefan Maier
Imperial College London
Topologically protected flexural waves in thin elastic plates
£270,855

Dr Svetlana Makovets
University of Edinburgh
Proteolysis-dependent regulation of telomerase catalytic subunit
£174,381

Dr Stephen Mansell
Heriot-Watt University
Enabling N2 and hydrocarbon activation using first row transition metals
£106,406

Dr Jason McEwen
University College London
Illuminating the dark Universe with novel 3D spherical informatics methods
£323,389

Professor Alistair McGregor
Oxford Brookes University
How to build a spider: regulation of segmentation in Parasteatoda tepidariorum
£160,246

Dr Rebecca Melen
Cardiff University 
Main group catalysis: chiral borenium cations
£173,742

Professor Jane Mellor
University of Oxford
Defining the fundamental nature of antisense transcription
£139,816

Dr Patrick Mesquida
King’s College London
Are collagen fibrils ladders for cells?
£107,268

Dr James Moore
Goldsmiths, University of London 
Exploring intentionality biases in the analysis of human behaviour
£164,459

Professor Michael Morgan
City University London
A bayesian approach to the control of eye movements in human subjects
£122,047

Dr Ian Morris
University of Surrey
Lower bounds for Lyapunov exponents
£267,776

Professor Russell Morris
University of St Andrews
Metallorganic frameworks as anode materials for high performance batteries
£105,312

Professor Colin Murrell
University of East Anglia 
The role of facultative methanotrophs in the cycling of natural gas
£196,819

Professor Richard Napier
University of Warwick
Self-organising carbon nanosensors for imaging morphogenic gradients in plants
£309,063

Dr Robert Nash
Aston University
Cognitive biases in the recipience of past- and future-oriented feedback
£98,236

Professor Tim Naylor
University of Exeter
A new understanding of planet formation
£184,349

Professor Hugh Nimmo
University of Glasgow
Temperature perception in plants by a splicing factor-clock transcript module
£167,018

Dr Charles O’Hara
University of Strathclyde
Main group element enhancement of transition metal C-H bond activation chemistry
£220,527

Dr Karen Olsson-Francis
Open University
The feasibility of contemporary life elsewhere in our Solar System
£170,394

Dr Rupert Oulton
Imperial College London 
Quantum nano-plasmonics
£251,539

Dr Antonio Padilla
University of Nottingham
A new approach to the cosmological constant problem: disentangling local physics from global
£212,393

Professor Daniel Paulusma
Durham University
Efficient graph colouring algorithms via input restrictions
£187,316

Dr Thomas Penfold
Newcastle University 
Probing femtosecond dynamics with core hole spectroscopy: a theoretical approach
£146,559

Dr Andre Pires da Silva
University of Warwick 
Gamete-mediated transmission of parental experience
£184,110

Professor Emmanuel Pothos
City University London 
A quantum approach to decision making in Bernoulli’s St. Petersburg’s paradox
£111,895

Dr Clare Press
Birkbeck, University of London 
The paradoxical influences of prediction on perception: do actions silence perception?  
£205,756

Professor David Procter
University of Manchester
Asymmetric copper-catalysed multicomponent assembly of high value amines
£163,225

Professor Aleksandr Pukhlikov
University of Liverpool
Birational geometry of higher-dimensional Fano varieties of higher index
£76,646

Dr David Reby
University of Sussex
Voice and sex stereotypes: a developmental perspective
£222,515

Professor Neil Robertson
University of Edinburgh
Materials development to realise the organic piezoelectronic transistor
£299,296

Professor David Rueda
Imperial College London
Visualising repressor-activator competition as a mechanism of Ikaros-mediated gene regulation
£186,209

Professor Saverio Russo
University of Exeter
Room temperature quantum electronics
£254,711

Dr Victor Sans Sangorrin
University of Nottingham
Advanced molecular materials based on 3D-printed polymeric ionic liquids
£161,448

Professor Pauline Schaap
University of Dundee
Understanding the molecular mechanisms that control somatic cell specialisation
£227,354

Dr Felix Schulze
University College London
Advances in contact topology via Lagrangian mean curvature flow
£337,709

Professor Mark Searle
University of Nottingham 
Reading the ubiquitin barcode – new tools from next generation phage display
£171,572

Dr Evelyne Sernagor
Newcastle University
A novel approach to functional classification of retinal ganglion cells
£274,437

Professor Mike Shipman
University of Warwick
Oxetane enhanced macrocyclisation technology: macrocyclic peptides made easy
£243,135

Professor Lucia Sivilotti
University College London
Spatially resolved optical patch clamp of single ion channels
£207,280

Professor Austin Smith
University of Cambridge
Delimiting the stem cell phase boundary via time normalisation
£224,408

Dr Marie Smith
Birkbeck, University of London 
The social side of face perception: insights from atypical development
£177,298

Dr Howard Snelling
University of Hull
Laplacian magic windows
£123,828

Professor Gyaneshwar Srivastava
University of Exeter
Tuning thermal transport in nanocomposites with size, shape and interface control
£228,338

Dr Vasilios Stavros
University of Warwick 
Unravelling photoprotection pathways in plant sunscreens
£314,841

Dr Richard Stephenson
University of East Anglia 
Asymmetric ‘click’-synthesis of Helicenes
£166,029

Dr Tyler Stevenson
University of Aberdeen
Identification of the photoreceptor for light detection in the avian brain
£246,909

Dr Anne Straube
University of Warwick
How microtubule plus tip trackers couple polymer assembly to cargo transport
£256,434

Dr Naeem Syed
Canterbury Christ Church University 
Understanding the epigenetics of alternative splicing in the plant clock genes
£268,307

Professor Steve Tipper
University of York 
Harnessing the power of visuomotor fluency to encourage healthy choices 
£266,328

Professor John Trinick
University of Leeds 
Structure and function of 50 nm extracellular filaments in reproduction
£171,742

Professor Hendrik Ulbricht
University of Southampton 
Non-interferometric test of the quantum superposition principle
£384,300

Professor Patrick Unwin
University of Warwick
Lab-on-a-tip: real-time nanoscale analysis of living cells
£102,460

Dr Dhanraj Vishwanath
University of St Andrews
What does it mean to ‘see in 3D’? Explaining the phenomenology of stereopsis
£161,204

Professor Tim Vogels
University of Oxford
The cooperative brain: multipartite plasticity for entwined cortical functions
£169,663

Professor Jemma Wadham
University of Bristol
Sub-ice weathering: a missing link in the global silicon cycle?
£261,904

Dr Andrea Waeschenbach
Natural History Museum
Molecules meet fossils – an integrated approach to studying palaeodiversity
£350,090

Dr Bridget Waller
University of Portsmouth
Cultural variation in the social function and expression of guilt
£106,827

Dr Ben Webb
University of Nottingham 
Timescales of multisensory recalibration in natural environments 
£250,275

Professor Eske Willerslev
University of Cambridge
Method for quantification of ancient plant populations using fossil pollen DNA  
£354,456

Dr Kate Wilmut
Oxford Brookes University
Movement planning during reach-to-grasp tasks across the lifespan
£52,581

Dr Andrew Wright
University of St Andrews 
Synthesis of real and virtual space weather data
£149,270

Dr Shengfu Yang
University of Leicester
Investigation of combustion chemistry using superfluid helium nanodroplets
£137,884

Dr Ozgur Yazaydin
University College London
Engineering of electric field controlled molecular gates in porous materials
£110,235

Dr Liming Ying
Imperial College London 
Probing synaptic amyloid-ß aggregation by redox reaction enabled super-resolution imaging
£331,179

Dr Igor Yurkevich
Aston University 
Disorder-induced superconductivity in quasi-1D strongly correlated materials
£213,919

Dr Mischa Zelzer
University of Nottingham
Surfaces, the next frontier in understanding and controlling gel properties
£154,274

Dr Eli Zysman-Colman
University of St Andrews 
Blue-emitting TADF materials for OLEDs based on a Lewis acid-containing acceptor
£319,908

Humanities

Dr Christopher Briggs
University of Cambridge
Living standards and material culture in English rural households, 1300–1600
£319,133

Professor Cyprian Broodbank
University of Cambridge
Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, c. 9600–700 BCE
£115,433

Dr Chris Cummins
University of Edinburgh
Bilingualism, pragmatic enrichment and reasoning biases
£128,487

Professor John Divers
University of Leeds
Thinking counterfactually. How would have been reveals what is and what must be
£165,945

Professor Alison Donnell
University of Reading
Caribbean literary heritage: recovering the lost past and safeguarding the future
£412,750

Dr John Gilmore
University of Warwick
Oriental poetry, Latin scholarship and the European Enlightenment: the case of William Jones
£249,968

Dr Nathaniel Hansen
University of Reading
The psychology of philosophical thought experiments
£101,062

Dr Rebekah Higgitt
University of Kent
Metropolitan science: places, objects and cultures of practice and knowledge in London, 1600–1800
£368,663

Dr Richard Huzzey
University of Liverpool 
Re-thinking petitions, parliament and people in the long nineteenth century
£367,072

Dr Richard Jones
University of Leicester 
Flood and flow: place-names and the changing hydrology of river-systems
£375,816

Dr Robert Jones
University of Leeds 
The political works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
£272,621

Professor John Klapper
University of Birmingham
Inner and outer exile in fascist Germany and Spain: a comparative study
£314,730

Professor Jason König
University of St Andrews
Mountains in ancient literature and culture and their post-classical reception
£186,123

Dr Simon Lewis
Queen Mary, University of London 
The Breckland Palaeolithic project: culture, technology and evolving humans
£255,147

Dr Jamie Medhurst
Aberystwyth University 
A decade of change: television and society in Wales in the 1970s
£113,813

Professor Clive Oppenheimer
University of Cambridge
Nature and impacts of Middle Pleistocene volcanism in the Ethiopian Rift
£165,547

Dr David Petts
Durham University 
Landscape archaeology of the Great Depression in northern England
£255,085

Dr Jim Phillips
University of Glasgow
Employment, politics and culture in Scotland, 1955–2015
£215,596

Professor Stephen Read
University of St Andrews
Theories of paradox in fourteenth-century logic: edition and translation of key texts
£155,655

Professor Tim Rood
University of Oxford 
Anachronism and antiquity
£303,249

Dr James Ross
University of Winchester 
Kingship, court and society at the dawn of the modern age: the chamber books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485–1521
£200,932

Professor Peter Alexander Rowley-Conwy
Durham University 
Maximising milk yield in early Neolithic cattle farming: stable isotopic analyses and the origins and spread of breeding cycle manipulation across Europe
£189,116

Dr Lizzie Seal
University of Sussex
Race, racialisation and the death penalty in England and Wales, 1900–1965
£117,700

Dr Kim Sloan
British Museum
Enlightenment architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections
£332,552

Dr George Tsoulas
University of York 
Plural mass nouns as a window to linguistic variation
£134,267

Dr Sethina Watson
University of York
The register of Walter de Gray, Archbishop of York, 1215–1255
£152,339

Dr Keith Wilkinson
University of Winchester 
A high-resolution chronology for early humans in the Southern Caucasus
£387,792

Social Sciences

Professor Stephen Case
Loughborough University
Exploring the language barrier to engagement in youth justice assessment interview practice
£111,912

Professor Richard Evershed
University of Bristol 
Peopling the green Sahara? A multi-proxy approach to reconstructing the ecological and demographic history of the Saharan Holocene
£393,421

Dr Peter Flugel
SOAS, University of London
Jaina prosopography: monastic lineages, networks and patronage
£284,410

Professor Robin Goodwin
University of Warwick
Psychological sequelea of the Great Miyagi Earthquake: a four-wave study
£62,129

Dr Tim Jay
Sheffield Hallam University
How does game-based learning promote children’s mathematical cognition?
£128,978

Professor Vera Kempe
Abertay University 
Literacy acquisition in situations of dialect exposure
£151,091

Dr Alex Mesoudi
University of Exeter
The cultural evolution of social hierarchy: an experimental investigation
£217,042

Professor Charles Watkins
University of Nottingham
British amateur topographical art and landscape in Northwest Italy, 1835–1915
£141,462

Dr Benjamin Yong
University of Hull
Legal advice to legislatures – supporting a professionalising legislature
£68,567

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