Research Areas


All projects currently available within Faculty of Science are listed below by project title.

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Currently available projects

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Air Cushioning in Water Impact
Atmospheric Budgets of Gases Relevant to Climate
Augmented Reality for Image Guided Endoscopic Surgery
Biofunctionalization of liposomes for tumour-targeted drug delivery
Biotic Mediation of Intertidal Sedimentary Processes
Boundary Layer Flows Past Multiple Aerofoils and/or Ground Effects
Carbon Capture and Formate Biosynthesis using a Microbe-Electrode Device
Carbon Dioxide Uptake and Carbonate Chemistry in UK Shelf Waters
Chemistry-cloud-climate links in the Marine Boundary Layer
Coastal Megacities and their atmospheric implications
Combining seismology and space geodesy for accurate quantification of global earthquakes and Earth structure
Counting rational points on varieties
Demonstrating the benefits of Strategic Environmental Assessment using counterfactual analysis
Desert salts: Tracers of the ancient atmosphere
Design and Synthesis of Mcl-1 Inhibitors
Destroying a greenhouse gas: exploring the biochemistry of bacterial nitrous oxide reduction
Determining the factors that influence patient acceptability and perception of a medication in order to explore any relationships with adherence to therapy
Developing Calixarenes to Target i-Motif and G-quadruplex Nucleic Acids
Development of Nanostructures and Porous Materials for Hydrogen Storage or Carbon Dioxide Capture
Distance distribution and intersection numbers in finite Cayley graphs
DMSP catabolism in polar sea-ice algae: physiological and global implications
Do marine diatoms play an important global role in the production of DMS and its precursor DMSP?
Domesticating Smart Homes: How do households engage with new smart home energy technologies?
Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics with the Marine Coccolithophores
Embedding uncertainty in impact assessment: a strategy for increasing effectiveness
Eroding sand and mud mixtures in estuaries
Flow prediction and optimisation in a microfluidic device for spatial localisation of individual bacterial spores
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Geometry, error and superconvergence in visualization
How can historical evidence on the diffusion of energy technologies inform modelling of future diffusion in low carbon scenarios?
Identification of Genetic Networks Involved in Silicon Metabolism of Marine Diatoms
Identification of small molecule inhibitors of the human proinflammatory P2X4 receptor by rational drug design
Identifying the mechanisms determining the demography of migrants and residents in partially migratory populations
Impacts of climate and landuse change on water quality and adaptation strategy in the Upper Huai River Basin, China
Improving the behavioural realism of energy system models
Isoform-selective Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
Low carbon housing and health
Marine plankton respiration in a changing environment
Model theory and applications to number theory
Modelling Seismic Hazard: Partitioning Seismicity and Segmenting Faults
Molecular Investigations Tumour-Initiating Populations of Melanoma Cells for Clinical Applications
Nanostructured thin films for non-invasive drug delivery
Nonlinear waves on Very Large Floating Structures (VLFS)
Novel mechanisms in Blood Cancers drug-resistance
Novel therapeutics targeting the WWP2 Ubiquitin Ligase oncogene in malignant melanoma
Optimising drug properties by cocrystal formation
Pure and Applied Set Theory
Reconstructing Late Pleistocene climate change in the Near East from analyses of speleothems
Reducing hospital admissions due to medicines related events
Representations of cyclotomic quiver Hecke algebras
Representations of p-adic groups and Arithmetic
Role of Eigensolutions in Boundary Layer Transition
Role of Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) in the generation of neuronal diversity in the spinal cord
Shelf-sea gross and net production estimates from triple oxygen isotopes and oxygen-argon ratios in relation to phytoplankton physiology
Signalling during development and antibiotic production in the multicellular bacterium, Streptomyces coelicolor.
Smith normal form of incidence matrices
Sulfur isotopes and the evolution of the atmosphere
Synthesis of compounds to interact with i-Motif DNA
Synthesis of natural products and analogues using solid phase methodology.
The life cycle of wind-driven energy in the ocean
The role of DNA damage and repair in human lens cell physiology
The role of oscillating modes on the climate system
The Southern Ocean: Barrier or Blender?
Topics in Model Theory
Trace Metal Chemistry in Aerosol: Interactions with the Ocean
Tracing the origins of non-CO2 greenhouse gases in the tropics of S.E. Asia
Unintended consequences of biochar addition to soil
Uptake and Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Atlantic Ocean
What role do status, visibility, and imitation play in spillovers from one pro-environmental behaviour to another?
Winter nutrient processing, denitrification and carbon cycle feedbacks in continental shelf seas