Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellowship Expression of Interest Application Form 2017 This form must be completed for Expressions of Interest (EoIs) to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Fellowship scheme being 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 (s.a.wiley@bham.ac.uk) by 17:00 (UK time) on 27 April 2017. APPLICANT INFORMATION Name of Applicant Email address Insert name Insert Email Address ELIGIBILITY PhD year and month 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 & Insert reference number Insert reference number Insert reference number Physical Economic & Social Insert reference number Insert reference number Insert reference number Life & Insert reference number Insert reference number Insert reference number Environmental Medical & Dental 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
Research Themes and Reference Numbers Arts & Humanities AH1 AH2 AH3 Corpus linguistics, corpus-based discourse analysis and literary stylistics Migration, transnational families and mission War, conflict and state building in Modern Central and East Central Europe Engineering & Physical 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 Co1 Co2 Welfare regimes Disrupted democracy. A critical political economy perspective on everyday vulnerability, social movements and crises of democratic legitimacy in Southern Europe
Co3 Co4 Co5 Co6 Co7 The emotional aspects of economic and social decision making (using behavioural economics experiments Political campaigning governance of renewable natural resources in developing countries 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. The brain and solving the puzzle of the senses Medical & Dental MDS1 MDS2 MDS3 MDS4 MDS5 MDS6 MDS7 MDS8 MDS9 MDS10 MDS11 MDS12 MDS13 MDS14 MDS15 MDS16 MDS17 MDS18 MDS19 MDS20 MDS21 MDS22 MDS23 MDS24 MDS25 MDS26 MDS27 MDS28 MDS29 MDS30 Aberrant chromatin programming in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Androgen excess and metabolic disease Autophagy in health and disease using human stem cells B cell differentiation and vaccination Basic mechanism of chromatin programming by signalling responsive and constitutive transcription factors during blood cell specification Cancer metabolism and hypoxia Cell signalling and cancer Central nervous system injury and repair (spinal cord injury, eye injury and traumatic brain injury) Effective interventions in Alzheimer's Disease e-learning approaches in dentistry Functional genomics of microbes Human Sulfation pathways and nucleotide signalling Hypoxia and pancreatic beta cell function Immune Ageing in vivo confocal endomicroscopy and magnification endoscopy Infectious diseases mediated by bacterial and fungal pathogens Inflammation biology (stromal biology, endothelial biology, leukocyte trafficking, rheumatoid arthritis) Microbial cell surfaces and their interactions with the host Molecular characterisation of uterine and ovarian cancer for prognosis and therapy using DNA repair markers Musculoskeletal Disease and Frailty New mechanism of improving radioiodine treatment of thyroid and other tumours NMR and metabolism Oestrogen metabolism and endocrine-related cancers Oligodendrocyte / Myelin formation and repair Oncogene addiction through small molecule inhibition of specific transcription factors as a treatment strategy for leukaemia Pathogenesis of Pituitary Tumours Regulation of DNA replication and DNA damage by ubiquitin and SUMO Small modifier biology (ubiquitin and SUMO) in DNA replication and DNA repair The Microbiome and metagenomics Thyroid disease and obesity
MDS31 MDS32 Understanding the hormonal determinants of human adipose tissue function in vivo Vitamin D-deficiency and inflammatory disease