Projects (15)

Pollutants and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - understanding gas-gas and gas-solid interactions towards a cleaner atmosphere ATMOS Dec 1, 2021 - Jan 31, 2026
ATMOS denotes a consortium of eleven scientific institutions, six beneficiaries and five partners which main objective is to establish a collaborative effort for the study of scientific problems related to the atmosphere pollution elements, with an e... Read More about Pollutants and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - understanding gas-gas and gas-solid interactions towards a cleaner atmosphere ATMOS.

The resilience and sustainability of the Mekong delta to changes in water and sediment fluxes Jun 15, 2017 - Dec 14, 2019
The Mekong Delta is home to ~18M inhabitants and its ecosystem services provide >50% of the food (primarily rice and fish) and ~28% of the GDP for Vietnam’s ~92M people. Moreover, this productivity underpins food security across SE Asia, with Vietnam... Read More about The resilience and sustainability of the Mekong delta to changes in water and sediment fluxes.

Project ThaiPASS: Thailand-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools 2020 and 2021. Mar 1, 2020 - Mar 31, 2023

Sustainable and industrially scalable ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technologies for manufacturing 2D advanced functional materials Oct 1, 2018 - Dec 31, 2022
This project will clarify and establish the fundamental mechanisms of ultrasonic cavitation and streaming in the exfoliation of graphene and other 2D materials at the nanoscale. The outcomes will be the guidelines, protocols, and optimised parameters... Read More about Sustainable and industrially scalable ultrasonic liquid phase exfoliation technologies for manufacturing 2D advanced functional materials.

Binding energy of biomolecules on ice-covered grains in the interstellar medium Jul 1, 2018 - Aug 31, 2018
The discovery of glycine, one of the most basic amino acid, on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by Rosetta ESA mission has sparked interest in studying the adsorption of molecules of biological interest on interstellar ices. Unfortunately, there is cu... Read More about Binding energy of biomolecules on ice-covered grains in the interstellar medium.

STFC Introductory Astronomy School - 2021 Apr 1, 2021 - Sep 4, 2021
Blended programme of education and research for ~100 1st year postgraduate students from around the country, to be held the final week of August 2021; competitive grant process through STFC; Hull previously awarded £42k to run the 2016 training schoo... Read More about STFC Introductory Astronomy School - 2021.

Morphodynamic Stickiness: the influence of physical and biological cohesion in sedimentary systems May 1, 2017 - Jan 31, 2023
Our coasts, estuaries, & low-land river environments are some of the most sensitive systems to sea-level rise & environmental change. In order to manage these systems, & adapt to future changes, we desperately need to be able to predict how they will... Read More about Morphodynamic Stickiness: the influence of physical and biological cohesion in sedimentary systems.

Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities Nov 1, 2017 - Mar 31, 2024
The opening of Siemens new £310m offshore wind (OSW) turbine blade factory in Hull is a milestone for the industry. It coincides with increased investment in operations and maintenance activities to service the increasing capacity of OSW farms, espec... Read More about Prosperity Partnerships: EPSRC, Business and Universities.

STFC Introductory Astronomy School - 2023 Mar 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2023
Blended programme of education and research for ~100 1st year postgraduate students from around the country, to be held the final week of August 2021; competitive grant process through STFC; Hull previously awarded £42k to run the 2016 training schoo... Read More about STFC Introductory Astronomy School - 2023.

Astrophysics at the University of Hull Apr 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2022
Poposed research is divided into six projects; their respective objectives are listed below in no particular order, given their equal importance to the Centre's research portfolio. The goals within each project are presented in order of priority.... Read More about Astrophysics at the University of Hull.

POSEIDON 2019 Feb 1, 2020 - Nov 30, 2024
Silicon photonics made tremendous progress in the last decade and promises far more cost effective photonic integrated circuits (PICs) than competing III-V semiconductors. However, a monolithically integrable, mass-manufacturable light source is miss... Read More about POSEIDON 2019.

Self assembly of two dimensional colloidal alloys for metamaterials applications Jan 26, 2015 - Mar 25, 2018
The systematic design and construction of materials and devices based on structure at the nanoscale has been identified by the EPSRC as a key challenge and focal point for future research in the UK. A major challenge in this area is to engineer metal... Read More about Self assembly of two dimensional colloidal alloys for metamaterials applications.

Development of efficient & scalable ultrasound-assisted solidification technologies for metal alloys Sep 1, 2014 - Nov 21, 2017
This proposal is timely addressing the urgent need of the metal materials and manufacture industry to search and adopt next-generation, step-change technologies to manufacture primary ingots or shaped components with improved mechanical properties, l... Read More about Development of efficient & scalable ultrasound-assisted solidification technologies for metal alloys.

Novel Nuclear Astrophysical Pathways to Constructing the Periodic Table Jul 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2022
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship to host Professor Tim Beers (University of Notre Dame) for 6 months in 2019-20; we will use a combination of proprietary experimental data for large samples of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the Milky Way'... Read More about Novel Nuclear Astrophysical Pathways to Constructing the Periodic Table.

Deep Text Generation from a Knowledge Graph Oct 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2019
The objective of this project to develop a text generator that can (a) generate coherent and grammatical text for a specific domain from a knowledge graph of relevant facts, and (b) transfer the learnt linguistic representations to new domains that h... Read More about Deep Text Generation from a Knowledge Graph.