Global Engagements 2014

In 2014, the single Global Engagements application round resulted in the following 16 awards to be made.

• Stefan Maier and Emiliano Cortés (Physics), Plasmonic Nanoantennas: Bottom-up vs Top-down Approaches (24 months, £14,820). To engage with Baptiste Auguié and Alejandro Fainstein (both Instituto Balseiro, Argentina) and Eric Le Ru (Victoria University, New Zealand)
• Anthony Kucernak (Chemistry), New catalysts to supplant precious metals (12 months, £9,150). To engage with Thiago Lopes and Daniel Malko (both of University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• James Wilton-Ely (Chemistry), on the detection of carbon monoxide (12 months, £2,500). To engage with Ramón Martínez-Máñez (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
• Vincenzo Giannini (Physics), Extreme nonlinear effects in plasmonics nanoantennas (12 months, £4,500). To engage with Tadzio Levato (Institute of Physics, Czech Republic) and Gerg Korn (University of Pisa and INFN-Pisa, Italy)
• Olivier Pardo (Surgery and Cancer), Metabonomic, proteomic and genomic cross-platform comparative analysis of EGFR-driven and non-driven non-small cell lung cancer (24 months, £18,700). To engage with Yulan Wang and Huiru Tang (both of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) and Xiu Nie (Union Hospital, China)
• Laetitia Duval (Infectious Disease Epidemiology), Exploring the Health and Demographic Surveillance Data in Burkina Faso (24 months, £20,000). To engage with Innocent Valea and Karim Derra (both of Centre Muraz, Burkina Faso) and François-Charles Wolff (Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques, France)
• Natalie Stingelin (Materials), Advancing and Characterising Novel Electronic/Ionic Conductors for Bioelectronic Applications (12 months, £7,670). To engage with Paul Meredith (University of Queensland, Australia)
• Fang Xie (Materials), Nanostructured Material and Germanium Device Fabrication: A Global Engagement between Imperial College and the Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (24 months, £20,000). To engage with Anthony Centeno (Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology, Malaysia)
• Nick Jones (Mathematics), India Biomathematics Bridge (12 months, £5,000). To engage with Manoj Gopalkrishnan (Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, India), Sumeet Agarwal (IIT Delhi Electrical Engineering, India) and Mukund Thattai (National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India)
• Jenny Nelson (Centre for Plastic Electronics), Advanced characterisation techniques for probing buried interfaces and film morphology in organic electronic devices (24 months, £12,000). To engage with Roberto Mendonca Faria (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Jeremy Woods (Earth Science and Engineering), Assessing and guiding sustainability in Brazilian sugar cane production (24 months, £11,082). To engage with Carlos Clemente Cerri (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• George  Christophides (Life Sciences), A lab system to study Plasmodium vivax transmission and interactions with the vector (12 months, £0). To engage with Jayme Souza Neto (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil)
• Cristina Banks-Leite (Life Sciences), Ecosystem multifunctionality under environmental change (12 months, £10,120). To engage with Luiz Antonio Martinelli (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• J Roy Taylor (Physics), Optical nonlinearity in waveguides and substrates containing graphene and graphene-like materials (24 months, £12,000). To engage with Christiano J.S. de Matos (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil)
• Nicholas Hopkinson (NHLI), Evaluation of chronic hemidiaphragm dysfunction and effect of surgical intervention (24 months, £11,700).  To engage with Pedro Caruso (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Jon Lloyd (Life Sciences), Incorporating phylogeny into a new integrated dataset of South American tropical tree trait characteristics (24 months, £9,175). To engage with Tomas F. Domingues (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

Global Engagements 2015

In 2015, the single Global Engagements application round resulted in the following 8 awards to be made.

• Nick Long (Chemistry), MMP-Responsive Paramagnetic Nanoparticles Delineating Salvageable Ischemic Brain Tissue by Crossing Blood Brain Barrier (£5,920). To engage with Fudan University, China
• Rupert Oulton (Physics), Engineering Non-linear Optics via Metallo-Dielectric Nanostructures (£6,480). To engage with Australian National University, Australia.
• Paul Stavrinou (Physics), Travel of 11 junior researchers to attend and present at an International Symposia in Nanjing, China (£10,000). To engage with Nanjing Tech and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
• Darren Crowdy (Mathematics), Mathematical models of microstructured optical fibre (MOF) fabrication (£4,000). To engage with University of Adelaide, Australia.
• Timothy Constandinou (EEE), Neural Microsystems (£9,688). To engage with Michigan State, USA.
• Elio Riboli (School of Public Health), To host an EPIC (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition) event (£10,000). Barcelona, Spain.
• Ji-Seon Kim (Physics), Plastic Electronics with South Korea (£10,000). To engage with South Korean HEIs, South Korea.
• Jai Li (Surgery and Cancer), Microbiomics (£3,608). To engage with the Mayo Clinic, USA.