Trinity Achieves Success in 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships Awards

Eight Trinity research proposals secured funding under the recently announced 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships results.

The Postdoctoral Fellowship funding programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) supports researchers’ careers and fosters excellence in research. The awards are the European Union’s flagship programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training.

The eight awardees are drawn from right across the Trinity research community — School of Chemistry, CONNECT (Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre), School of Physics, School of Histories and Humanities, Centre for Language and Communication Studies (CLCS), and School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies. The total amount awarded to Trinity was €1,629,235.

There were a total of 193 proposals from Ireland evaluated by the programme, of which were 34 proposals selected for funding. This represents a success rate of 17.6% for Ireland in comparison to an overall success rate for the call of 15.8%. The projects awarded funding in Trinity include:

1. Joanna Bialek, supervised by Professor Nathan Hill from the Centre for Language and Communication Studies (CLCS). Tibetan Obsolete Mortuary practices and afterlife Beliefs. Language conservatism of religious writings in the service of Proto-Bodish reconstruction (TOMB)
2. Christine Collins, supervised by Professor Kate Maguire from the School of Physics. Understanding kilonova diversity using radiative transfer simulations with realistic binary neutron star (KN-TRANSFER)
3. Carlos Grigsby, supervised by Professor Omar Garcia from the school of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies. Worlding Central American Literature (WOCAL)
4. Rishu Raj, supervised by Professor Dan Kilper from CONNECT. Design and development of energy-efficient next-generation communication networks (ENGCoN)
5. Fabio Santanni, supervised by Professor Mathias Senge from the School of Chemistry. Control exchange-coupling Interactions in poRphyrin-based Quantum logIc gaTes (CIRQuIT).
6. Arup Sarkar, supervised by Professor Alessandro Lunghi from the School of Physics. Quantum Sensing with Metal-Organic Frameworks: DFT, Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Exploration (SEQUOIA)
7. Asmita Sen, supervised by Professor Alessandro Lunghi from the School of Physics. Machine Learning-Assisted simulation of Metalloenzyme’s Reactivity, Machine Learning-Assisted simulation of Metalloenzyme’s Reactivity (MALAMER)
8. Tess Wingard, supervised by Professor Ruth Karras from the School of Histories and Humanities. Sexuality in Crisis: The Black Death and Social Control in Fourteenth-Century England (SiC)