Supporting world-class labs for early career researchers at The University of Manchester

为曼彻斯特大学的早期职业研究人员提供世界一流的实验室支持

• 批准号: EP/S017593/1
• 负责人: Colette Fagan
• 金额: $ 41.41万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS017593%2F1
• 关键词: Supporting; world; class; labs; early

Since its creation in 2004, the University of Manchester has focussed on building its reputation for world-class research, and has risen rapidly in world university league tables. It now ranks well within the top 40 institutions in the world. Our stated aim is to attract, develop and nurture the careers of excellent researchers, and become the location of choice for staff at all career stages. This includes providing mentoring and support for early career researchers, together with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.Now we propose to use our EPSRC Capital Award to support the careers of early career researchers in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, by providing state-of-the-art equipment in fields aligned with University of Manchester strategic priorities. We will allocate the grant in two competitive bidding rounds. The first of these is complete, and the second will be held six months after the start of the award, targetted at early career researchers recruited in 2018 to highly prestigious University of Manchester Presidential Fellowships. The projects we have chosen for initial investment in round 1 are:* State-of-the-art air quality measurement, which will provide a mobile facility for testing air quality and emissions in new ways. For example, it could lead to lower emission domestic stoves, and will allow us to work with industrial partners towards zero emissions vehicle engines, or to calculate airport carbon footprints from aircraft taxiing, take-off and landing.* Tackling the world's water crisis, helping us to use novel ion exchange membranes to develop efficient new technologies for removing salt to produce affordable drinking water from seawater or brackish water, which comprises 98% of Earth's water.* Developing critical mass in cybersecurity, where the aim is to develop tools to find software vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, in order to ensure that IoT applications and environments are safe, secure, and operate correctly. There is potential to develop commercial products to be used by companies in the areas of consumer electronics, the automotive industry and the financial markets.* New applications of graphene nanocapillaries, allowing the potential of graphene in separating molecules and DNA/protein sequencing to be explored. This could result in more powerful, fast and portable diagnostic devices for DNA sequencing.

自2004年创建以来，曼彻斯特大学一直致力于打造世界级研究声誉，在世界大学排名中迅速崛起。目前，该校已跻身全球前 40 名院校之列。我们的既定目标是吸引、发展和培养优秀研究人员的职业生涯，并成为各个职业阶段员工的首选之地。这包括为早期职业研究人员提供指导和支持，以及最先进的设施和设备。现在，我们建议利用 EPSRC 资本奖来支持科学与工程学院早期职业研究人员的职业生涯，方法是：在与曼彻斯特大学战略重点一致的领域提供最先进的设备。我们将分两轮竞标分配拨款。第一个项目已经完成，第二个项目将在奖项开始六个月后举行，目标对象是 2018 年受邀参加享有盛誉的曼彻斯特大学总统奖学金的早期职业研究人员。我们在第一轮中选择的初始投资项目是： * 最先进的空气质量测量，它将提供一个移动设施，以新的方式测试空气质量和排放。例如，它可以降低家用炉灶的排放，并使我们能够与工业合作伙伴合作实现零排放汽车发动机，或者计算飞机滑行、起飞和着陆时的机场碳足迹。*解决世界水危机，帮助我们使用新颖的离子交换膜开发高效的新技术，去除盐分，从占地球水量 98% 的海水或微咸水中生产出负担得起的饮用水。* 发展网络安全领域的临界质量，目标是开发工具查找物联网 (IoT) 设备中的软件漏洞，以确保物联网应用程序和环境安全可靠且正确运行。有潜力开发出供消费电子、汽车工业和金融市场领域的公司使用的商业产品。*石墨烯纳米毛细管的新应用，使石墨烯在分离分子和 DNA/蛋白质测序方面的潜力得到探索。这可能会带来更强大、更快速、更便携的 DNA 测序诊断设备。