Building on the success of the previous Engineering Postdoc Collaborative Research funding rounds, the Faculty of Engineering Research Committee and the Faculty of Medicine Departments run a joint funding opportunity for postdocs.
All postdocs from the Faculty of Engineering are eligible, and in 2024, postdocs from all departments in the Faculty of Medicine were eligible to apply.
The 2024 call is now closed, the 2025 call will be announced in May next year.
This fund was introduced to give postdocs at the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine the opportunity to apply for and be awarded their own research funding, develop and deliver a collaborative research project, and take a step towards becoming independent from the research of their PI.
The fund promotes collaboration between postdocs in the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine, whereby funding applications submitted must involve a minimum of two postdocs from different departments. The postdocs taking part can be from any department within Engineering or Medicine. Unfortunately, postdocs from departments not specified above cannot take part in this funding call. To facilitate the interaction between the departments, networking events precede the proposal deadline.
To Apply:
The call for 2025 will be announced in May. The Dame Julia Higgins Guidelines from 2024 are available for reference.
Timeline:
- For the 2024 cohort, all spending and final reports are due by 31 July 2025.
For further information, please contact Anna Seabourne:
The Faculty of Engineering and Medicine proposals that have been funded in previous years:
Eng and med
Directed evolution of microorganisms for bioproduction in space
Tejasvi Shivakumar, Chemical Engineering; Akashaditya Das, Infectious Diseases ; Robert Ramirez-Garcia, Computing
Developing wearable technology to monitor pH & S. aureus dynamics for treating atopic dermatitis
Ahmad Mannan, Bioengineering; Bruno M. Gil Rosa, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Sami Ramadan, Materials
Evaluating the Effects of Intracellular Salmonella Pathobiology on Host Mechanosensing
Paul O'Sullivan, Infectious Disease; Pamela Swiatlowska, National Heart and Lung Institute
Decoding the Physics Behind Termite Nests: Toward the Biomimetic Architectural Design of Smart Ventilation Systems
Sajjad Foroughi, Earth Science and Engineering; Si Suo, Civil Engineering; Sadjad Naderi, Earth Science and Engineering
What makes battery swell: Multiscale gas detection during fast charging
Weng Jingwen, Mechanical Engineering; Bethan Davies, Materials; Ming Huang, Mechanical Engineering
Disease clusters in people with metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic disease and multimorbidity
Qi Feng, School of Public Health; Mengyun Qiao, Brain Sciences; Marek Zylinski, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Improving prediction of the artificial freezing of soils by solid carbon dioxide
Petr Nikolaev, Earth Science and Engineering; Si Suo, Civil Engineering
Developing zero-carbon circular concrete from end-of-life concrete waste through MgO activation
Feng Jianhang, Civil Engineering; Tien Dung Nguyen, Department of Chemical Engineering
Machine learning assisted ultrasonic detection for deep defect in aircraft composite laminates
Wei Fan, Mechanical Engineering; Ming Huang, Mechanical Engineering; Haolin Li, Aeronautics
Investigating lithium-ion electrode degradation through correlative microCT and FIB-SEM tomography
Tamas Zagyva, Materials; Derek Siu, Mechanical Engineering
The Development and Validation of Ultrasonic Assessment for Measuring Abdominal Adipose Tissue to Predict Metabolic Diseases
Lu Baichen, Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction; Department of Bioengineering - Faculty of Engineering, Su Yan
Utility of microprobes in understanding flight biomechanics in a malaria mosquito
Paul Huxley, Infectious Disease; Aritra Kundu, Bioengineering
Multi-Modality Digital Twin for Personalised Cardiac Diagnostics
Mengyun Qiao, Brain Sciences; Marek Zylinski, Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Qi Feng, School of Public Health
Co-designing multimodal wearable system for dementia care: a Stakeholder informed mixed-methods study
Pallavi Nair, School of Public Health; Marek Zylinski, Electrical and Electronic Engineering