International funding award winners announced

Congratulations to all FAPESP-Bath and Accelerating International Research Collaboration award winners!

In this year’s FAPESP-Bath funding call we have funded three projects. The lucky winners will be collaborating with colleagues from University of Sao Paulo on the following projects:

• Dr Pedro Estrela (Electronic & Electrical Engineering) will be developing novel biosensor devices for improved cancer diagnosis.
• Dr Jonathan Evans (Mathematical Sciences) will be investigating a hierarchical set of model equations that describe complex viscoelastic fluids.
• Professor Stephen Payne (Computer Science) will design and pilot a series of experiments on the perception of meaning from Information Visualizations (InfoVis).

The Accelerating International Research Collaboration award winners will be working on exciting new projects with a number of our Strategic Partners:

• Dr Ana Dinerstein (Social & Policy Sciences) will be bringing together colleagues from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in a workshop to investigate how changes in the nature, perception, form and experience of labour, work and employment provide a unique window of insight into a range of interconnected phenomena responsible for the transformation of urban life and landscapes in both the Global North and the Global South.
• Professor David Galbreath (Politics, Languages & International Studies) will be hosting a sandpit at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) with the focus on identifying and developing common interests in the field of comparative regional security with colleagues from Stellenbosch University, UNAM, UNICAMP, USP, Yonsei University and Zhejiang University.
• Dr Apala Majumdar (Mathematical Sciences) will be working with colleagues from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to explore the crucially important question of “bridging scales” or “bridging the gap between microscopic molecular-level details and macroscopic experimentally observable phenomena” in liquid crystals (LCs) and more generally, partially-ordered materials.
• Dr Davide Mattia (Chemical Engineering) will be hosting a two-day workshop to broaden and accelerate our collaboration with NTU in the areas of membranes, water and sustainability.
• Professor Paul Milewski (Mathematical Sciences) will be working on a large-scale grant application on Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogues with colleagues from Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Brazil and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
• Professor Rajani Naidoo (School of Management), in collaboration with University of Stellenbosch Business School and the European Foundation for Management Development, will be hosting two workshops and a conference with a focus on the role of business schools in contributing to inclusive development in Europe and Africa.
• Dr Hugo Santiago Sanchez (Education) will be conducting an instrumental small-scale qualitative study, with colleagues from USP, into conceptualisations of pedagogical contexts and development of appropriate pedagogies using pre-service language teachers working in peripheral urban state schools in São Paulo as a case study.
• Dr Gavin Shaddick (Mathematical Sciences) will be working with colleagues from UNAM and Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Mexico to establish a continuing series of workshops in the area of statistical applied mathematics, with a view to leveraging future high-quality research, PhD exchange and research funding.
• Professor Phil Willis (Computer Science) will be bringing together three academic expert teams in graphics and vision topics from Bath, Zhejiang and Tsinghua universities, to share and extend their research knowledge and set the agenda for the future of fast-moving research in computer graphics and computer vision.