Research Themes and Reference Numbers
Expression of Interest Application Form 2017
This form must be completed for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellowshipschemebeing run by the University of Birmingham.
The document length (excluding CV) should be no more than two pages of A4, single spacing and completed in English (a 200 word count is set for the primary research topic). The document, together with a full CV should be emailed to Sally Wiley () by 17:00 (UK time) on 27 April 2017.
APPLICANT INFORMATIONName of Applicant / Insert name
Email address / Insert Email Address
Current Position & Institution / Insert
ELIGIBILITY
PhD year and month / Insert
Have you lived, worked or studied in the UK for more than 12 months in the last three years / List residance in las 3 years
RESEARCH THEMES APPLYING TO
You may choose up to 3 different research themes (Option 1 should be your first choice)
See list below
Option 1 / Option2 / Option 3
Arts & Humanities / Insert reference number / Insert reference number / Insert reference number
Engineering & Physical Sciences / Insert reference number / Insert reference number / Insert reference number
Economic & Social Sciences / Insert reference number / Insert reference number / Insert reference number
Life & Environmental Sciences / Insert reference number / Insert reference number / Insert reference number
Medical & Dental Sciences / Insert reference number / Insert reference number / Insert reference number
PROPOSED RESEARCH
Please give the title and brief outline and nature of your proposed research including its aims how it would impact on your future research career (max 200 words).
If you have chosen more than one option then you only need provide and outline for Option 1.
Title and research outline - 250 word limit
Where did you hear about this opportunity
Social Media
Nature
Science
Research Themes and Reference Numbers
Arts & HumanitiesAH1 / Corpus linguistics, corpus-based discourse analysis and literary stylistics
AH2 / Migration, transnational families and mission
AH3 / War, conflict and state building in Modern Central and East Central Europe
Engineering & Physical Sciences
EPS1 / Advanced Bond Coat Materials for improved performance of Thermal Barrier Coating Systems
EPS2 / Applied Cryptography
EPS3 / Catalysis, Chemosensors, Drug discovery
EPS4 / Computational Biology (network biology and network medicine); computational intelligence (machine learning and optimisation)
EPS5 / Computer vision approaches to Bioimage Computing
EPS6 / Determining atomic positions in nanoparticles by 3D by electron tomography to elucidate the correlation between structure and material properties
EPS7 / Development of new fuel cell/battery materials
EPS8 / Embedded Devices and Hardware Security
EPS9 / Experimental Cold Atoms Physics and Quantum Optics
EPS10 / Experimental kaon physics
EPS11 / In silico design of soft functional materials: (1) designing programmable self-assembly of colloidal matter, (2) designing metal-organic frameworks for novel applications
EPS12 / Inorganic ion exchange materials for environmental clean-up
EPS13 / Microwave synthesis of nitride and carbide nanostructure
EPS14 / Molecular and nanoscale probes in healthcare applications
EPS15 / Molecular nanotechnology based on self-assembly
EPS16 / New methodology for efficient molecular synthesis; Transition metal catalysts; Diversity-based synthesis of bioactive target molecule
EPS17 / Numerical modelling of water and wastewater treatment processes
EPS18 / Optical sensors for diagnostics and/or understanding biology of wounds.
EPS19 / Plasmonics (theoretical-driven)
EPS20 / Polymer Chemistry - Nanotechnology - Supramolecular Chemistry - Antimicrobials - Gene Delivery
EPS21 / Strongly correlated electron systems
EPS22 / Supramolecular chemistry & nanoscience for metal-based antic-cancer drugs against cancer and viral diseases
EPS23 / Supramolecular Chemistry, DNA assemblies and nanotechnology
EPS24 / Study of Higgs boson and searchers for new physics in the Higgs sector
EPS25 / Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (experimentally-driven)
EPS26 / Ultra-high temperature composites for extreme environments
Social Sciences
Co1 / Welfare regimes
Co2 / Disrupted democracy. A critical political economy perspective on everyday vulnerability, social movements and crises of democratic legitimacy in Southern Europe
Co3 / The emotional aspects of economic and social decision making (using behavioural economics experiments
Co4 / Political campaigning
Co5 / governance of renewable natural resources in developing countries
Co6 / Global Value Chain cluster around themes related to Europe’s advance manufacturing sector and long term growth, such as (1) low productivity growth in the EU; (2) the impact of technological change and innovation on new sectors and competitiveness (3) what the skills are necessary to match technological change and how can economies create jobs to secure high standard of living and (4) what processes and systems are adopted in selected manufacturing sectors to embed socio-economic-environmental sustainable management practices. Interested candidates must have a background in industrial economics, business studies, economic geography, environmental economics and innovation.
Co7 / The brain and solving the puzzle of the senses
Medical & Dental Sciences
MDS1 / Aberrant chromatin programming in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
MDS2 / Androgen excess and metabolic disease
MDS3 / Autophagy in health and disease using human stem cells
MDS4 / B cell differentiation and vaccination
MDS5 / Basic mechanism of chromatin programming by signalling responsive and constitutive transcription factors during blood cell specification
MDS6 / Cancer metabolism and hypoxia
MDS7 / Cell signalling and cancer
MDS8 / Central nervous system injury and repair (spinal cord injury, eye injury and traumatic brain injury)
MDS9 / Effective interventions in Alzheimer's Disease
MDS10 / e-learning approaches in dentistry
MDS11 / Functional genomics of microbes
MDS12 / Human Sulfation pathways and nucleotide signalling
MDS13 / Hypoxia and pancreatic beta cell function
MDS14 / Immune Ageing
MDS15 / in vivo confocal endomicroscopy and magnification endoscopy
MDS16 / Infectious diseases mediated by bacterial and fungal pathogens
MDS17 / Inflammation biology (stromal biology, endothelial biology, leukocyte trafficking, rheumatoid arthritis)
MDS18 / Microbial cell surfaces and their interactions with the host
MDS19 / Molecular characterisation of uterine and ovarian cancer for prognosis and therapy using DNA repair markers
MDS20 / Musculoskeletal Disease and Frailty
MDS21 / New mechanism of improving radioiodine treatment of thyroid and other tumours
MDS22 / NMR and metabolism
MDS23 / Oestrogen metabolism and endocrine-related cancers
MDS24 / Oligodendrocyte / Myelin formation and repair
MDS25 / Oncogene addiction through small molecule inhibition of specific transcription factors as a treatment strategy for leukaemia
MDS26 / Pathogenesis of Pituitary Tumours
MDS27 / Regulation of DNA replication and DNA damage by ubiquitin and SUMO
MDS28 / Small modifier biology (ubiquitin and SUMO) in DNA replication and DNA repair
MDS29 / The Microbiome and metagenomics
MDS30 / Thyroid disease and obesity
MDS31 / Understanding the hormonal determinants of human adipose tissue function in vivo
MDS32 / Vitamin D-deficiency and inflammatory disease