Fellowship awards
Full details of fellowships can be found on our on-line Research Grants and Fellowships application - Grants on the Web. This provides information about current Research Grants and Fellowships supported by NERC.
Please note that recent Grants and Fellowships will not appear on GOTW until they have actually started.
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All awards that started in 2011 are shown below:
Advanced Fellow
9 applications to the value of £3,489,017 were funded.
Dr H Weller
University of Reading
Adaptive Mesh Modelling of the Global Atmosphere
Dr A Ozgul
Imperial College London
Demographic and phenotypic signals of impending population change
Dr JC Laube
University of East Anglia
FOREnSic Innovations to constrain GreenHouse Trace gas budgets
Dr CJ Warren
Open University
From subduction to sand: Quantifying the balance between tectonic and surface processes during early continental collision and UHP rock exhumation
Dr I Gudelj
University of Exeter
Mathematical models of experimental microbial evolution
Dr E Hawkins
University of Reading
PREDICTING THE CLIMATE OF THE COMING DECADE
Dr D Childs
University of Sheffield
Structured demography, stochasticity and selection in free-living populations.
Dr P Pogge von Strandmann
University of Oxford
Testing the control of weathering on CO2 - evidence from extreme climate events
Dr HM Williams
Durham University
The oxygen fugacity of core segregation and the redox evolution of the mantle: constraints from iron and chromium isotopes
Postdoctoral Fellow
34 applications to the value of £9,128,657 were funded.
Dr C Davies
University of Leeds
A Multidisciplinary Study of Thermal Core-Mantle Coupling in Geodynamo Models
Mr J Verdon
University of Bristol
An integrated geophysical, geodetic, geomechanical and geochemical study of CO2 storage in subsurface reservoirs
Dr DB Kemp
Open University
Astronomical forcing and rapid climate change in the Jurassic
Dr TW Pike
University Of Lincoln
Can birds use chemical cues to assess potential mates?
Dr G Swann
University of Nottingham
Changes in the North Pacific Ocean biological pump over the last glacial-interglacial cycle
Dr P Goodwin
University of Cambridge
Constraining the carbon cycle during glacial-interglacial CO2 change
Mr KR Lohse
University of Edinburgh
Deciphering the genomic signatures of speciation and introgression
Dr B Hoogakker
University of Oxford
Deep ocean oxygen concentrations and efficiency of the biological pump
Dr M Hermoso
University of Oxford
Developing a mechanistic understanding of stable isotopes in coccolithophores: a culture and field approach
Dr AJ King
University of Cambridge
Does diversity deliver? How variation in individual knowledge and behavioural traits impact on the performance of animal groups
Dr S Arndt
University of Bristol
Dynamics of the Earth System In REcovery ('DESIRE')
Dr J Rowntree
University of York
Ecological consequences of genetic variation: does genetic variation in a keystone parasitic plant species drive community response to infection?
Dr KM Edgar
Cardiff University
Environmental Change and Biotic Impacts of a Transient Greenhouse Warming Event in the Middle Eocene
Dr M Archetti
University of Oxford
Evolution of cooperation without iterations and without relatedness: strategic behaviour in public goods games and 2-person games
Dr S Hunt
University College London
Experimental determination of mantle rheology
Dr MJT Timmermans
Imperial College London
Female limited Batesian mimicry: epistasis and the path to perfection
Dr J Hammond
Imperial College London
Imaging the African Superplume
Dr SJ Butler
University of East Anglia
Improving the targeted delivery of conservation management to halt biodiversity loss
Dr IA Rahman
University of Birmingham
Investigating the Assembly of an Animal Body Plan: The Early Evolution of Echinoderms
Dr G Allen
The University of Manchester
Novel High-resolution Trace Gas Retrievals from Aircraft in Support of Regional Air Quality Modelling
Dr Z Shi
University of Birmingham
Novel approaches to the evaluation of iron and phosphorus availability in dust deposited to the oceans
Mr S Livingstone
University of Sheffield
PREDICTING AND INVESTIGATING SUBGLACIAL LAKES OF THE FORMER BRITISH AND FENNOSCANDIAN ICE SHEETS
Dr DR Davies
Imperial College London
Pulsing Mantle Plumes: Causes and Geological Consequences
Dr N Vriend
University of Cambridge
Segregation in geophysical mass flows
Dr C Walling
University of Edinburgh
The evolution of female mating preferences: quantifying the benefits
Dr AG Turner
University of Reading
The future of the Indian monsoon
Dr RS Sansom
University of Bath
The impact of death on the Tree of Life: assessing the relationship between taphonomy and phylogeny
Dr R Whitlock
University of Liverpool
The role of adaptation in determining resistance to climatic change in ecological communities
Dr AE Hickman
University of Essex
The role of pigments in phytoplankton biogeography and evolution
Dr KA Giles
University College London
The spin-up of the Arctic Ocean
Dr D Brayshaw
University of Reading
Understanding past, present and future climate change in the 'Greater Mediterranean' area: Building confidence in uncertain climate projections
Mr ETA Mitchard
University of Edinburgh
Using satellite data to monitor REDD+ projects: developing methodologies and error estimation for Africa
Dr S Watt
University of Southampton
Volcanic flank collapse: diversity of behaviour, hazard generation and controls on volcano evolution
Dr TAR Price
University of Liverpool
Why females mate once: from genes to populations