Early Career Fellowships 2013

Sciences Dr Christos Anastopoulos University of Sheffield Understanding the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) Dr Eline van Asperen Liverpool John Moores University Establishing fungal spores as a proxy for herbivore impacts on ‘natural’ forests Dr Nicolas Barry University of Warwick The design, chemistry and applications of carborane-containing nanoparticles Dr Albert Bartók-Pártay University of Cambridge High-throughput materials modelling from first principles Dr Ulrike Bauer University of Bristol Plants in full armour: mechanical defence at the plant surface Dr Alex Best University of Sheffield Co-evolutionary cycles in host–parasite interactions Dr Luke Boulter University of Edinburgh The migration of progenitor cells through solid organs and cancers Dr Alexander Buell University of Cambridge Divide and study: molecular scale understanding of protein aggregation Dr Eric Dykeman University of York Physical virology: a novel approach to virus assembly and evolution Dr Stefanie Frank University of Kent Engineering bacterial microcompartments for recombinant protein production Dr Martin Gradhand University of Bristol Spin-dependent transport in superconductors Dr Mark Greenaway University of Nottingham Using two-dimensional crystal stacks to transform high-frequency electronics and atom chips Dr Suzanne Imber University of Leicester Rough winds do shake the magnetosphere of Mercury Dr Roeland de Kat University of Southampton Feathers on the wing: understanding aeromechanic performance of feathered wings Dr Tonya Lander University of Oxford Pollination in human-modified landscapes: the pollinator’s perspective Dr Jan Lellmann University of Cambridge Regularisation strategies for global optimality in variational imaging Dr Lourdes Lopez-Merino Brunel University Posidonia as environmental archive: long-term ecology and conservation views Dr Alison MacLeod Royal Holloway, University of London Annually-resolved abrupt climate variability across the North Atl