Dr. Joachim Radler, Stokes Nominee for UCD; Gerry O’Sullivan, School of Physics, UCD; Dr. Gil Lee, Purdue University, USA and Stokes Professorship Nominee for UCD; Prof. Frank Gannon, Director General SFI; Andrew Phillips, UCD; Dr. Brian Vohnsen, Uni de Murcia, Spain and Stokes Lectureship Nominee for UCD and Earle Waghorne, School of Chemistry, UCD
UCD is delighted to announce the arrival to the university of a number of leading researchers under the SFI Stokes Programme. At an announcement made by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, UCD was awarded 9 Stokes Professorships and 7 Stokes Lectureships out of a total of 67 awards made nationally. The programme is aimed at recruiting senior, world-class research academics as well as entry-level academics and senior post-doctoral researchers.
Among the Stokes Professors who will be taking up posts at UCD are Professor Gil Lee and Professor Matthias Wilm. Currently an Associate Professor in the Schools of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, Indiana, Professor Gil Lee works in the emerging field of BioNanoTechnology. He and his collaborators study intra- and intermolecular forces in biological molecules that are responsible for the diverse structural and functional behavior of biological systems.
Professor Lee joins the UCD School of Chemistry and Chemical Biology to continue this work by starting new programmes to study forces in whole cells and develop novel lab-on-a-chip devices. Professor Lee’s work will further develop the nanobiology programme at UCD, which was recently awarded a Strategic Research Cluster Award from SFI and a HEA PRTLI award to establish new laboratories in the UCD Science Centre.
Prof Matthias Wilm – researcher in the field of systems biology.
It is in this context that Professor Wilm explains his research, "About seven years ago it became clear how proteins can be sequenced in a very sensitive way by mass spectrometers. This made biological material much more amenable to direct scientific investigation. Since then, the technology evolved from sequencing individual proteins, to groups of proteins, to high throughput protein sequencing. My group will harness the extraordinary power of mass spectrometers to sequence and quantify proteins on a large scale", he explains.
Prof Gil Lee – researcher in the field of BioNanoTechnology.
The Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Professorship and Lectureship
Programme (“The Stokes”) is designed to support the strategic recruitment
of research-active faculty members. Established in 2007, Stokes provides
Higher Education Institutes with greater flexibility in the strategic
recruitment of key research personnel at multiple levels, thereby enabling
Schools or Institutes to integrate quality research staff to the existing
pool of expertise.
From the 2007 call,
SFI will fund a total of 15 Stokes Professorships and 40 Stokes Lectureships.
SFI will provide awards of €90,000 (Lectureships) and €180,000 (Professorships)
per annum for the duration of the award.
