Physical Sciences: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology & Geosciences

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A Space-Time Approach to Gravitational Radiation Reaction for Astrophysical Black Holes Prof Adrian Ottewill
Sensitivity of Brazil’s wind energy resources to changes in large scale atmospheric teleconnection patterns  Prof Frank McDermott
Measurement and assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from Brazil’s hydroelectric sector Prof Frank McDermott
Reconstruction of late Quaternary meridional shifts in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) using U-series dated cave carbonates from Brazil Prof Frank McDermott
Energy Storage and Release Through Nanomaterials Prof. K. Ravindranathan Thampi
Integration of Water Purification Plants With Advanced PV, Oxidation and Renewable Energy Concepts Prof. K. Ravindranathan Thampi
Textural and mineralogical changes associated with faulting  in immature sandstones. Dr Conrad Childs
The origin of geological fault surface irregularities. Dr Conrad Childs
Innovations in Brazilian river management: flood reconstruction using alluvial sediment geochemistry Dr Jonathan Turner
Rapid assessment of floodplain sediment contamination: high-resolution evaluation of environmental risk in historically metal-mined catchments in Brazil Dr Jonathan Turner
Kinematics of submarine landslides Dr John Walsh
Deformation of passive margins adjacent to ocean transforms Dr John Walsh
Novel w-amino transferases from halophilic and halotolerant organisms, the next step in biocatalysis Dr Francesca Paradisi
Advanced technologies for the treatment of produced water from offshore oil production facilities Prof Eoin Casey
Photopolymers Materials_ Characterization and Application to 3D Optical Fabrication and Data Storage  Prof John Sheridan
 Fast Linear Canonical Transform Algorithms: Efficient Solution of Optical Design and Imaging Problems  Prof John Sheridan
 Speckle Control in Digital Optical Systems: Optimization for Display and Metrology Applications  Prof John Sheridan
Numerical and analytical modelling of two-phase stratified flows  Dr Lennon Ó Náraigh
Homogeneous oxidation catalysis entailed by strongly donating carbene metal complexes  Prof Martin Albrecht
Bio-organometallic catalysis: combining peptide scaffolds with N-heterocyclic carbene chemistry  Prof Martin Albrecht
Universal Taylor series and potential theory  Prof Stephen gardiner
Synthesis of S-Linked Galactosylceramides  Dr Xiangming Zhu
Design and Synthesis of Glycomimetics  Dr Xiangming Zhu
Use of Sulfonamides as Traceless Tethers in the Synthesis of Alkaloids  Dr Paul Evans
Robust biodiversity hotspot identification and distribution patterns from incomplete species presence/absence data Dr Jon Yearsley
Developing tandem catalytic asymmetric processes  Prof Pat Guiry
Synthesis and evaluation of novel lipoxins  Prof Pat Guiry
New ligands for asymmetric catalysis  Prof Pat Guiry
Petrogenesis of Li-rare metal pegmatites associated with the Leinster granite, Ireland  Dr Julian Menuge
Hydrothermal sulphide chimneys and the evolution of volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits  Dr Julian Menuge
Transition metal isotope variations in iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) ore deposits as a potential mineral exploration tool l Dr Julian Menuge
Ultrafast wavefront sensing and multiphoton imaging  Dr Brian Vohnsen
Coded optical tomography in dense media  Dr Brian Vohnsen
Algebraic Study of Perfect Nonlinear (Planar) Functions  Prof Gary McGuire
Positivity in Matrix Theory  Dr Helena Smigoc
Geometric Modulation of Spin State in Manganese(III) Dr Grace Morgan
 Fischer Operators for Analytic Partial Di erential Equations  Dr Hermann Render
Development of skincare products from frog skin peptides Dr Chandralal Hewage
NMR and molecular modeling studies of incretin hormones Dr Chandralal Hewage
Structural studies of antimicrobial peptides

Dr Chandralal Hewage
Natural products for diabetic therapy Dr Chandralal Hewage
Higgs boson and electroweak physics at LHCb Dr Ronan McNulty
Exploring mixed-solvent systems for the electrosynthesis of novel nano-scale polymer coatings on metal surfaces Prof Robert O'Neill
Design and characterization of polymer-coated, enzyme-based biosensors for neurochemical monitoring of brain neurotransmitters and energy metabolites Prof Robert O'Neill
Development of a Selective Micorelectrochemical sensor for brain Vitamin C   Prof Robert O'Neill
Design and characterization of nanoparticle–polymer composite materials for biomedical devices Prof Robert O'Neill
Numerical analyses of the geotechnical response of Volcanoes  Dr Kenneth Gavin
Multiscale modelling of nanoparticle interactions with biointerfaces and cytotoxicity effects  Dr Vladimir Lobaskin
Active particles in micro- and nanoflows: Computer simulation of bacterial motility and microswimming  Dr Vladimir Lobaskin
Study of protein folding by particle swarm optimization method  Dr Vladimir Lobaskin
Weakly Open Subsets of the Unit Ball of Spaces of Polynomials  Dr Christopher Boyd
Surjective Isometries Between Spaces of Polynomials  Dr Christopher Boyd
Ionic Liquids in catalytic processes  Dr Damian Mooney
Quantum Computers and quasi-Clifford Algebras  Dr Russell Higgs
Catalytic Asymmetric Grignard reaction  Prof Declan Gilheany
P-Stereogenic components of ProTide drugs  Prof Declan Gilheany
P-stereogenic phosphorus compounds.  Prof Declan Gilheany
Systems biology of host-pathogen interactions in bovine tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis.

Prof David MacHugh
Prof Stephen Gordon

Systems biology of host-pathogen interactions in Johne’s disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis.

Prof David MacHugh
Prof Stephen Gordon

Development of Catalysts for Stereoselective Glycosylations Dr Eoghan McGarrigle
Organocatalysts for the Synthesis of 2-DeoxySugars Dr Eoghan McGarrigle
Differential hypoxia signaling in breast cancer: potential therapeutic target Dr Alex Cheong
Genetic Boolean logic gates in control of mammalian gene phenotype Dr Alex Cheong
Diversity of functions of aquaporins in root physiology among major plant groups  Dr Wieland Fricke
Absisic acid at the control point between shoot water loss and root water uptake  Dr Wieland Fricke
New window on the quantum world: Multi-coincidence Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Vapours. Dr Emma Sokell 
Creating and Imaging The Brightest Possible Incoherent Light Sources from Tiny Laser Plasma Balls  Dr Fergal O'Reilly
Photoabsorption Studies of Laser Plasma Plumes Excited by Soft X-ray Pulses  Dr Fergal O'Reilly
Keeping the Sun in a Box – Soft X-ray Emission from Confined Laser Plasmas Imaged Temporally, Spectrally and Spatially Prof Padraig Dunne
SCHUR MULTIPLIERS AND COMBINATORICS  Dr Rupert Levene
Picosecond Spectro-Photography of  Laser Plasma Plumes Exploding at a Hundred Kilometres Per Second Prof Gerry O'Sullivan
Molecular Switching on Plasmonic Nanoscale Structures”  Dr Dominic Zerulla
Magneto-Optical Nanoparticles  Dr Dominic Zerulla
Imaging the Ultra Fast Dynamics of Spin-Plasmonics  Dr Dominic Zerulla
Quantummechanical approach to Plasmonics  Dr Dominic Zerulla
Photodynamics of Nucleic Acid Supramolecular Assemblies Dr Susan Quinn
Ultrafast electron transfer in nanoparticle systems Dr Susan Quinn
Extreme events in nonlinear resonant wave systems: From integrability to chaos and turbulence in atmosphere, oceans, and fusion plasmas  Dr. Miguel D. Bustamante
Extreme events in highly-nonlinear magneto-hydrodynamics: Space-time structure of magnetic reconnection in the solar corona  Dr. Miguel D. Bustamante
The use of ground penetrating radar in below-ground agriculture and forestry biomass estimation Prof Maarten Nieuwenhuis
Dead zones: applications of ichnofabric analysis in the palaeoecological reconstruction of oxygen-depleted sedimentary sequences Dr Patrick J. Orr
Fingerprinting depositional environments: use of Ichnofabrics in stratigraphy and facies analysis Dr Patrick J. Orr
Understanding and modelling the spatial evolution of fault segments during fault zone localisation and growth. Dr Tom Manzocchi
Targeting integrins with new weapons: cyclic peptides containing a conformationally constrained synthetic amino acid. Dr Francesca Paradisi
New experimental techniques and synthetic methods utilising automated flow micro-reactor systems. Prof Donal O'Shea
Variational Methods for Elliptic Equations  Dr Marius Ghergu
Boundary-blow-up solutions for Elliptic and Parabolic problems  Dr Marius Ghergu
Higher Order Elliptic Equations  Dr Marius Ghergu
A Mathematical Study of Reaction-Diffusion systems arising in Real Life  Dr Marius Ghergu
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Bioorganometallic Antibiotics  Dr Matthias Tacke
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Bioorganometallic Anticancer Drugs  Dr Matthias Tacke
New experimental techniques and synthetic methods utilising automated flow micro-reactor systems Prof Donal O'Shea