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Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine

Winners of the Faculty of Science Doctoral Thesis Awards 2016

This year's Faculty of Science Doctoral Thesis Awards, where PhD students within the Faculty are awarded up to £500 for their doctoral thesis, has taken place and the winners have been announced.

Find out who the winners are:
LIFE SCIENCES:

Blanca Perez Sepulveda 
“Molecular Basis of Cyanophage Resistance in Marine Synechococcus”

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LIFE SCIENCES:

Ian Lidbury 
“Microbial Methylated Amine Metabolism in Marine Surface Waters”

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SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:

Manuel Alejandro Esparza Franco 
“A Systems Biology Analysis of Feedback Control in Pheromone Signalling of Fission Yeast”

 Manuel Alejandro Esparza Franco
PHYSICS:

David Chapman
“Probing the Dynamic Response of Dense Matter with X-ray Thomson Scattering”

 David Chapman
PHYSICS:

Tom Machon 
“Aspects of Geometry and Topology in Liquid Crystalline Phases”

 Tom Machon
COMPUTER SCIENCE:

Bo Gao
“Developing Energy-Aware Workload offloading Frameworks in Mobile Cloud Computing”

 Bo Gao
COMPUTER SCIENCE:

Philip Taylor
“Data Mining of Vehicle Telemetry Data for Driving Monitoring”

 Philip Taylor
CHEMISTRY:
Daniel Phillips
"Biochemically Adaptive Materials based on Isothermally Responsive Materials"
  
CHEMISTRY:
Jonathan Lamley
"Methods for the Determination of the Structures and Dynamics of Proteins by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy."
  
WMG:
Neill Raath
"Failure Prediction of Spot Welded Boron Steel"
  
SYSTEMS BIOLOGY:
Jason Piper
"The demarcation of transcription factor binding sites through the analysis of DNase-seq data"
  
STATISTICS:
Kirsty Hassall
"The temporal and Spatial Analysis of Single Gene Expression"
  
STATISTICS:
Manuele Leonelli
"Bayesian Decision Support in Complex Modular Systems: an Algebraic and Graphical Approach"
  
PHYSICS:
Davide Michieletto
"Topological Interactions in Ring Polymers"
  
MATHEMATICS:
Tomasz Tkocz
"High Dimensional Phenomena: Dilations, Tensor Products and Geometry of L_1"
  
ENGINEERING:
Tang Yuan
"Modular Multilevel Converter: Submodule Dimensioning, Testing Method, and Topology Innovation"
  
 
More information about this year's awards can be found here