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Dr Helen Chadwick awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
Congratulations to Dr Helen Chadwick from Chemistry who has been awarded an 4 year UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship.
Helen will spearhead an ambitious research initiative which will explore the interaction of gas phase hydrogen molecules with surfaces at a very fundamental level. Collisions of hydrogen with surfaces plays a pivotal role in many applications, from the formation of stars and the safe storage of rocket fuel, to hydrogen fuel cells and industrial catalysis, meaning there is great value in understanding these interactions at a molecular level.
On receiving her fellowship, Helen said: “I am really excited to have been given a Future Leaders Fellowship which will allow me to establish an ambitious research programme and attract a team to deliver it".
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Coastal flooding project secures major funding boost
Professor Harshinie Karunarathna from the Department of Civil Engineering, in association with Dr Alma Rahat, of the Department of Computer Science, and Dr John Griffin, Department of Biosciences has been awarded a grant of £307,445 from the Leverhulme Trust for the project ‘Artificial Intelligence-assisted saltmarsh flood mitigation assessment’.
The 36-month interdisciplinary project will utilise emerging AI techniques to address this need and support the design and development of sustainable nature-based coastal flood mitigation solutions (NbS) which can offer significant benefits to the environment and society.
Professor Karunarathna said: ‘’I am delighted to direct this truly interdisciplinary project funded by a prestigious Leverhulme Trust research grant".
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Physics Christmas Lecture success
The Department of Physics recently delivered another successful Christmas Lecture, with over 600 pupils from 13 schools attending over a two-day period!
Pupils were treated to exciting and inspirational talks by Professor Andy Newsham (Liverpool John Moores) on Astrophysics plus research talks by the departments’ PhD students Bill Atkins (Gravitational Wave Astronomy), Austin Kay (Semiconductors), Naeem Anwar (Particle Physics), Lewis Cole (Symmetries in Physics) and Dr Sarah Roberts (Stardust Hunting).
The annual lecture was organised by the faculty MRI team, lead by Lijie and Rhian with help from student ambassadors Mihai and Mona!
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