Fellowship focus: Combining research into head and neck cancer in India with expertise in medical imaging to investigate the stability of radiomics biomarkers.
This Fellowship will bring together Dr Thomas’s research into imaging of head and neck cancer (HNC) in India with expertise within Professor Evans’ group in CVSSP working in the field of radiomics (a quantitative approach to medical imaging) with AI and Big Data applications.
During her visit, Dr Thomas will investigate the stability of radiomics biomarkers to variations in image scanning and explore how the two groups can analyse the effects of differences in the tumour characteristics seen in India and the UK. She will also meet and establish links with the National Physical Laboratory’s Metrology for Medical Physics and Data Sciences groups and Royal Surrey Hospital’s Medical Physics and Nuclear Medicine Departments. Hannah’s collaboration with CVSSP is closely allied to Surrey’s newly-established AI Institute.
Fellowship focus: Bringing world-renowned expertise in Hellenistic philosophy and its influence on Roman law to Surrey’s Centre for Law and Philosophy.
A world expert in Hellenistic philosophy and its influence on Roman law, Dr Brouwer’s Fellowship will boost research within the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. During two visits in November 2022 and May 2023, he will present his highly acclaimed recent book on law and philosophy in the late Roman republic and deliver two seminars, helping Surrey to consolidate its position as a key junction between legal philosophical research and the study of the history of law.
Fellowship focus: Reducing assaults in Night-time Entertainment Districts through violence prevention and psychological treatments for people with drug and alcohol disorders.
A specialist in violence prevention in Night-time Entertainment Districts (NEDs), Professor Devilly will work with Dr Patton’s psychological interventions group to set up a collaborative research team focused on violence prevention and psychological treatment. Adapting Professor Devilly’s approach to a UK context, the team will liaise with the police, emergency services and support agencies with the ultimate aim of reducing assaults in NEDs and developing interventions for people who preload with drugs and alcohol.
Fellowship focus: Investigating how the timing of eating could relate to obesity and metabolic disorders and providing insights into dietary guidelines based on this research.
Understanding how the timing of food relates to increased risk of obesity and metabolic disorders is a hot topic which could lead to useful interventions such as time-restricted eating. Visiting Surrey in August 2022, Professor Crispim will collaborate with Professor Skene to characterise time-related dietary patterns in a large sample of Brazilian adults in relation to obesity. The aims of the Fellowship include the assessment for the first time of the temporal pattern of food intake of the Brazilian population and a presentation at the 26th Congress of European Sleep Research Society.
Fellowship focus: Engaging schools in STEM education through the Heat-Cool project, which teaches children about the links between heat and climate change impacts in cities through technology-enabled sessions.
Against a background of declining interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) education in schools throughout industrialised nations, Associate Professor Pfautsch will bring his specialist knowledge of urban heat to GCARE. He will collaborate with Professor Kumar to further develop the Centre’s Heat-Cool project – which helps school pupils to understand the relationship between heat and climate change impacts in cities through technology-enabled sessions – as well as delivering a public lecture on the subject.
Fellowship for external academics
This Fellowship brings together knowledge of women’s reproductive health with expertise in advanced data analysis. Yevheniya Sharhorodska will collaborate with Dr Kaakinen and her group, the Surrey Section of Statistical Multi-Omics, to investigate the relationship between recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components, including obesity, high blood pressure and increased lipid levels. Building on previously collected data and methods developed by Dr Kaakinen and colleagues for studying the shared genetics of multiple traits, a multi-phenotype statistical analysis will be conducted, the results of which will be presented at two important upcoming human genetics conferences.
Fellowship for external academics
A specialist in the analysis of dynamical systems, Dr Jason Bramburger will spend three weeks in the Department of Mathematics, working with Dr Santitissadeekorn to develop a data-driven tool which enables real-time prediction of disease spread, using Covid-19 data from the Royal College of GPs. The Fellowship will also benefit researchers from the Vet School and other research groups by providing an insight into how to apply machine learning techniques developed by Dr Bramburger to their research.
Fellowship for external academics
Dr Avdic, whose research centres on health and labour economics, will collaborate with Dr Moscelli to conduct an empirical analysis of the causes and consequences of nursing staff shortages on the efficiency and quality of healthcare provision. Using rich data on in-patient spells and hospital resources in Sweden, they will apply sophisticated econometric techniques to identify the impact of factors such as wage levels in different countries on staffing levels and healthcare quality.
Fellowship for external academics
A Professor in Contaminant Hydrogeology, Prof Yuesuo Yang will collaborate with academics in Surrey’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to exchange knowledge on biological technologies which can be used to treat heavy metal and hydrocarbon (eg. petroleum leakage) contaminations in groundwater and soil. As well as devising a sampling strategy using microbial techniques and developing a roadmap for achieving an effective investigation toolbox, the Fellowship aims to broaden knowledge through a seminar for researchers and a UK-China virtual workshop.
Fellowship for external academics
An expert in distributed systems, Professor Vigfusson will work with Professor Chockler to investigate the best way of combining emerging Remote Direct Memory Access hardware technologies with Software Guard Extension technology (which protects computer memory) in order to provide both security and scalability. Their work will benefit from the first-of-a-kind testbed (created at Surrey) combining the two technologies within a single distributed system. As well as leading a deep dive in this topic, Dr Vigfusson will also deliver a TEDx-style talk on ‘Why I teach people how to hack’, and a technical talk on his research.