Active Research Projects
Active Project Breakdown
The following graph shows the number of active projects (Full National Service and National Capability Service) per scientific field and per application class (to see the list of projects which have expired, please go to this page):
| Chemistry (23) |  2 13 8 |
Class A (10) Class B (45) Class C (71) |
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| Computer science (8) | 0 1 7 |
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| Earth sciences (7) | 2 5 0 |
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| Engineering (19) | 1 4 14 |
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| Life sciences (27) | 0 5 22 |
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| Physics (30) | 3 13 14 |
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| Others (12) | 2 4 6 |
Active research projects per application class & scientific field
Class A Projects
There are currently 10 active Class A projects:
| Code | PI | Title |
|---|---|---|
| dcast001a | Dr. Turlough Downes | Turbulence in molecular clouds: beyond magnetic flux freezing |
| dsast008a | Dr. Gareth Murphy | Particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in near and mildly relativistic shocks |
| ndear010a | Prof. Peter Lynch | Regional Climate Ensemble Simulations for Ireland – the impact of climate change on coastal and river flooding. |
| ndear011a | Dr. Tido Semmler | Simulating the Global Climate with the EC-EARTH Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Model |
| ndeng003a | Dr. Marcus Greferath | Performance Analaysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Derived from Finite Inversive Spaces |
| ndphy010a | Dr. Niall English | Effects of electric and electromagnetic fields on nanoparticle-protein systems |
| nmphy002a | Dr. Jiri Vala | Topological phases in quantum lattice systems |
| tcphy017a | Dr. Mike Peardon | Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics |
| tiche018a | Dr. Michael Nolan | EMOIN: Engineering Metal Oxide Interfaces |
| tiche020a | Dr. Simon Elliott | Simulating the growth of ultrathin materials for nanoelectronic devices (SIGMUND) |
Class B Projects
There are currently 45 active Class B projects:
| Code | PI | Title |
|---|---|---|
| dcast002b | Dr. Turlough Downes | Turbulence in molecular clouds: beyond magnetic flux freezing |
| dcast003b | Dr. Stephen O'Sullivan | Second-Order Fermi Acceleration in AGN Radio Lobes |
| dccom025b | Dr. Michael Scott | Breaking ECC2K-130 |
| dclif015b | Dr. Mary O'Connell | Sequencing and comparative genomic analyses of the Cetacean clade |
| dsast002b | Dr. Andrew Lim | Numerical Studies of the Evolution of Structures in H II Regions. |
| dsast005b | Dr. Gareth Murphy | 3D PIC simulations of near and mildly relativistic shocks |
| dsear002b | Dr. Estelle Roux | Joint inversion of magnetotelluric and surface wave measurements: application to a real dataset from Northern Canada |
| ndear007b | Prof. Peter Lynch | HiWinds: High resolution forecasts for wind energy applications |
| ndear008b | Dr. Gareth O'Brien | Seismic source modelling and propagation in complex 3D Earth models |
| ndear009b | Dr. Rodrigo Caballero | Present and future statistics of extreme European storms |
| ndeng004b | Dr. Marcus Greferath | Performance Analaysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes Derived from Finite Inversive Spaces |
| ndlif012b | Prof. Denis Shields | Functional variation in evolution and in populations. |
| ndphy011b | Dr. Niall English | Computational Modelling of Materials for Artificial Photosynthesis |
| ngear003b | Dr. Michael Hartnett | Coupled Ocean-atmosphere Climate Modelling |
| ngeng011b | Prof. Peter McHugh | Development of Discrete Finite Element Cell Model |
| ngeng024b | Dr. Patrick McGarry | ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ORTHOPAEDIC FRACTURE FIXATION AND JOINT REPLACEMENT DEVICES |
| nmlif017b | Dr. Davide Pisani | Inferring the eukaryotic tree of life using single and multi gene families |
| nmphy003b | Dr. Jonivar Skullerud | Hot QCD simulations on anisotropic lattices |
| tcche003b | Prof. Graeme Watson | Electronic Structure Studies of Transparent Semiconductors |
| tcche008b | Dr. Jeremy Allen | Defect Properties of Tin Monoxide |
| tcche009b | Prof. Graeme Watson | Optimizing the Oxygen Storage Capacity of Ce1-xMxO2 (M = Noble Metal) |
| tcche010b | Prof. Graeme Watson | The behaviour of hydrogen defects in p-type oxides |
| tcche011b | Prof. Graeme Watson | Electronic structure calculations of dopants in SnO2 |
| tcche012b | Dr. Benjamin Morgan | The role of oxygen vacancies in the ferromagnetism of V-doped TiO2 |
| tcche014b | Dr. Natasha Galea | Modeling Oxidation States of Ce within Cerium Oxide using DFT+U and Hybrid-DFT : Choosing an Appropriate U |
| tclif006b | Dr. Gemma Kinsella | The Retinol Binding Protein System and Type 2 Diabetes |
| tcphy007b | Dr. Sri Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju | Defects and impurities induced magnetism in Oxide Semiconductors and Insulators |
| tcphy008b | Dr. Charles Patterson | Spin and charge polarons and their impact on magnetism and charge transport in oxides |
| tcphy011b | Dr. Nadjib Baadji | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Magnetic Molecules |
| tcphy012b | Dr. Maria Stamenova | Ab initio simulations of spin-dynamics |
| tcphy013b | Dr. Claude Ederer | Functional properties of multiferroic heterostructures |
| tcphy015b | Dr. Thomas Archer | Multiferroic tunneling junctions |
| tcphy016b | Dr. Ivan Rungger | Development of a large scale ab initio electron transport simulation program |
| tcphy018b | Dr. Mike Peardon | Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics |
| tiche013b | Dr. Damien Thompson | Atom-scale structure, dynamics and energetics of alkanethiol bilayers as nanostructure-directing agents |
| tiche015b | Dr. Michael Nolan | Oxidation of Ternary Shape Memory Alloys Based on NiTi using First Principles Simulation |
| tiche017b | Dr. Damien Thompson | The interaction of room temperature ionic liquids with phospholipid bilayers: a computational investigation |
| tiche021b | Dr. Michael Nolan | Supported Metal Oxide Clusters as Reactive Catalytic Centres |
| tiche023b | Dr. Michael Nolan | Surface Reactions at Metal Oxides from Hybrid Density Functional Theory |
| tiphy008b | Prof. Stephen Fahy | Nanoscale Simulators in Ireland (NSI) Graduate Programme Practicals |
| tiphy009b | Dr. Maria Elena Grillo | Charge retention in SONOS non-volatile memory devices: oxide-nitride interfaces and deposition process |
| tiphy012b | Dr. Giorgos Fagas | Electronic Properties of Oxidised Silicon Nanowires |
| uclif007b | Dr. Charles Spillane | Identifying Taxon Restricted Genes in Higher Plants and Epigenomics of genome dosage in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| ulche001b | Dr. Jacek Zeglinski | Surface Structure of Biological Hydroxyapatite from First Principles Simulation |
| uleng003b | Prof. Michael McCarthy | Mechanical behaviour of interlinked carbon nanotubes for nanocomposites |
Class C Projects
There are currently 71 active Class C projects:
| Code | PI | Title |
|---|---|---|
| cslif003c | Dr. Gianpiero Cavalleri | Identification of brain endophenotypes in temporal lobe epilepsy through the application of quantitative MRI |
| dcche003c | Dr. John Gallagher | Molecular modelling and ab initio calculations of (i) Methyl-N-(methylbenzoyl)-N-(2-pyridyl)benzamides and their halo analogues and (ii) pyridinecarboxamides |
| dcche004c | Prof. Conor Long | Estimating the potential energy surfaces around pi-coordinated arene ligands in (eta-Arene)Cr(CO)3 complexes |
| dccom020c | Dr. Dimitri Perrin | Large-scale multi-agent simulations of disease spread in large human populations |
| dccom021c | Prof. Heather Ruskin | Multi-Layer Models of Epigenetic Mechanisms |
| dccom024c | Mr. Rejwanul Haque | Semantic Information as Source Context in Phrase-Based SMT |
| dccom026c | Mr. Tsuyoshi Okita | Hybrid Machine Translation |
| dccom027c | Dr. Jie Jiang | Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation Augmented with Combinatory Categorial Grammars |
| dclif009c | Mr. Thomas Walsh | The evolution of a placental specific regulatory network. |
| dclif011c | Mr. Thomas Walsh | Selection analysis on key interacting partners of a placental regulatory network |
| dclif013c | Ms. Claire Morgan | Sequencing and Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Cetacea |
| dclif014c | Ms. Noeleen Loughran | Adaptive evolution of mammalian imprinted genes |
| dclif016c | Ms. Claire Morgan | Evolution of the Mammalian Innate Immune System |
| dcphy001c | Dr. Lampros Nikolopoulos | Time-dependent Schrodinger Equation of Multielectron Systems in an Electromagnetic Field: Parallel implementations of PTDSE code |
| dsast006c | Dr. Sean Delaney | Investigation of Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Shocks using Parallel Computing Techniques |
| dsast007c | Dr. Maria Chernyakova | FERMI Data Analysis |
| dsphy002c | Dr. Volker Braun | A Prelude to Numerical Calabi-Yau Geometry |
| dteng001c | Mr. Gerard Heapes | Massively parallel architectures for particle methods. |
| icphy003c | Mr. Alin Elena | Time Dependent Tight Binding+U: Applications to Fluorescent Molecules |
| ndast002c | Mr. Alex Byrne | Particle Acceleration In A Turbulent Magnetic Field |
| ndlif016c | Dr. Jennifer Commins | UniPrime2: a web service providing easier Universal Primer design |
| ndmat003c | Prof. Gary McGuire | Minimum Number of Clues Problem |
| ndmat004c | Prof. Frederic Dias | Numerical computation of overturning waves |
| ndmat005c | Prof. Frederic Dias | VOLNA |
| ndphy012c | Dr. Simone Meloni | Amorphous-Crystal phase transition in Silicon nanoparticles embedded in amorphous SiO2 matrices |
| ndphy013c | Dr. Simone Meloni | Optical properties of nc-Si embedded in a-SiO2 |
| ndphy014c | Dr. Grazia Cottone | Large Scale Conformational Transitions In Ligand Gated Ion Channels – Benchmarking |
| ndphy015c | Dr. Donal MacKernan | Temperature Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells |
| ndphy016c | Dr. Simone Meloni | Validation of a new method for the acceleration of atomistic simulations: application to the homogeneous nucleation of undercooled Lennard-Jones liquids. |
| ndphy017c | Ms. Florentina Tofoleanu | Structural and stability elements of amyloid fibrils near lipid membranes |
| ngeng014c | Ms. Riona Ni Ghriallais | Investigation of Vascular Injury in the Superficial Femoral Artery Due to Stenting |
| ngeng015c | Ms. Emer Feerick | Development of Advanced Analysis and Testing Methodologies for the Design of a Novel Device for the Fixation of Proximal Humerus Fractures |
| ngeng016c | Ms. Nicola Kelly | Computational Analysis of Normal and Postoperative Knee Joint Mechanics |
| ngeng017c | Mr. Cathal Tomas | The optimisation of the straightening process for stainless steel wires |
| ngeng018c | Ms. Caroline Hopkins | A computational investigation into the delamination of biomedical stent coatings |
| ngeng019c | Mr. Enda Dowling | Investigation of the Role of the Cytoskeleton in the Response of Chondrocytes to Mechanical Stimuli |
| ngeng020c | Ms. Claire Conway | 3D Finite Element Modelling of Coronary Stent Implantation |
| ngeng021c | Mr. James Grogan | Towards the estimation of minimum strut sizes in coronary stents |
| ngeng022c | Mr. Eamonn O'Mairtin | A mixed-mode cohesive zone model for cell-substrate interfaces |
| ngeng023c | Ms. Caitriona Killeen | Hydrodynamic Modelling of the Interaction of Arrays of Wave Energy Converters |
| ngeng025c | Mr. Neil Duffy | Optimisation of Biomass-Fuelled Systems using CFD |
| nmcom003c | Ms. Leanne Haggerty | Evolution of Homology Networks |
| nmlif007c | Prof. Ann Burnell | Annotation & analysis of the Panagrolaimus superbus genome. |
| nmlif009c | Mr. Brian Daly | Genome Assembly of Next-generation Sequencing Data |
| nmlif010c | Ms. Therese Anne Holton | Inferring the eukaryotic tree of life |
| nmlif011c | Ms. Aoife Doherty | Comparison of gene duplicaton and loss in mammals,with the evolution of their protein-protein interaction, gene regulatory and metabolic networks |
| nmlif012c | Mr. Lahcen Campbell | MicroRNAs and the evolution of Arthropoda |
| nmlif013c | Ms. Carla Cummins | Reconstructing ancestral metabolism of the YESS group |
| nmlif014c | Ms. Sinead Hamilton | Use it or loose it: Sensory adaptation and evolution |
| nmlif015c | Mr. Peter Clarke | Metabolic network evolution in Escherichia coli |
| nmlif016c | Dr. Omar Rota Stabelli | DATING ARTHROPOD RELATIONSHIPS USING RELAXED CLOCK, SOFT CONSTRAINS AND DIVERSE PHYLOGENOMIC DATASETS |
| tcche013c | Dr. Natasha Galea | Modeling Oxidation States of Ce within Cerium Oxide using DFT+U and Hybrid-DFT : Choosing an Appropriate U |
| tccom001c | Mr. Alfredo Maldonado Guerra | Word discrimination and sense clustering |
| tclif007c | Mr. Xiaowei Jiang | Evolution of bacterial secretion systems |
| tclif008c | Mr. Matthew Teasdale | Population Genetics of Modern and Ancient Cattle |
| tclif009c | Ms. Aine Rourke | Detection of Remote Homologs between Homo sapiens and Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| tclif010c | Dr. Mario Ali Fares | Whole-genome analysis of co-evolution and functional divergence |
| tcphy014c | Mr. Stephen Power | Magnetic and electronic properties of disordered graphene systems |
| tglif001c | Dr. Orla O'Sullivan | Metagenomics for Food and Health |
| tiche014c | Mr. Jakub Baran | Theoretical Investigation of Adsorption of Metal-Phthalocyanies (M=Co,Sn,Pb) on Ag(111) surface. |
| tiche016c | Dr. Simon Elliott | Interim time for SIGMUND (#4092) |
| tiche019c | Dr. Michael Nolan | First Principles Simulations of Gold Nanoparticle Binding Events |
| tiche022c | Dr. Michael Nolan | Testing of OpenMX Scaling |
| tiphy010c | Dr. Giorgos Fagas | Electronic Properties of Oxidised Silicon Nanowires |
| tiphy011c | Dr. Jim Greer | Monte Carlo Configuration Generation for Electronic Structure Computations |
| tiphy013c | Mr. Marios Iakovidis | Computer Simulations for Technology Design: A Divide, Reduce and Conquer Algorithm for Matrix Diagonalization. |
| ucche001c | Dr. Noel O'Boyle | Computational design of molecular wires for solar cells |
| uclif008c | Dr. Marcus Claesson | Genome analysis of gut microbiota and microbiomes |
| ucphy004c | Mr. Tadhg Morgan | Coherent Control of Atoms On Atom Chips Using STIRAP |
| uleng002c | Prof. Michael McCarthy | Mechanical behaviour of interlinked carbon nanotubes for nanocomposites and their potential pathogenicity |
| uleng004c | Dr. Denis O'Mahoney | Combined 3D finite element and response surface methods to predict the strength of adhesively bonded composite structures under impact loading |
UCD Users
Users who have been granted access to the dedicated University College Dublin (UCD) resources on Stokes:
| User Name |
|---|
| Mr. Alan Fernihough |
| Dr. Ailis Fagan |
| Mr. Antonio Antonio Dos Reis Morgado |
| Prof. Brendan Loftus |
| Pr. David Coker |
| Ms. Cliona Roche |
| Mr. Colin Torney |
| Mr. Daniel Montemayor |
| Dr. Donal MacKernan |
| Mr. Dominique Schreiber |
| Mr. Gregory Duggan |
| Mr. Eanna O' Keefe |
| Mr. Enrico Rubagotti |
| Dr. Eva Rivera |
| Dr. Fabian Sievers |
| Prof. Frederic Dias |
| Mr. Fergal Duffy |
| Ms. Florentina Tofoleanu |
| Dr. Grazia Cottone |
| Mr. Gleb Solomentsev |
| Mr. Gohar Abbasi |
| Dr. Niall Haslam |
| Mr. Huan Chen |
| Mr. Hoffmann Hendrik |
| Ms. Ying Huang |
| Dr. Ivan Lokmer |
| Dr. Jennifer Commins |
| Mr. Jeremy Lucid Lucid |
| Mr. John Moloney |
| Pr. Joao Marques-Silva |
| Dr. Konstantinos Drakakis |
| Dr. Karen Power |
| Mr. Cathal Leahy |
| Dr. Vladimir Lobaskin |
| Mr. Lukasz Szmit |
| Mr. Conor Mahon Mahon |
| Mr. Morad El-Hendawy El-Hendawy |
| Mr. Michael Fitzgerald |
| Mr. Minh-Phuoc Huynh |
| Dr. Nazario Tartaglione |
| Dr. Nicolae-Viorel Buchete |
| Dr. Niall English |
| Mr. Predrag Kukic |
| Mr. Paul Nolan |
| Dr. Peadar O'Gaora |
| Mr. Praveen Surendran |
| Mr. Padraig Timoney Timoney |
| Mr. Ravindra Pushker |
| Dr. Rodrigo Caballero |
| Mr. Ritwik Kavathekar |
| Ms. Ruth Lynch |
| Ms. Rachel McBride |
| Mr. Ronan Murphy |
| Mr. Ronan Prendergast |
| Dr. Run Long |
| Mr. saurabh Agrawal |
| Mr. Sean Penston |
| Mr. Seamus Flynn |
| Dr. Simone Meloni |
| Mr. Val Chulkov |
| Mr. Wajira Mirihanage |
| Ms. Winnie Ryan |
| Mr. Yue Fan |
| Dr. Zoltan Neufeld |
| Mr. Philip Cardiff |
| Mr. Ramanathan Padmanaban |
| Dr. Marc Birtwistle |
| Ms. Lisa Banahan |
| Ms. Catherine Kelly |
| Mr. Michael Leonard |
NUIM Users
Users who have been granted access to the dedicated National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) resources on Stokes:
| User Name |
|---|
| Dr. Ahmet Bolukbasi |
| Ms. Aoife Doherty |
| Mr. Brian Daly |
| Ms. Carla Cummins |
| Dr. David Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Dhagash Mehta |
| Dr. Davide Pisani |
| Dr. Gemma Kinsella |
| Dr. Gayle Philip |
| Mr. John Fitzpatrick |
| Dr. Jonivar Skullerud |
| Prof. John Ringwood |
| Mr. Lahcen Campbell |
| Ms. Leanne Haggerty |
| Dr. Omar Rota Stabelli |
| Mr. Patrick Marshall |
| Mr. Peter Clarke |
| Mr. Roberto Fueda |
| Dr. Rodney Teck |
| Ms. Sinead Hamilton |
| Mr. Stuart Longhorn |
| Mr. Seamus Cotter |
| Ms. Therese Holton |
| Dr. Vanush Paturyan |
| Mrs. Victoria Svinti |
| Mr. David Alvarez |
Expired Projects
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