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A Royal Society Research Professor since 2009, Sir Andrew is a mathematician working in number theory, and is best known for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.There are now a great many very talented young mathematicians in number theory, and particularly in the area of number theory in which I am working. However it seems to happen that periodically roadblocks appear that seem insurmountable and I most enjoy the challenge of tackling these questions, which most people tend to avoid. This is what I have been doing with the support of the Royal Society."
Mathematical Institute, The University of Oxford
51.76086589
-1.263862308
Sir Andrew Wiles
OX2 6GG
Research Professorships
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"Chemical waste is bad for our environment, and we currently do not have a good way to dispose of it. Reducing the waste produced from chemical manufacturing will also reduce the cost of the products themselves, making it easier for developing nations to gain access to much-needed things like medicines.My research aims to increase the selectivity of catalysts which will decrease waste products by reducing the number of ways the reacting molecules can approach the catalyst"
School of Chemistry, University of Southampton
50.93410146
-1.395714506
Dr Lynda Brown
SO17 1BJ
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
Synthesis within nanopores: enhancing the selectivity of organic reactions
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"This Fellowship has allowed me to set up an independent research group with a predominantly blue-skies research focus. As plant research is increasingly becoming an industrial focus, blue-skies academic plant science is under significant funding pressure. The final years of my URF partially alleviate this pressure by allowing us the freedom to move several of our key fundamental findings from plant cells into cell types that are considered more conventional models in biomedical sciences. Without URF funding this journey into more interdisciplinary science would be much more difficult to achieve."
University of Edinburgh
55.92336035
-3.178393765
Dr Steven Spoel
EH9 3BF
University Research Fellowships
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Professor Margaret MacLean and her group study the chemicals that cause pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and are investigating why women get the disease more than men. PAH occurs when the blood pressure in the lungs rises and the pulmonary artery closes down. There is a poor prognosis with patients dying of right heart failure within a few years. Three to four-fold more women than men get PAH but the reasons for this are unknown.Professor MacLean says that a Royal Society grant "makes you feel valued as a scientist and gives you confidence to apply for other grants and schemes".
University of Glasgow
55.87175863
-4.288360922
Professor Margaret MacLean
G12 8QQ
Wolfson Fellowship
Effect of oestrogen on the serotonin system: role in the development of PAH
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"I study the physics of soft condensed matter. This term refers to a range of substances from polymer solutions (such as engine oil), emulsions (such as mayonnaise) and foams (such as shaving cream)".The goal of my research is to use these tools to predict flow behaviour for quite wide classes of soft materials. The ability to predict flow behaviour of soft matter has impact on processing capability in ceramics, plastics, and the food industries; on design of products to meet consumer expectations in terms of shelf-life, and in-use ‘feel’; on the design of display and other devices that use liquid crystals; and on understanding biological soft matter (such as the lubricants in our joints, or the ever-renewing‘cytoskeleton’ which gives shape to the cells in our body)."
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
52.20999055
0.101393789
Professor Michael Cates
CB3 0WA
Research Professorships
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My research focuses on the treatment of psychiatric disorders, and particularly the debilitating mental symptoms that currently available drugs do not treat. Because developing new drugs can take years, I am working with Schering Plough on process innovation to improve the predictive validity of preclinical research, a key step in drug development.The aim of this project is to develop new tests which will enable more rapid identification and progression of drugs that will improve symptoms of diseases such as schizophrenia. This is especially important since current medications do not alleviate some of the most serious symptoms of the illness.
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews and Schering Plough
56.33908828
-2.79463412
Professor Verity Brown
KY16 9JP
Industry Fellowship
New approaches to the treatment of Schizophrenia
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My research is focused on understanding the unique relationships between the mother, placenta and foetus which govern pregnancy success and lifelong health.The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme appealed to me as it offers the option of claiming back time spent on parental/caring responsibilities. As the primary care-giver for our daughter, this enables me to balance my personal life with my ambition for a successful, independent research career.
University of Cambridge
52.20510442
0.116179272
Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri
CB2 1TN
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
Materno-fetal resource allocation; altering placental endocrine function by IGF2
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6
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What support has the URF provided you in continuing to develop your research career?Probably the most important support the University Research Fellowship has given me is time. One of my primary lines of research has involved clinical isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis. Building up such a collection takes time and wouldn't have been possible in a standard duration three year grant. Now, it's all starting to come together. I have five PhD students, an ERC grant, and my URF has given me the freedom to keep up my work on meerkats and birds as well as bacteria.
University of Oxford
51.76086589
-1.263862308
Dr Ashleigh Griffin
OX2 6GG-2
University Research Fellowships
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"My research on the evolution of cyanobacteria has shown that photosynthesis first evolved in freshwater environments around 2.7 billion years ago. Cyanobacteria colonised marine environments independently at different times in Earth's history. As they did so they had a profound impact on the Earth's global nutrient cycles such as nitrogen, carbon and oxygen. My research looks at whether such evolutionary innovations played a role in regulating the global environment and past climatic events".The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship brings with it high expectations, and of course I want to fulfil them. But if I didn’t love challenges, I probably wouldn’t have got the Fellowship in the first place.”
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
51.45650192
-2.606106851
Dr Patricia Sanchez Baracaldo
BS8 1BF
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
Co-evolution of life and the biosphere
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9
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I had previously held a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) fellowship for three years, and I suppose by the time that ended I had already been "bitten by the fellowship bug"! The URF scheme was particularly attractive, partly because of the long-term support it offers for at least five years, but also because of the opportunity to become part of the Royal Society "family".'The key defining moment since taking up my URF would have to be addressing the world's media at a press conference in Vienna in 2013. I told them about our new study into how aviation turbulence was becoming stronger because of climate change. An independent media expert has estimated that one billion people worldwide heard about this research, which is very gratifying.”
University of Reading
51.45762696
-0.945635862
Professor Paul D. Williams
RG6 6AH
University Research Fellowships
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"This prestigious award has provided a welcome recognition of our team's work over the last decade, and facilitates our efforts to attract the best researchers and engage collaboratively with the best universities in the world".Professor Davies' research focuses on terahertz frequency science and engineering. Terahertz wave radiation frequencies lie between the microwave and mid-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and have been difficult to access and exploit because of a lack of sources and detectors. However the last 10 to 15 years have provided remarkable progress in this field leading to the development of pulsed and continuous terahertz radiation sources, including much work by Professor Davies and his team.Looking forward Professor Davies hopes to exploit terahertz frequency and its wide range of uses, “We hope to establish techniques that could help with investigating the physics of materials such as graphene. Other techniques could be used to help us understand the structure and function of biomolecular systems and provide insights into the control of enzyme activity.”
School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds
53.80796092
-1.553329513
Professor Giles Davies
LS2 9JT
Wolfson Fellowship
Semiconductor and biological nanotechnology, and applications to healthcare
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"I got to work alongside experts with a broad range of knowledge across numerous pharmaceutical technologies and processes, and I found working on key issues currently being faced by industry an invaluable experience. Importantly, the fellowship also afforded me the time to focus on my research.The fellowship enabled me to develop my network of collaborators and brought my work to the forefront of the field. The resulting reputation growth has led to us engaging in research projects with industrial partners, and forging strong links with key academic groups in the field. It has been an important stepping-stone, allowing me to tailor my teaching with the most up-to-date knowledge."
Dr Gavin Andrews, Industry Fellow at AstraZeneca and Queen's University Belfast
54.58559096
-5.942619471
Dr Gavin Andrews
BT9 7BL
Industry Fellowship
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Dr Coates has worked part-time since returning from maternity leave in 2008, and her teaching and administrative commitments have heavily impacted on the amount of time she could spend in the lab at a time when her research was making significant developments. This led Dr Coates to apply for a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship, which relieves scientists from teaching and administrative duties in order to focus on their research for up to a year."This is an amazing opportunity for the research in our lab. It is fantastic to be back at the bench with the rest of my team, fully immersed in our research on a day-to-day basis. This Fellowship has already given me time to carry out exciting new experiments, to learn new skills from my PhD student, to draft papers and to cement collaborations with academics in new fields, and (hopefully) with industry too. Importantly, it also gives me the time I need to sit down and really think about science again. That is invaluable".
School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
52.45141065
-1.930047398
Dr Juliet Coates
B15 2TT
Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
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13
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How have you made use of the flexibility of the scheme and how has it been beneficial to you?"The URF can be moved at any point to any university or research institute in the UK. This flexibility has been hugely valuable and I've moved my URF twice now to somewhere that would benefit my scientific research and my career. I've also taken 6 months paternity leave during my URF; my partner and I split the parental leave 50/50. The Royal Society have completely supported of this. For both maternity and paternity leave, the duration of the fellowship is simply extended accordingly. They are similarly supportive of part-time working, again extending the fellowship to compensate."
University of Cambridge
52.20510442
0.116179272
Dr Toby Cubitt
CB2 1TN-2
University Research Fellowships
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14
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"Being associated with the Royal Society gave other people confidence in my abilities and showed them that I had a track record. It ultimately gave me the credibility of a prestigious fellowship."
Cardiff University
51.489014
-3.179717
Professor Karen Wilson
CF10 3AT
Industry Fellowship
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15
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Matt leads a research group at the University of Liverpool that works to both enhance the fundamental knowledge of physical and chemical properties of new materials, and to improve the performance of materials for applications including energy storage and generation, communications and catalysis. Underlying the search for new materials is the basic challenge of predicting which combinations of atoms are stable enough to be isolated as materials – recently we’ve reported a new approach that allows the computational prediction of stable compositions which are subsequently made experimentally in the laboratory. It is this type of basic research advance that the Professorship is enabling.
Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool
53.40507106
-2.962497588
Professor Matt Rosseinsky
L69 7ZD
Research Professorships
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16
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"We already have good reason to suspect that the global carbon cycle and changes in the atmospheric concentration of heat trapping 'greenhouse' gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) play a pivotal role in past climatic changes. This is only the tip of the investigative iceberg however, and the key task for scientists is to find out what causes atmospheric CO2 concentration to change in the first place.My key research tool is a computer model of the Earth system which accounts for ocean circulation, sea-ice and greenhouse warming, as well as the cycling of carbon and nutrients within the ocean and exchanges with the underlying deep-sea sediments. Computer modelling allows me to piece together all the different types of evidence available and develop explanations for past climatic changes."
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
51.45650192
-2.606106851
Dr Andy Ridgwell
BS8 1BF-2
University Research Fellowships
Understanding climate change and the controls on atmospheric CO2
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1
17
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"As a husband and father I am very fortunate to have received the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. My wife and I are both neuroscience researchers at the University of Cambridge and are as committed to maintaining a stable and balanced family environment as we are to our careers. Too often, however, one comes at the expense of the other. Fortunately, this fellowship has given us the flexibility to fully engage in our work when most demanding while providing us with the time necessary for a healthy family life. As such, we have both managed, at this critical stage of our career, to continue our research at an international level without feeling that our responsibilities as parents have been unduly strained, allowing us to balance a fruitful scientific career with a fun family life."
Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge
52.19867323
0.12279534
Dr John Apergis-Schoute
CB2 1PD
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
Neural circuits linking sleep, feeding and emotion
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18
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"The Royal Society University Research Fellowship allowed me to pursue independent research and collaborations in an early stage of my academic life and granted me the opportunity to focus more on my own research ideas, which was very vital for the success of this research."One of his main research themes are graphene based membranes and their applications. A group of scientists at The University of Manchester led by Nair have built on previous research on graphene-oxide membranes developed at the National Graphene Institute, developing graphene-oxide membranes which are able to sieve common salts out of salty water, making it safe to drink. This research has attracted significant media coverage, as this technology has the potential to revolutionise water filtration across the world, in particular in countries which cannot afford large scale desalination plants.
University of Manchester
53.47630936
-2.232124867
Professor Rahul Raveendran Nair
M13 9PL
University Research Fellowships
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1
20
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As a Microscopy Facility Manager responsible for supporting academic work and running the university microscopy facility, Dr Laissue applied for this fellowship to allow him to pursue a personal research project in a fascinating field with a huge potential for impact.The fellowship has given him the opportunity to use unique equipment at his industry partner's facility, giving him industrial experience and allowing him to focus on instrument development.
University of Essex and Cairn Research in Kent
51.31138651
0.918592812
Dr Philippe Laissue
ME13 8UP
Industry Fellowship
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