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Name: Rosalind Teo Ling Wei

Project Title: Optimising production of specialist medical fibres used in tissue engineering applications.

Host: Dr Ifty Ahmed, Biocomposites Group, School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham.

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Name: Brett Metcalfe

Project Title: The Lilliput Effect in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction event

Host: Dr Richard Twitchett, School of Earth, Ocean & Environmental Sciences, Plymouth University

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Name: Derek Revill

Project Title: Rheo-NMR of a block copolymer system

Host: Dr Mike Ries, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds

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Name: Greg Ross

Project Title: An investigation of optical spin polarization of colour centres in diamond

Host: Dr Mark Newton, Department of Physics, Warwick University

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Name: Megan Lightfoot

Project Title: Light activated molecules that protect against UV induced damage to skin cells

Host: Dr James Dowden, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham

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Name: Stephen McGurk

Project Title: Probing the chemical evolution of the universe

Host: Dr Martin McCoustra, School of Chemistry, Heriot-Watt University

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Last Updated Thu, 14 August 2008