Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy that are of particular relevance:
- Amplitudes, Strings and Duality (2025)
Andreas Brandhuber, David Berman, Gabriele Travaglini, Congkao Wen, Matthew Buican, Gustav Mogull, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Ricardo Monteiro, Christopher White, Scott Melville, David Vegh, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Masanori Hanada, Rodolfo Russo and Biagio Lucini
£1,521,358 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2030 - Astronomy Small Award 2025: Migration and growth of super-Earths in magnetised protoplanetary discs
Richard Nelson
£522,776 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2029 - Connecting inflationary cosmology to observations on all scales
David Mulryne
£511,283 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2029 - Coupling of micro- and macro-scale processes in the Earth's magnetosheath
Christopher Chen and Heli Hietala
£475,126 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2029 - STFC Doctoral Landscape Awards 2026
Constantinos Papageorgakis
£456,354 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2026 - 30-09-2030 - ATLAS Upgrade Grant 2026-31
Seth Zenz, Eram Rizvi, Adrian Bevan, Marcella Bona, Ulla Blumenschein and Ian Dawson
£214,352 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-04-2026 - 31-03-2031 - Particle Physics Research Centre Consolidated Grant 2025-29
Seth Zenz, Abigail Waldron, Eram Rizvi, Peter Hobson, Adrian Bevan, Jonathan Hays, Marcella Bona, Ulla Blumenschein, Linda Cremonesi, Ian Dawson and Nicola McConkey
£904,955 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-01-2026 - 31-12-2027 - URF renewal - URF\R\251031: Shock transients in the inner heliosphere during maximum solar activity
Heli Hietala
£689,718 Royal Society
02-12-2025 - 01-12-2028 - RS International Exchange 2025: Learning plasma physics fluid closures with machine learning - Italy
Enrico Camporeale
£12,000 Royal Society
01-12-2025 - 30-11-2027 - RS-CDF 2025: New insights for gauge theories and gravity - Dr. Kymani Armstrong-Williams
Kymani Armstrong-Williams
£655,986 Royal Society
24-11-2025 - 23-11-2029 - Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund
Nicola McConkey
£38,000 Institute of Physics
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2029 - Matched PhD studentship with RAL: Reaching Beyond the Standard Model with DUNE PRISM
Nicola McConkey
£56,632 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2029 - SHOCKWAVE MSCA PF 2024 Hietala/Koller
Heli Hietala
£217,591 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2027 - IRIS Science Director 2025-27
Jonathan Hays
£174,954 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-08-2025 - 31-07-2027 - SHAREing : Skills Hub for Accelerated Research Environments Inspiring the Next Generation
Jonathan Hays and Biagio Lucini
£51,060 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-04-2025 - 31-03-2028 - RS-NIF 2024: Celestial Construction of Scattering Amplitudes - Lecheng Ren
Ricardo Monteiro
£257,848 Royal Society
31-03-2025 - 30-03-2027 - Combinatorics and algorithms for quantum states in holography
Sanjaye Ramgoolam
£12,000 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - URF 2023: The environmental origins of exoplanetary systems - Andrew Winter
Andrew Winter and Thomas Haworth
£1,815,619 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2032 - (AENEAS) Age-enabled Exoplanet Science ERC-STG-2023-Gillen
Edward Gillen
£1,304,360 EPSRC - EU Scheme
05-11-2024 - 04-11-2029 - DHF Extension: Enabling the future of observational studies of externally photoevaporating planet-forming discs
Thomas Haworth
£681,319 Royal Society
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027 - FLF Renewal - Using neutrinos to unravel the mysteries of the universe
Linda Cremonesi
£594,150 MRC Medical Research Council
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027 - International Exchanges: Machine Learning to discover New Physics in Neutrino Interactions
Abigail Waldron
£12,000 Royal Society
06-09-2024 - 05-09-2027 - Holography and Quantum Black Holes” (HUMBLE) - MSCA PF-ST Papageorgakis / Hosseini
Constantinos Papageorgakis
£200,512 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-09-2024 - 28-02-2027 - URF Transfer for Dr. Gustav Mogull: Gravitational Waves from Worldline Quantum Field Theory
Gustav Mogull
£1,342,348 Royal Society
01-09-2024 - 31-08-2032 - XLZD@BOULBY - Preliminary Activity - WP8 Societal and Environmental Benefits
Jonathan Hays
£455,509 UKRI UK Research & Innovation
01-07-2024 - 31-12-2027 - FRIED: External photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs - ERC CoG 2022 Haworth
Thomas Haworth
£1,676,608 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-05-2024 - 30-04-2029 - GridPP7 Staff Grant QMUL
Jonathan Hays
£1,609,127 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2028 - Who cares about fundamental science?
Christopher White and Anthony Phillips
£246,248 Leverhulme Trust
11-01-2024 - 14-08-2027 - Piecing together the neutrino mass puzzle in search of new particles with precision oscillation experiments and quantum technologies-GRANT TRANSFER
Nicola McConkey
£431,666 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-01-2024 - 30-09-2027 - RS URF Enhanced Expenses 2023
Ricardo Monteiro
£239,386 Royal Society
02-10-2023 - 13-10-2027 - Amplitudes, Strings and Duality (CG 2022)
Andreas Brandhuber, David Berman, Matthew Buican, Rodolfo Russo, David Vegh, Sanjaye Ramgoolam, Gabriele Travaglini, Christopher White, Bill Spence, Congkao Wen, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Ricardo Monteiro, Malcolm Perry and Biagio Lucini
£1,490,072 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027 - Flexible organic alpha detectors
Adrian Bevan and Alan Drew
£143,147 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
18-09-2023 - 17-09-2027 - Hietala Enhanced Research Expenses 2023
Heli Hietala
£218,142 Royal Society
01-07-2023 - 01-12-2028 - Astronomy Research at Queen Mary 2023 - 2026
Chris Clarkson, Richard Nelson, Timothy Clifton, William Sutherland, Edward Gillen, Karim Malik, Thomas Haworth, Sijme-Jan Paardekooper, Theresa Baker, David Mulryne, Philip Bull, Juan A. Valiente Kroon, Charalampos Markakis, Mohammad Mahdi Godazgar, Katy Clough, Pau Figueras and Arick Shao
£1,625,769 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-04-2023 - 31-03-2027 - Heliospheric and Planetary Research 2023-2026
David Burgess, Christopher Chen and Craig Agnor
£868,380 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-04-2023 - 31-03-2027 - UK involvement in LSST: Phase C (University of Birmingham component)
William Sutherland
£53,025 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-04-2023 - 31-12-2026 - Upgrade of the ATLAS detector at the LHC
Marcella Bona, Jonathan Hays, Ulla Blumenschein, Seth Zenz, Ian Dawson, Adrian Bevan and Eram Rizvi
£978,500 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-04-2023 - 31-03-2027 - Scattering of Particles and Strings: Holography, Geometry, and Hidden structures - URF Renewal
Congkao Wen
£407,603 Royal Society
01-01-2023 - 31-12-2027 - URF Renewals 2022: Enhanced Research Expenses
Congkao Wen
£240,000 Royal Society
01-01-2023 - 31-12-2027 - Scattering of Particles, Strings and Black Holes - URF renewal
Ricardo Monteiro
£389,975 Royal Society
14-10-2022 - 13-10-2027 - Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Intensive Science (DISCnet 2)
Eram Rizvi
£439,579 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2028 - Particle Physics Research Centre Consolidated Grant
Adrian Bevan, Marcella Bona, Peter Hobson, Eram Rizvi, Jonathan Hays, Theodore Kreouzis, Ulla Blumenschein, Seth Zenz, Linda Cremonesi and Ian Dawson
£1,860,446 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-10-2022 - 31-03-2027 - Scattering in Gauge Theory, Gravity and String Theory - Research Fellows Enhanced Research Expenses 2021
Ricardo Monteiro
£50,718 Royal Society
01-10-2022 - 13-10-2027 - Exploring New Regions of Space: Fundamentals and Impacts of Astrophysical Plasma Turbulence - FLF
Christopher Chen
£1,413,239 Medical Research Council
01-08-2022 - 31-07-2027 - Enhanced Research Expenses 2021-GRANT TRANSFER
Heli Hietala
£153,338 Royal Society
01-07-2022 - 01-12-2028 - University Research Fellowship-GRANT TRANSFER
Heli Hietala
£391,638 Royal Society
01-07-2022 - 01-12-2028 - EPSRC DTP Mobility 2020
Eram Rizvi, Mark Sandler, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns and Jun Chen
£1,705,691 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2020 - 30-04-2028 - Winton Exoplanet Fellowship - transfer in
Edward Gillen
£106,514 David and Claudia Harding Foundation
01-05-2020 - 30-04-2027