Among the 65 proposals received by the Embassy, 21 projects and 3 PhD candidates have been selected by a French scientific evaluation committee in coordination with local partners from NUS, NTU, SMU and A*STAR. Once again, the overall quality of the proposals was excellent and projects have been awarded in many various fields.
The 21 selected projects are:
Physics:
FERMICOLD
Lasing in QUAsi-random Zinc oxide nanostructures array for sensING (QUAZING)
Self-assemblies of nanoparticles and nanowires confined within surfactant bilayers, investigated by AFM-Sarfus and Raman techniques
Super resolution imaging and tomography
Understanding cavitation in plants
Dilute Nitride Technology for High Speed Photonic
Spintronics based Lab-on-a-Chip Devices for Bio-detection Applications
Chemistry:
Research on Stability of Organic Dye Doped Hybrid Silica Nanoparticles
Biology, Medicine and Health:
Role of macrophages produced cytokines in Chikungunya virus infection in vivo: effect in severity and persistence of the Chikungunya pathology
Investigating Human sepsis and the molecular basis of its associated alteration in immune response
Statistical Structural Biology
Multi-scale study of Amyloid beta-peptide oligomer –inhibitors interaction: way to improve rational design of Alzheimer’s disease drugs
Economics and Business:
Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Design
Engineering:
Investigation on Defect Localization Techniques for Three-Dimensional (3D) Interconnects (Workshop)
Study of photosensitizer uptake in biological cells with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Stackable metal oxide based Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) devices: the materials and device structure solution
Information and Communication Technologies:
ASCII - A Storage Centric Internet Infrastructure
MULTILING
mCity: Street Scene Indexing and Retrieval
Speaker and language recognition
Vers des algorithmes auto-organisants dans les réseaux sans fil ambiants
Concerning MERLION PhD 3 proposals have been selected:
Biology, Medicine and Health:
Statistical Structural Biology
Engineering:
Stackable metal oxide based Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) devices: the materials and device structure solution
Information and Communication Technologies:
mCity: Street Scene Indexing and Retrieval
Waiting List:
Four Merlion proposals are on the waiting list. The decision will be made official in January 2010:
Mathematics:
Braids and mapping class groups (Workshop)
Physics:
Transport phenomena in nanoscale
Economics and Business:
The role of international institutional investors and banks in the transmission of financial crisis
Hindrances and Facilitators to enterprise growth in France and Singapore
All selected projects leaders can get in touch with the French embassy and/or their institution representatives in Merlion Program (see below) and provide the details of their future trips.
