Meet the CITI-GENS ESRs

Iterative Approximate Analysis of Graph-Structured Data For Precision Medicine
Keywords: Knowledge extraction, scalable algorithms, graph processing, biomedical informatics, Cancer, Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
Partner Organisation: IBM Research-Zurich

Prachi Bendale
School of Pharmacy
Project title: Novel Molecular Tools to Tackle the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Emergency
Key words: Antimicrobial resistance, antibiotics, glycosylation, inhibitor, molecular tools
Supervisor: Professor Gerd Wagner
Partner Organisation: UK Health Security Agency

Ece Sila Bora
School of Natural and Built Environment
Innovative Ways of Seeing Cities through Cinema
Supervisor: Dr Gul Kacmaz Erk
Partner Organisation: Film Hub NI

Sejal Chandak
School of Law
The Governance and Management of Data in the Smart City
Supervisor: Professor John Morison
Partner Organisation: Belfast City Council

Swathine Chandrasekaran
School of Biological Sciences
Investigating the importance of queuosine (q) as a novel micronutrient in human ageing and brain health
Supervisor: Dr Brian Green
Partner: Devenish Nutrition

Simran Cheema
School of Biological Sciences
Maximizing the Clinical Impact of Donor Human Milk
Supervisor: Dr Simon Cameron
Partner Organisation: Human Milk Foundation

Charalampos Eleftheriadis
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Scalable Heart-Rate-Variability Analysis for Individualized Secure Health Monitoring
Supervisor: Dr Georgios Karakonstantis
Partner Organisation: B-Secur

Abdul-Akim Guseinov
School of Pharmacy
Understanding allosteric and biased GPCR signalling from computer simulations and mutagenesis
Supervisor: Dr Irina Tikhonova
Partner Organisation: NQuiX

Achmad Himawan
School of Pharmacy
Blood-free, microneedle-mediated, early diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Supervisor: Professor Ryan Donnelly
Partner Organisation: Johnson & Johnson

Anna Korelidou
School of Pharmacy
3D printing and bioprinting strategies to treat coronary heart disease
Supervisor: Dr Eneko Larrañeta
Partner Organisation: InnoUp Farma

Leonid Kusmenko
School of Arts, English and Languages
Immersive Technologies to drive inclusion of disabled musicians
Supervisor: Dr Franziska Schroeder
Partner Organisatons: Drake Music Northern Ireland and Be Another Lab Barcelona

Morgan Mattingly
School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work
Expanding & Evolving Education Resources of Refugees: From Camp to Resettlement
Supervisor: Dr Alison MacKenzie
Partner Organisation: Africa House (NI)

Ivan Palmisano
School of Maths & Physics
Project title: Complex nanophotonics for a quantum internet
Supervisor: Professor Mauro Paternostro
Partner Organisation: LightOn

José Pérez Tomás
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Overcoming Enzyme Poisoning in Bioprocesses
Supervisor: Dr Andrew Marr
Partner Organisation: Almac

Sweta Pramanick
Queen's Business School
Tackling Productivity Questions: A Long-Run Perspective
Supervisor: Philip Fliers
Partner Organisation: Central Bank of Ireland

Riddhi Salotra
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Seaweed bioactives for livestock nutrition and methane mitigation
Supervisor: Dr Pamela Walsh
Partner Organisation: Teagasc

Stanley Simoes
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fair AI for the Public Sector: Advancing the Technological Frontier
Supervisor: Dr Deepak Padmanabhan
Partner Organisations: IBM Research

Julia Volkmar
School of Law
Dealing with the Past in a Digital Age: Oral History in Transition
Supervisor: Dr Anna Bryson
Partner Organisations: British Library and Greek Oral History Association

Hangtian Zhou
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Innovative Energy Saving Process for Advanced Manufacturing
Supervisor: Dr Peter Martin
Partner Organisation: Maus GmbH