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PhD Thesis Prize 2015: Winners announced
Earlier this year we announced that we were sponsoring the Faculty PhD Thesis Prize 2015, providing £500 in prize money to each department to award outstanding PhD students for their doctoral research.
The students were nominated by PhD supervisors, and judged by a panel of academics from each department and an external representative. Please view the guidelines and terms and conditions for more information.
The list of winners are as follows:
Chemistry |
Robert Christopher Deller |
'The Investigation and Application of Ice Recrystallisation Inhibitors as Novel Cryprotectants for Biological Materials' |
Chemistry |
Athina Anastasaki |
'Shining a Light on Copper Mediated Living Radical Polymerisation: Maximising End-group Fidelity' |
Computer Science |
Adnan Khan |
'Algorithms for Breast Cancer Grading in Digital Histopathology Images' |
Life Sciences |
Richard Puxty |
'The Role of Light in Photosynthetic Cyanophages: From Physiology to Gene Expression' |
Mathematics |
David McCormick |
'Existence and Uniqueness Theory for MHD Systems' |
Mathematics |
Kat Rock |
'How Much Do We Care About Biting Insects? Modelling the Dynamics of Vector-Borne Diseases' |
Mathematics |
Jan Volec |
'Analytic Methods in Combinatorics' |
Mathematics |
Richard Webb |
'Effective Geometry of Curve Graphs' |
Physics |
Michael Smidman |
'Superconducting and Magnetic Properties of Non-Centrosymmetric Systems' |
Physics |
Rebecca White |
'Transverse Waves in Solar Corona' |
Psychology |
Takao Noguchi |
'Choice Evaluation and Context Effects' |
WMG |
Carolyn Dawson |
'Future Systems of Measurement for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare' |
Statistics |
Catalina Vallejos Meneses |
'Incorporating Unobserved Heterogeneity and Multiple Event Types in Survival Models: A Bayesian Approach' |
Statistics |
Lorna Barclay |
'Modelling and Reasoning with Chain Event Graphs in Health Studies' |