Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Chemical Research that are of particular relevance:
- ICURe Programme: Sodium Soli State Battery Market Exploration
Isaac Abrahams and Patrick Cullen
£35,000 Innovate UK
07-01-2025 - 31-03-2025 - Radiopaque Enhancing Polymer for Advanced Innovative Restoration
Ferranti Wong and Stellios Arseniyadis
£75,000 Barts and the London Charity
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2025 - Nanostructure of Co-Assembled Viscoelastic Protein Nanosheets for Bioemulsion Design
Ali Zarbakhsh
£1,185 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-11-2024 - 31-10-2025 - Spatiotemporal Characterisation Methods for Microwave-initiated Heterogeneous Catalysis
Michael Jie
£20,000 Royal Society
01-11-2024 - 31-10-2025 - HISUMAX - MSCA PF 2023 Abrahams/ Shaheen
Isaac Abrahams
£206,086 EPSRC - EU Scheme
02-10-2024 - 01-10-2026 - BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: Ivan Manoza
Wojciech Kopec
£18,000 Janssen Pharmaceutica (Belg)
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028 - NanoBNFix MSCA PF 2023 Zhang/Li
Peng Zhang
£206,086 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2026 - Precision Mechano-Therapeutics With Light-Driven Molecular Nanomachines Against Progressive Fibrosis
Marc Fernandez-Yague
£19,926 Royal Society
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025 - Split-site scholarship: Deepak Kumar INCN-2024-171
Christian Nielsen
£4,800 FCO Foreign & Commonwealth Office - GOV UK
16-09-2024 - 15-09-2025 - PhotoChrom MSCA PF 2023 Planas Fabrega/Martinez Bascuñana
Oriol Planas
£192,297 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-09-2024 - 31-08-2026 - Bioelectronic Sensors: From Synthesis to Device
Christian Nielsen and Dilara Gunturkun
£3,285 RSC The Royal Society of Chemistry
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2025 - ICONIC
Christian Nielsen
£462,723 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-05-2024 - 30-04-2028 - Optimizing CO2 mineralization: from atomistic detail to reactor design
Devis Di Tommaso and Gregory Chass
£349,105 Leverhulme Trust
01-05-2024 - 30-09-2027 - Deliberate imperfection: topological design of defects within graphene
Christian Nielsen
£75,566 Leverhulme Trust
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2028 - Nanoscale Multicolour Photodetectors : DNA Nanotechnology for Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures
Matteo Palma
£130,000 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025 - Nanostructure of Protein Assemblies for Bioemulsion Design
Ali Zarbakhsh
£979 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
19-03-2024 - 18-03-2025 - Resolving the collapse mechanism of responsive block copolymer brushes for controlled gene delivery
Ali Zarbakhsh
£792 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
19-03-2024 - 18-03-2025 - Contract research: Microwave-driven dry methane reforming
Michael Jie
£355,092 HUNT ENERGY ENTERPRISES, L.L.C.
01-03-2024 - 30-04-2026 - Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-On
Lei Su, Oliver Fenwick, Colin Crick and Stoichko Dimitrov
£941,955 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-03-2024 - 28-02-2027 - URF transfer Enhanced Expenses for Dr. David Ayuso
David Ayuso
£174,297 Royal Society
01-03-2024 - 30-09-2025 - URF transfer for Dr. David Ayuso
David Ayuso
£209,061 Royal Society
01-03-2024 - 30-09-2025 - Valorisation of terephtalic acid through various transformations
Stellios Arseniyadis
£20,070 Syensqo
01-03-2024 - 28-02-2025 - Developing novel antibody tools to modulate GPR20
Andrew Tinker, Arianna Fornili, Ahuva Nissim and Peter McCormick
£74,767 Barts and the London Charity
01-02-2024 - 31-03-2025 - UKRI FLF Renewal
Jan Mol
£593,003 MRC Medical Research Council
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026 - RS-NIF: Shedding Light on the Reactivity of Low-Valent Organoantimony Species: Yi-Chen Chan
Oriol Planas
£414,805 Royal Society
01-12-2023 - 30-11-2026 - RS International Exchange scheme: Tungsten-free superhard materials: Earth-abundant metal ternary borides solid solutions
Devis Di Tommaso
£11,000 Royal Society
01-11-2023 - 31-10-2025 - BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: Yu-Yuan Yang
Richard Pickersgill and Arianna Fornili
£8,600 Evotec EVOTEC (UK) LIMITED
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - INNOBA - MSCA PF 2022 Planas Fabrega/Fernandez Gonzalez
Oriol Planas
£200,512 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2025 - Neutron studies of disordered materials: linking experiment to theory: Studentship - Peter Dung Nguyen
Anthony Phillips
£36,426 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026 - Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversion
Christian Nielsen and Andrew Livingston
£62,500 CDT Cambridge Display Technology Limited
01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027 - TG: Cheminformatics and machine learning approaches for GPCR computer aided drug design
Arianna Fornili
£125,091 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - Wei Dai Studentship - Sosei Heptares
Arianna Fornili and Emma Tjong
£21,600 Nxera Pharma UK Ltd
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - Innovations in ADC linker design - PhD studentship (AstraZeneca)
Christopher Jones and Stellios Arseniyadis
£60,000 AZ AstraZeneca UK Limited
18-09-2023 - 16-03-2029 - Cooperative Noble Base Metal Catalysis - EPSRC NIA
Oriol Planas
£474,870 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-09-2023 - 15-11-2026 - GreenX3: Innovative and sustainable materials, processes and technologies for a GREENer and circular economy
Marina Resmini
£782,029 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-09-2023 - 31-08-2027 - A molten salt community framework for predictive modelling of critical characteristics
Kostya Trachenko
£147,082 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2023 - 30-06-2026 - (HEOM) High entropy oxides: understanding their unique properties and dynamics using machine learning interatomic potentials - MSCA PF-GF Trachenko/Dicks
Kostya Trachenko
£262,232 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-06-2023 - 28-02-2027 - Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)
Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
£2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028 - Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
£576,040 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026 - The cardiovascular function of the orphan G-protein coupled receptor GPR20
Andrew Tinker, Peter McCormick, Arianna Fornili and Patricia Munroe
£307,773 BHF British Heart Foundation
01-05-2023 - 30-04-2026 - Wetcat - MSCA PF 2021 Yao Lu/ Guo
Yao Lu
£190,380 EPSRC - EU Scheme
13-04-2023 - 12-04-2025 - Jochen Brandt URF Enhanced Research Expenses 2023
Jochen Brandt
£134,895 Royal Society
01-04-2023 - 05-01-2026 - Physics, Accuracy and Machine Learning: Towards the next-generation of Molecular Potentials - Misquitta
Alston Misquitta and Rachel Crespo Otero
£265,251 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-02-2023 - 31-01-2027 - Structure of the assembly platform of the type II secretion system
Richard Pickersgill, Vidya Chandran Darbari and Arianna Fornili
£579,168 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
28-10-2022 - 27-10-2025 - Bio-molecular nanocarbon junctions for low-power computing
Matteo Palma and Jan Mol
£95,848 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025 - CTP Training Grant:
Arianna Fornili
£124,909 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026 - Developing next-generation DL_POLY for the benefit of the modelling community
Kostya Trachenko
£368,611 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2022 - 30-11-2025 - Fully-funded PhD studentship (home fees)
Stellios Arseniyadis
£82,779 ORIL Industrie
01-10-2022 - 31-01-2026 - Half-funded PhD studentship (home fees)
Stellios Arseniyadis
£47,215 ORIL Industrie
01-10-2022 - 31-01-2026 - Structural bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches to navigate GPCR ligand interaction space - CTP
Arianna Fornili
£123,829 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026 - Structural Bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches
Arianna Fornili
£21,600 Nxera Pharma UK Ltd
26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026 - URF including expenses - Jochen Brandt-GRANT TRANSFER
Jochen Brandt
£468,299 Royal Society
26-09-2022 - 05-01-2026 - Nanoscale Biosensing Devices: Fundamental Insight on the Sensing Mechanism
Matteo Palma
£230,206 Air Force office of Scientific Research (USA)
01-01-2021 - 28-02-2025 - Mechanisms and prediction of large scale ecological responses to environmental change
Axel Rossberg and Kostya Trachenko
£1,213,084 NERC Natural Environment Research Council
06-01-2020 - 04-04-2025