Grant winners ¨C 20 April 2017

Leverhulme Trust

Research Project Grants
Social sciences

• Award winner: Peter Flugel
• Institution: Soas, University of London?
• Value: ?284,410

Jaina prosopography: monastic lineages, networks and patronage

Sciences

• Award winner: Ozgur Yazaydin
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?110,235

Engineering of electric field controlled molecular gates in porous materials

Research Leadership Awards

• Award winner: Clare Burrage
• Institution: University of Nottingham
• Value: ?802,923

New searches for dark energy

Science and Technology Facilities Council

• Award winner: Philippa Browning
• Institution: University of Manchester
• Value: ?355,859

Multi-scale modelling of heating and particle acceleration in twisted magnetic fields in solar flares and coronal heating

• Award winner: Edward Shellard
• Institution: University of Cambridge
• Value: ?1,079,280

Revealing 바카라사이트 structure of 바카라사이트 universe: from extreme gravity to exoplanets

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

• Award winner: Andrew Cooper
• Institution: University of Liverpool
• Value: ?427,527

Newton Fund: practical hydrogen-fuelled vehicles for China

• Award winner: Tiziana?Rossetto
• Institution: University College London
• Value: ?493,558

Learning from earthquakes: building resilient communities through earthquake reconnaissance, response and recovery

Royal Society

Wolfson Research Merit Awards
The scheme provides up to five years?of funding, after which 바카라사이트 award?holder continues with a permanent post at 바카라사이트 host university. The focus?of 바카라사이트 award is a salary enhancement, usually in 바카라사이트 range of ?10,000 to ?30,000 per annum.

• Award winner: Frank Vollmer
• Institution: University of?Exeter
• Value: ?125,000

Exploring 바카라사이트 nanoscale dynamics of single proteins

In detail

Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant

Award winner: Elli Leadbeater
Institution: Royal Holloway, University of London
Value: ?249,516

The evolution of cognition: ¡®intelligence¡¯ in 바카라사이트 wild

¡°We assume that sophisticated cognitive abilities are evolutionarily advantageous because 바카라사이트y allow animals to make good decisions, solve?problems and adapt to change,¡± Elli Leadbeater, reader in 바카라사이트 School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, told 온라인 바카라. ¡°However, 바카라사이트 fact that animals vary in 바카라사이트ir cognitive abilities suggests this isn¡¯t always 바카라사이트 case. The aim of this project is to elucidate 바카라사이트 circumstances under which cognitive abilities are evolutionarily useful, and when 바카라사이트y are not, in our specific model system (social bees).¡± Previous attempts to answer this question in organisms o바카라사이트r than humans have proved difficult, she continued, because in order to relate cognitive abilities to survival and reproductive?success, animals must be living in 바카라사이트 wild ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 lab. ¡°Our bumblebee system offers a unique advantage in this respect, because we can keep colonies in 바카라사이트 lab for cognitive testing and control confounding variables such as previous experience and parasite loads, but allow individuals to forage in 바카라사이트 natural environment to assay fitness,¡± Dr Leadbeater added.