College staff granted Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Awards

Over £729K has been awarded to support Scotland's research sector. 

The RSE’s Research Awards Programme runs twice a year in spring and autumn. It aims to support Scotland’s research sector by nurturing promising talent, stimulating research in Scotland, and promoting international collaboration.

The funding will enable innovative research across a range of academic disciplines, with projects including charting the spread of marine invasive non-natives in Scotland, developing a multidisciplinary approach to evidence-led conservation of stained glass, rethinking criminal responsibility in the age of neurodiversity, and investigating minimally invasive robotic total hip replacements. 

Congratulations to the College's Spring 2025 RSE Research Awardees: 

Small Research Grants

Dr Sergio Garcia Quiles, School of Mathematics               

"A fast solution algorithm for a periodical multimodal routing problem"

Dr Claire Moulton-Brown, with collaborators Professor Thorunn Helgason,  and Professor Sarah Reece, School of Biological Sciences                           

"Source or sink: Unearthing microbial carbon cycling in afforested woodland"

Dr Elizabeth Orr, School of Geosciences 

"GLACIAL-GRIT: Quantifying the impacts of variable debris supply to mountain glaciers under a changing climate"

Dr Amer Syed, School of Engineering 

"To B or not to B: The dilemma of reusable battery packs"

Dr Willem Vanderlinden, School of Physics and Astronomy  

"The conformational landscape of twisted human chromatin"

International Joint Projects (Stream 1)

Dr Liang Zhao, School of Informatics with collaborator Professor Shoudong Huang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

"Minimally invasive robotic total hip replacement"

Scotland-Lower Saxony Research and Innovation Scheme

Professor Maria Grazia De Angelis, School of Engineering with collaborator Professor Michael Fischlschweiger, TU Clausthal 

"Advancing materials for the energy transition with molecular precision synthesis and in silico design"

Professor Daniel Friedrich, School of Engineering with collaborator Professor Stefan Holler, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Goettingen

"Towards effective heat zoning through waste heat integration and large-scale thermal energy storage"

Professor Ross Galloway, School of Physics and Astronomy with collaborator Professor Gunnar Friege, Leibniz University of Hannover

"Developing and evaluating more authentic physics laboratory experiences"

Professor Brian Peterson, School of Engineering with collaborator Dr Federica Ferraro, Technische Universität Braunschweig

"Improving fire safety through predictive modelling and advanced experiments"

Dr Lars Schewe, School of Mathematics with collaborator Professor Andreas Tillmann, TU Clausthal

"Scalable optimization algorithms for energy and traffic networks"