Each award lasts for three years. The lead investigators and the projects concerned are:

Dr Alexandre Anesio (School of Geographical Sciences)
'Are viruses major ecological and evolutionary drivers of microbial community change in low-temperature habitats?'

Professor Jens Eggers (School of Mathematics)
'Geometrical description of free-surface singularities and cusp universality.'

Professor Paul Valdes (School of Geographical Sciences)
'Assessing the tropical climate over the last glacial/interglacial.'