For further details, please contact:

Dr. Sophie Dale

Interdisciplinary Bridging Officer

bridgingthegaps at nottingham.ac.uk

Tel: 0115 84 68923

     
Visiting Scholar Programme 2009

 

£22K of funding has been awarded to four Nottingham academics, who will be hosting visitors during 2009. These visitors will bring interdisciplinary expertise and enthusiasm to Nottingham, with all members of the University welcome to attend the seminars they give. During their stays, the visitors will be meeting with academics from around the University, so do get in touch if one of the visitors is of interest to you.

 

Bridging the Gaps Visiting Scholarships

  • Dr. Noah Russell (Engineering) – to fund a series of half-day workshops on quantitative bioimaging, with seminars by both internal and external speakers, engaging disciplines as diverse as mathematics, engineering, computer science, psychology and biology.
  • Dr. Xiaolin Meng (Engineering) – to host Prof. Jingnan Liu (Professor of Satellite Geodesy, National GNSS Research Center of Wuhan University) in order to develop research collaborations between China and UK researchers in global navigation satellite system (GNSS) research and the geospatial sciences.
  • Suchith Anand (Engineering) – to host Georg Gartner (Head of Department of Geoinformation and Cartography, Vienna University of Technology) in order to develop research collaborations in Location Based Services and open source GIS between their two institutions.

 

Bridging the Gaps Plus Visiting Scholarships

  • Melissa Mather (Engineering) – to host Anthony Collings (Principal Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia) in order to catalyse new research activities in controlled release systems and non-invasive bio-process monitoring.
  • Arthur Jones (Engineering) – to host Dr. Robert DiRaddo (Group Leader, Simulation of Deformable Materials, Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council Canada) and Dr. Patricia Debergue (Research Officer, same institution) in order to develop research collaborations in the application of haptics and deformable solids to the simulation of soft tissue surgery.

 

NB. Bridging the Gaps Plus Visiting Scholarships are funded by a recent grant from the University of Nottingham to fund an expansion in the Bridging the Gaps project into the RCUK research domains of the Digital Economy and Lifelong Health and Wellbeing.