Among the 69 proposals the Embassy received, 20 projects and 5 PhD candidates have been selected by a French scientific evaluation committee in coordination with local partners from NUS, NTU and A*STAR. Once again, the overall quality of the proposals was excellent and projects have been awarded in many various fields. 

The 20 selected projects are:

Mathematics:

• Parametrised quadratic inequalities in optimisation and computational geometry

Physics:

• Efficient Modelling and Design of Piezoelectric Photonic Crystals
• Les Houches Summer School of Physics in Singapore (Summer 2009)
• Surface Plasmons for Enhanced Optical Spectroscopy (SPEOS)

Chemistry:

• Design and synthesis of eco-compatible NHC-iron based catalysts - Towards green carbon-carbon bond formations

Biology, Medicine and Health:

• Enhanced production of Flavivirus envelope Domain III protein presented on retrovirus Gag and Adenovirus particles
• Substrate nanotopography modulates cell responses in 3D hydrogel scaffolds
• Impact of chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment of human lung cancer
• Modulation of hippocampal-prefrontal cortical long-term potentiation

Social Sciences:

• A tale of two countries: A comparative study of bilingual children’s literacy transfer in Singapore and France

Engineering:

• Enabling Technology for Wafer Level 3-D ICs
• Wide band gap semiconductor for the future photonics devices
• MICROstructured Fiber DEvices for Slow-Light Engineering (MICRODES)
• Pathological Tremor Modelling and Active Compensation via Functional Electrical Stimulations
• Nanowire-based devices for future integrated circuits
• Colorimetric microfluidic biosensors for early immunodiagnostics
• Developing novel particle formation techniques to enhance the bioavailability of medicinal compounds

Information and Communication Technologies:

• Remote visualization of large collections of 3D data
• IM@PRO: Intelligent Maintenance And PROgnostic
• SinFra'09

For MERLION PhD, the selected proposals are:

Mathematics:

• Codes and Secret Sharing Schemes

Physics:

• Dilute nitride technology for high speed photonics
• Ultracold fermions in 2D honeycomb lattice: Quantum Hall Effect in Effective Magnetic Field

Engineering:

• Pathological Tremor Modelling and Active Compensation via Functional Electrical Stimulations
• Molecular Design of Complex molecule Logic Gate