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Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers 2009

Published 2009-03-29


On February 5th, the STINT board decided on this years grants within the program Institutional Grants for Younger Researchers. A total of twelve grants has been awarded to a total cost of SEK 12 600 000.

The result is as follows:

Gueorgui Gueorguiev, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Roberto Rivelino de Melo Moreno, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil, within the project ”Developing a flexible theoretical approach for designing inherently nanostructured and cluster-assembled materials”

Olga Göransson, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Kei Sakamoto, Dundee University, United Kingdom, within the project ”LKB1 signalling pathways and their role in adipose tissue – implications for type 2 diabetes”

Andreas Kassler, Department of Computer Science, Karlstad university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Stefano Avallone, Università di Napoli, Italy and Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA, within the project”P2PMesh – Joint Channel Assignment, Routing and Overlay Management for Wireless Mesh Networks”

Katarina Larsen, Division of History of Science and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Robert J.W. Tijssen, University of Leiden, the Netherlands and Paola Criscuolo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, within the project ”International R & D networks: a project analysing innovation and science across regions and organisations”

Johan Lindquist, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Biao Xiang, University of Oxford, United Kingdom and Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore, within the project ”Opening the black box of migration: Brokers and the organization of transnational mobility”

Åsa Mackenzie, Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Louis-Eric Trudeau and Jose Alfredo Mendez, University of Montreal, Canada, within the project ”Behavioural genetics of neurocircuitries relevant to addiction, mood disorder and schizophrenia”

Roland Mathieu, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Erik Wahlstrøm, Norges teknik-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norway, within the project ”Magnetotransport in strongly correlated electron systems”

Peter Nilsson, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation Christina Sigurdson, University of California San Diego, USA, within the project ”Prion strain competition, organotropism of prion strains and strain diversity of prion disease in cervids probed by luminescent conjugated polythiophenes”

Berit Olofsson, Organic Chemistry, Stockholm university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Luiz F. Silva Jr, University of Sao Paolo, Brasilien, within the project ”Application of hypervalent iodine chemistry in asymmetric synthesis”,

Åsa Sjöling, Department of Microbiology and immunologi, University of Gothenburg, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with John Klena, US Naval Medical Research Unit-3, Egypten, within the project ”World wide molecular epidemiology of ETEC; Determination of bacterial genetic background and transfer of virulence plasmids in correlation to virulence, patient group, spread and seasonality”,

Henrik Tehler, Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, Lund university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Dewald Van Niekirk, North-West University, South Africa and Andries Jordaan, University of the Free State, South Africa, within the project ”South-north disaster risk reduction network – Towards trans-disciplinary research and education for disaster risk reduction”,

Charlotta Turner, Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala university, SEK 1 050 000 for cooperation with Nelson Torto, Rhodes University, South Africa and Luke Chimuka, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, within the project ”Towards sustainable analytical technologies for value addition to biomass”.

 
 
 
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