UCL Research Catalyst Award Winners – 2015/16

A new round of Santander Universities Research Catalyst Awards launched in November 2015, with the aim of fostering new research collaborations between UCL and universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.

Colleagues from across UCL applied for funding, with the winners shown below.

The Catalyst Award winners will undertake their visits over the coming academic year, in order to develop collaborative activities with their chosen partners.

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.

UCL Award Winner	UCL Department	Partner Institution
Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel	Institute of Archaeology	Universidad de Los Andes; Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Boano, Camillo	Development Planning Unit	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Edwards, Stephen	Hazard Centre	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Hamilton, Ian	Energy Institute	Universidad Diego Portales
Kalaskar, Deepak	Division of Surgery and Interventional Science	Universidad Industrial de Santander
Mookerjee, Raj	Institute for Liver and Digestive Health	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Phelps, Nicholas	School of Planning	Universidad Catolica del Norte
Ricardo, Silva	Statistical Science	Universidade Federal do Ceara
Whitmore, David	Cell and Developmental Biology	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Zaidi, Zehra	Institute of Risk and Disaster Management	Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Zuluaga, Maria	Medical Physics and Bioengineering	Universidad Nacional de Colombia