Fellowships and scholarships for researchers
Fellowships and scholarships for early career and established researchers announced
11 November 2016
Today
recipients of three schemes supporting researchers from
early career researchers to established researchers have
been announced.
Rutherford Foundation
Trust
The Rutherford Foundation Trust awards postdoctoral fellowships and international PhD scholarships to outstanding emerging researchers. The following awards have been announced:
2-year New Zealand Postdoctoral
Fellowships:
Dr Carolyn
Boulton, Victoria University of Wellington, for
research entitled: Slipping fast and slow: How sediments
influence Hikurangisubduction zone seismic
hazard
Dr Matthew Cowan,
University of Canterbury, for research entitled: Materials
and process engineering for low-energy olefin/paraffin
separations
Dr Francis Hunter,
University of Auckland, for research entitled: Using
Next-Generation Genetics to Understand Drug Resistance in
Breast Cancer
Dr Benjamin Mallett,
University of Auckland, for research entitled: Shining a
light on the interface: Spectroscopy of superconductor
thin-film meta-materials
Dr Nicholas
Monahan, Victoria University of Wellington, for
research entitled: Does coherence make organic solar cells
more efficient?
3-year International PhD
Scholarships (a
grant-in-aid):
Mr Maxim
Jeffs, University of California, Berkeley, for
research entitled: “Homological Mirror Symmetry”
3-year Cambridge Rutherford Memorial PhD
Scholarship to:
Ms Efthimia
Christoforou, University of Cambridge, for research
entitled: The role of placental endocrine function in
determining the health of the mother and her
offspring”
Ms Jessica Hiscox,
University of Cambridge, for research entitled: The impact
of poverty focused initiatives on wildlife perception and
human-wildlife conflict
Read more here: http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/programmes/funds/rutherford-foundation/news/
Rutherford Discovery
Fellowships
Rutherford
Discovery Fellowships are to support development of New
Zealand’s future research leaders. The following
fellowships have been announced:
Dr
Baptiste Auguie, Victoria University of Wellington,
for research entitled: Light and chirality at the
nanoscale.
Dr Federico Baltar,
University of Otago, for research entitled: What makes
‘normal’ normal? Alternative microbial carbon and energy
acquisition mechanisms in the neglected high-nutrient
low-chlorophyll (HNLC) areas of the
ocean.
Dr Adam Hartland,
University of Waikato, for research entitled: Unlocking the
karst record: quantitative proxies of past climates from
speleothems.
Dr Huw Horgan,
Victoria University of Wellington, for research entitled:
Accelerating Ice – The Role of Water in the Flow of Ice
Sheets.
Dr Yoshihiro Kaneko, GNS
Science, for research entitled: Structural controls on
earthquake behaviour in the Hikurangi subduction
mega-thrust.
Dr Jenny Malmstrom,
The University of Auckland, for research entitled: Signals
to cells when and where they are needed.
Dr
Duncan McMillan, University of Canterbury, for
research entitled: Biomembrane nanotechnologies for
exploring pathogen respiratory adaptation to identify and
develop novel antibiotics.
Dr Jeremy
Owen, Victoria University of Wellington, for
research entitled: Harnessing the biosynthetic potential of
uncultivated microbes for the discovery of new
antibiotics.
Dr Nicole Roughan,
The University of Auckland, for research entitled:
Jurisprudence without Borders: A Pluralist Theory of
Law.
Dr Virginia Toy, University
of Otago, for research entitled: "Weaving the Earth's Weak
Seams: Manifestations and mechanical consequences of rock
fabric evolution in active faults and shear zones.
Read more here: http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/2016/11/11/rutherford-discovery-fellows-2016/
James Cook Research
Fellowships
James Cook Research Fellowships support experienced researchers to pursue their research full-time for at least two years. The following fellowships have been announced:
Physical Sciences:
Professor Timothy Naish, Victoria
University of Wellington, for research entitled: The
contribution of the Antarctic ice sheet to past and future
sea-level rise and implications for New
Zealand
Health Sciences: Professor Debbie
Hay, The University of Auckland, for research
entitled: Medicines and mechanisms of
migraine
Engineering Sciences and Technologies:
Professor Peter Smith, Victoria University
of Wellington, for research entitled: Analysis and design of
millimeter wave communication systems
Read more here: http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/programmes/funds/cook-fellowships/news/
ENDS