👩🔬🧑🔬 Huge congratulations to Dr Edith Kubik, Dr Jing Lyu, Assistant Professor Camille Nadal, Dr John Greaney, and Dr Matteo Leta on securing over €3 million in funding through the Research Ireland Pathway programme.
Their funded UCD projects are:
🌎 Dr Edith Kubik, UCD School of Earth Sciences
🔹 Project: Quantifying core formation conditions with isotopic tracers
🔹 Goal: To better understand the conditions under which the cores of Earth and Mars formed
🦵 Dr Jing Lyu, UCD School of Medicine
🔹 Project: Novel hyperbranched polymers from kinetically controlled polymerization of multivinyl monomers and their application in injectable stem cell hydrogel scaffolds for cartilage repair
🔹 Goal: To develop an injectable hydrogel scaffold that can restore damaged cartilage in joints
🩻 Dr Camille Nadal, UCD School of Computer Science
🔹 Project: A Life with Endometriosis: Empowering Individuals through Technology (Tech4Endo)
Goal: To create technology that will address endometriosis sufferers’ needs across areas including mental health, finances and relationships
🇪🇺 Dr John Greaney, UCD School of English, Drama and Film
🔹 Project: Contemporary modernisms: the reconstitution of Europe and the fate of the avant-garde (CONTMODS)
🔹 Goal: To analyse the ways in which modernism has become a form of cultural nationalism in Europe
🖼️ Dr Matteo Leta, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
🔹 Project: Staging Otherness: The Representation of “Gypsies”, Turks, and Moors in Italian Renaissance Comedies and their European Translations (c.1500-1650)
🔹 Goal: To examine the portrayal of “Gypsies”, Moors and Turks in Italian Renaissance comedies and their European translations, and understand the emergence of early forms of xenophobia
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, announced a total of €23 million Research Ireland funding through the Pathway programme, which will support early-career researchers across 11 research institutions.
ALT Dr Matteo Leta, Dr Camille Nadal and Dr John Greaney, three of the five UCD awardees