Shortlist for the 2011 European SET awards

The finalists have been announced for the 2011 SET Awards

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

Mark Baker of the University of Oxford - Automatic meshing for turbo-machinery simulations.
Ewan Gunn of the University of Cambridge - Boundary layer ingesting fans for future aircraft.
Luke McKay-Smith of the University of Sheffield - Fibre-metal laminates subject to ballistic impact.

BIOLOGY

Benjamin Durham of the University of Leeds - Novel HDAC inhibitors prevent neural cell death.
Katarzyna Kozyrska of the University of Dundee - The Saccharomyces cerevisiae elongator complex.
Victoria Franks of Aberystwyth University - Brains or daring? Shoaling fish follow the leader.

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Rachel Perry of the University of Manchester - Biobutanol & acetone product purification by distillation.
Andrew Smith of Imperial College -The effect of proppant types on production from hydraulically fractured oil and gas reservoirs.
Laura Wedell of the University of Sheffield - Design and optimisation of a small scale biomass heating system.

CHEMISTRY

Timothy Hele of the University of Oxford - Reaction rates for electronically non-adiabatic systems.
Ben Martindale of the University of Oxford - What constitutes the flavour of garlic?
Daniel Wood of the University of Reading - pH tuneable hydrogelators for water purification.

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Julie Clarke of University College Dublin – A study of buildings affected by Metro North.
Ashley Thompson of the University of Durham – Numerical simulation of groundwater flows.
Stephen Thompson of the University of Bristol – Redevelopment of the Colston Hall.

ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Neil Howarth of the University of Southampton - Telemetry for electric vehicles.
Gary Lam of Imperial College - Crosstalk in large scale sensor arrays.
Michael Salter of the University of Bristol - Radio transmission through the Greenland ice sheet.

ENVIRONMENT & EARTH SCIENCE

Stephen Hicks of the University of Liverpool - Mantle flow beneath the southern Andean margin.
William Hutchison of the University of Oxford - Growth and thermal evolution of an Andesitic lava dome.
Catriona Reynolds of the University of Cambridge - Modelling CO2 storage

FOOD SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & NUTRITION

Emily Albon of the University of Surrey - The effect of krill vs. fish oil on endothelial dysfunction.
Duncan Fairbrother of the University of Newcastle - Food consumption by homeless people.
Marie Oakes of Coventry University - The impact of studying at university on the food choices of students.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Kirsty McNaught of the University of Oxford - Automatic diabetic wound classification.
Sam Ratcliff of the University of York - Automated synthesis of quantum algorithms.
Volker Seeker of Technische Universität Berlin - Simulator for an embedded multi-core architecture.

MARITIME TECHNOLOGY

Peter Dow of the University of Strathclyde – Carbon capture and storage.
Scott McLaughlan of the University of Oxford – Wave loading on offshore wind turbines.
Mikhail Soloviev of Imperial College – Wave power generation device.

MATERIALS

Hannah Aitchison of the University of St Andrews - From flatlands into the third dimension.
Edward Pickering of the University of Cambridge - Boundary precipitation in Allvac 718 Plus.
Sarah Tesh of the University of Bristol - The degradation of aqueous pollutants.

MATHEMATICS

Niko Laaksonen of University College London - Discrete mean values of dirichlet L-functions.
Claire McIlroy of the University of Leeds - Break up of polymeric Fluids.
Jan Jachnik of Imperial College - Spinning and rolling of an unbalanced disk.


MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Ross Doak of Heriot-Watt University – Design of a spherical mobile robot.
Rian Edman of Cork Institute of Technology - Testing and evaluation of a six Stroke Engine.
Benjamin Lindley of the University of Cambridge - Waste incineration in a pressurised water reactor.

PHARMACOLOGY

Charlotte Cooper of the University of Leeds - Orexinergic modulation of upper airway in a rat.
Caroline Graham of the University of Cambridge - The C-terminus of TRPV1.
Daniel Henderson of the University of Manchester - Does statin use influence breast density?

PHYSICS

Flaviu Cipcigan of the University of Edinburgh - Quantum Computing theory and practice.
Alexander Gaunt of the University of Cambridge - Coherent optical sculpting.
Philip Goddard of the University of Surrey - Dipole Resonances.

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