Awarded Projects

The project outlined here aims to uncover firstly the formation pathways of MBHs and secondly to track the evolution and growth of MBHs in very early galaxies as the MBHs grow, merge and settle towards their host galaxy's centre.

The interaction between bubbles and turbulence is a crucial aspect of many natural phenomena and industrial processes.

Particles in turbulence are omnipresent. Dust in the atmosphere, sediment in marine environments or biological beings in a variety of turbulent flows are just some of the possible examples.

For the first time in the history of climate modelling, it is becoming possible to run multi-year climate simulations with a global atmospheric model that has a horizontal resolution of a few kilometers.

Polymers are ubiquitous in our society thanks to their relative ease of synthesis from petroleum-derived intermediates. Indeed, synthetic polymers can be formulated into diverse materials, have shown extreme durability, and can be manufactured at low cost.

Astrophysical observations reveal that disorganised plasmas around compact objects produce coherent radiation. How orderly processes can arise from such conditions and give place to coherent dynamics still eludes us. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain these phenomena.

Most proteins in the cell begin to fold co-translationally on the ribosome while they emerge from its exit tunnel. A growing amount of evidence also demonstrates that the ribosome itself can significantly modulate this process.

Determining atomic resolution structures of multiple functional states of protein would greatly aid the development of drugs to target these states and regulate biomolecular function.

2D materials can be dramatically different from those of their 3D parents, thus unveiling novel physical phenomena and creating new technological potentialities.