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Young Scholars at the IAS Awarded Research Grants
Getting funding for research projects through grant proposals can be a long and difficult process for many academics and research personnel. In the recent General Research Fund (GRF) grant application exercise, IAS Junior Fellows successfully secured funds to push forward their research ideas towards the set goals and objectives.
The General Research Fund is an annual research grant administered by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council to aid academics employed by the local institutions in conducting impactful research projects. Projects’ academic quality, originality of research ideas, potentials for social, cultural or economic application are some assessment criteria to name. Below are some of the projects supported by the GRF funding this year.
| IAS Junior Fellow & Field | Faculty Collaborator | Research Project |
| CHAN Shuning (Civil & Environmental Engineering) | Joseph H. W. LEE | Disinfection of Treated Sewage by Chlorine Jets |
| Clarence Edward CHOI (Civil & Environmental Engineering) | Charles NG | Impact of Geophysical Flows on Rigid Barriers with and without Cushioning Materials: Physical Modelling |
| Kim CHOW Hei Man (Life Science) | Karl HERRUP | A Novel ATM-NRF Axis Facilitates Mito-nuclear Communication in Modulating Fuel Metabolism in Response to Cellular Energy Demand - Implications for Cerebellar Neurodegeneration in Ataxia-telangiectasia |
| DONG Shoucheng (Electronic & Computer Engineering) | Ching W. TANG | Development of Close-Space Sublimation Processes for OLED Fabrication |
| GUAN Dongshi (Physics) | Robert QI Zhong TONG Penger | Experimental Study of the Volumetric and Viscoelastic Properties of Mitotic Cells and Their Responses to External Mechanical Cues |
| HUANG Duruo (Civil & Environmental Engineering) | WANG Gang | Developing Parametric Models for Strong-motion Amplification Considering 3D Topography and Subsurface Soils |
| NI Rong (Chemical & Biological Engineering) | CHAU Ying | Development of Single Co-Delivery Platform for Stepwise Release of Plasmid DNA and Small Molecular Drugs (Paclitaxel) |
| YAO Shuhuai | Real-time Monitoring of Conformational Changes of DNA–Peptide Co-assembled Viral Mimics in a Nanofluidic Platform | |
| XU Duoduo (Social Science) | WU Xiaogang | Socioeconomic Segregation, School Choice, and Geography of Educational Inequality in Hong Kong |
| YE Fei (Life Science) | ZHANG Mingjie | Structure of Disc1 Tetramer and its Interactions with its Target Proteins |
| ZHANG Ting (Physics) | SHENG Ping | A Theoretical Investigation of Berry Phase-induced Metal-insulator Transitions in Disordered, Two-dimensional, Anti-dot Graphene |