Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Chemical Research that are of particular relevance:

  • DJ Fellowship: Earth Abundant Perovskite Catalysts to Promote the Water Splitting Reaction
    Devis Di Tommaso
    £150,114 Daphne Jackson Trust, the
    03-11-2025 - 02-11-2028
  • Electronic and computational characterisation of Zwitterionic Heavier Pnictogen Species
    Stellios Arseniyadis
    £4,921 RSC The Royal Society of Chemistry
    22-09-2025 - 05-12-2025
  • Reducing Drug Cardiac Toxicity Using Molecular Simulations and Machine Learning
    Wojciech Kopec
    £5,000 RSC The Royal Society of Chemistry
    17-09-2025 - 16-09-2026
  • DNA Nanotechnology for Single-Molecule Control in Sensing Devices: from Biomarkers and Explosives
    Matteo Palma
    £313,131 Air Force office of Scientific Research (USA)
    15-09-2025 - 14-09-2028
  • IRSIP fellowship - Hasan Yaqoob
    Christian Nielsen
    £1,750 Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
    15-09-2025 - 14-03-2026
  • DNAOrgCat MSCA PF 2024 Arseniyadis / Munda
    Stellios Arseniyadis
    £205,111 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
    01-09-2025 - 31-08-2027
  • MiCLuP MSCA PF 2024 Jie/Siddique
    Michael Jie
    £217,591 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
    01-09-2025 - 31-08-2027
  • Novel Sustainable Fluorine-Free Antifouling Coatings with High-Performance and Low-Cost
    Yao Lu
    £33,010 Innovate UK
    26-08-2025 - 18-12-2025
  • Portable Multiplexed Biosensors for Trauma Induced Coagulopathy
    Matteo Palma
    £249,998 Ministry of Defence
    01-06-2025 - 31-03-2027
  • Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Power Roll - In-situ perovskite solar cell analysis
    Stoichko Dimitrov and Joe Briscoe
    £226,363 Innovate UK
    01-04-2025 - 31-03-2027
  • RB2420042 OFFSPEC Architecture of Sulfonate Polymer Brushes and their Complex with BMP-2
    Ali Zarbakhsh
    £690 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    06-03-2025 - 05-03-2026
  • 2420041: Architecture of Nanosheets of Co-Surfactant/Protein Colloids at Liquid- Liquid Interfaces
    Ali Zarbakhsh
    £980 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    04-03-2025 - 03-03-2026
  • Synthetic cells as adjuvants of microbial communities for biotechnology
    Omar Rifaie Graham
    £29,907 Royal Society
    01-03-2025 - 28-02-2026
  • Radiopaque Enhancing Polymer for Advanced Innovative Restoration
    Ferranti Wong and Stellios Arseniyadis
    £75,000 Barts and the London Charity
    01-01-2025 - 01-06-2026
  • HISUMAX - MSCA PF 2023 Abrahams/ Shaheen
    Isaac Abrahams
    £206,086 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    02-10-2024 - 01-10-2026
  • BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: Ivan Manoza
    Wojciech Kopec
    £18,000 Janssen Pharmaceutica (Belg)
    01-10-2024 - 30-09-2028
  • Deliberate imperfection: topological design of defects within graphene
    Christian Nielsen
    £75,566 Leverhulme Trust
    02-09-2024 - 01-09-2028
  • ICONIC
    Christian Nielsen
    £462,723 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-05-2024 - 30-04-2028
  • Optimizing CO2 mineralization: from atomistic detail to reactor design
    Devis Di Tommaso and Gregory Chass
    £349,105 Leverhulme Trust
    01-05-2024 - 30-09-2027
  • Contract research: Microwave-driven dry methane reforming
    Michael Jie
    £355,092 HUNT ENERGY ENTERPRISES, L.L.C.
    01-03-2024 - 30-04-2026
  • Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-On
    Lei Su, Oliver Fenwick, Colin Crick and Stoichko Dimitrov
    £941,955 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-03-2024 - 28-02-2028
  • UKRI FLF Renewal
    Jan Mol
    £593,003 MRC Medical Research Council
    01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026
  • BBSRC AIDD CTP CASE Award: Yu-Yuan Yang
    Richard Pickersgill and Arianna Fornili
    £8,600 Evotec EVOTEC (UK) LIMITED
    01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027
  • Neutron studies of disordered materials: linking experiment to theory: Studentship - Peter Dung Nguyen
    Anthony Phillips
    £36,426 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026
  • Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversion
    Christian Nielsen and Andrew Livingston
    £62,500 Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027
  • TG: Cheminformatics and machine learning approaches for GPCR computer aided drug design
    Arianna Fornili
    £125,091 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027
  • Wei Dai Studentship - Sosei Heptares
    Arianna Fornili and Emma Tjong
    £21,600 Nxera Pharma UK Ltd
    01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027
  • Innovations in ADC linker design - PhD studentship (AstraZeneca)
    Christopher Jones and Stellios Arseniyadis
    £60,000 AstraZeneca UK Limited
    18-09-2023 - 16-03-2029
  • GreenX3: Innovative and sustainable materials, processes and technologies for a GREENer and circular economy
    Marina Resmini
    £782,029 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-09-2023 - 31-08-2027
  • A molten salt community framework for predictive modelling of critical characteristics
    Kostya Trachenko
    £147,082 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-07-2023 - 30-06-2026
  • (HEOM) High entropy oxides: understanding their unique properties and dynamics using machine learning interatomic potentials - MSCA PF-GF Trachenko/Dicks
    Kostya Trachenko
    £262,232 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-06-2023 - 28-02-2027
  • Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)
    Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
    £2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028
  • Discovering missing links in neuropeptide evolution and function
    Maurice Elphick and Arianna Fornili
    £576,040 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2026
  • The cardiovascular function of the orphan G-protein coupled receptor GPR20
    Andrew Tinker, Peter McCormick, Arianna Fornili and Patricia Munroe
    £307,773 BHF British Heart Foundation
    01-05-2023 - 30-04-2026
  • Jochen Brandt URF Enhanced Research Expenses 2023
    Jochen Brandt
    £134,895 Royal Society
    01-04-2023 - 05-01-2026
  • Physics, Accuracy and Machine Learning: Towards the next-generation of Molecular Potentials - Misquitta
    Alston Misquitta and Rachel Crespo Otero
    £265,251 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-02-2023 - 31-01-2027
  • Structure of the assembly platform of the type II secretion system
    Richard Pickersgill, Vidya Chandran Darbari and Arianna Fornili
    £579,168 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    28-10-2022 - 31-03-2026
  • CTP Training Grant:
    Arianna Fornili
    £124,909 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026
  • Fully-funded PhD studentship (home fees)
    Stellios Arseniyadis
    £82,779 ORIL Industrie
    01-10-2022 - 31-01-2026
  • Half-funded PhD studentship (home fees)
    Stellios Arseniyadis
    £47,215 ORIL Industrie
    01-10-2022 - 31-01-2026
  • Structural bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches to navigate GPCR ligand interaction space - CTP
    Arianna Fornili
    £123,829 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
    01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026
  • Structural Bioinformatics and chemogenomics approaches
    Arianna Fornili
    £21,600 Nxera Pharma UK Ltd
    26-09-2022 - 25-09-2026
  • URF including expenses - Jochen Brandt-GRANT TRANSFER
    Jochen Brandt
    £468,299 Royal Society
    26-09-2022 - 05-01-2026
  • Fast proton conducting hydroxides for fuel cells
    Isaac Abrahams
    £17,710 British Council
    01-06-2022 - 31-12-2025
  • Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Resistance to Therapeutic Antibodies Product Development
    Gavin Giovannoni, Sharmilee Gnanapavan, Borislava Mihaylova and Jonathon Hills
    £397,371 National Institute for Health Research
    01-11-2020 - 31-12-2025