PECRE Awards

Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Exchanges (PECRE) awards provide skills and capabilities development opportunities for postgraduates and early career researchers to build experience of international collaboration with academia and / or industry across Europe, North America, China and India. The programme has been running since 2017/18.


2019/20 Awards

Understanding key processes underpinning the application of Microbially induced calcite precipitation in oil-contaminated ground

Fabian Steinacher
University of Strathclyde

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Employing natural fibres to achieve low-carbon flexibly formed concrete structures

Dr Saverio Spadea
University of Dundee

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Agile Space Infrastructure for Rapid Disaster Response

Dr Ciara McGrath
University of Strathclyde

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Soft robot perception: fabrication and deployment of a flexible capacitance sensor array

Delin Hu
University of Edinburgh

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Patterning and controlled agglomeration of for nanoparticles/colloids to develop the nanostructured thin film for improved solar radiation absorption

Oghenefego Paul Okpozo
Robert Gordon University

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Optimizing near infrared to visible upconversion quantum yield of a trivalent erbium ion doped barium yttrium fluoride in a polyvinylide fluoride (PVDF) host-matrix for photovoltaic (PV) solar cell devices

Joseph Gibbons
Heriot-Watt University

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Modelling the swelling of pharmaceutical tablets using discrete element modelling

Mithushan Soundaranathan
University of Strathclyde

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Development of sustainable non-woven textiles using glass fibres recycled from End-of-Life Wind Turbine Blade

Dr Kyle Pender
University of Strathclyde

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2018/19 Awards

 

Testing of Autonomous Robotic Planetary Subsurface Exploration Technologies Under Martian and Lunar Environmental Conditions

Ryan Timoney
University of Glasgow

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Additive Manufacturing of Bonded Joints by Continuous Fibre Deposition for the Aerospace Industry

Dr Francisca Martinez Hergueta
University of Edinburgh

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Sustainable Chemical Consolidants as an Alternative to Portland Cement Grouting: Experiments and Numerical Models

Dr Matteo Ciantia
University of Dundee

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Computational 3D Low-photon Imaging: Advanced Signal Processing and Computer Graphics Tools for Efficient Information Extraction

Julian Tachella
Heriot Watt University

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Rapid Monitoring of Water Contamination Using Cost-effective Sensors

Dr Zhugen Yang
University of Glasgow

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2017/18 Awards

 

Data Driven Innovation of Sustainable Infrastructure Materials (DDISIM)

Dr Rupert J Myers
University of Edinburgh

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The Role of Morphological Uncertainty in Predicting the Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Tidal Energy and Coastal Flooding

Dr Ruo Qian Wang
University of Dundee

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Novel Analytical Tools for Corrosion-Resistant Concrete Structures

Dr Saverio Spadea
University of Dundee

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Numerical Models of Driven Pile Installations in Chalk for Offshore Renewables

Dr Matteo Ciantia
University of Dundee

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Advanced Computational Methods for Multidimensional Data: Application to Functional MRI

Dr Abderrahim Halimi
Heriot-Watt University

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Accelerating Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisition and Reconstruction

Dr Mohammad Golbabaee
University of Edinburgh

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Surface Bio Functionalization of Plasmonic Environmental Sensors

Ili Farhana Mohamad Ali Nasri
University of Glasgow

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Stem Cell Differentiation Probing by Stimulated Raman Scattering

Dr Han Cui
University of Glasgow

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