{"id":2236,"date":"2015-03-19T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2015-04-01T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:07:17","slug":"southampton-professors-to-receive-prestigious-wolfson-research-merit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/southampton-professors-to-receive-prestigious-wolfson-research-merit-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors receive prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Tim Minshull\u00a0and Professor Hywel Morgan, have been awarded Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, for their outstanding\u00a0work.<\/p>\n<p>Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/TimMinshull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2287\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/TimMinshull-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"TimMinshull\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/TimMinshull-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/TimMinshull.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Tim Minshull (pictured left), a marine geophysicist who uses sound waves to study the structure of the Earth\u2019s crust beneath the oceans, was awarded for his research into \u2018The ocean-continent transition at magma-poor rifted margins\u2019. His current main research focus is on the processes by which continents break apart.<\/p>\n<p>Working with an international team of collaborators, Professor Minshull is studying these processes using sound waves generated at the ocean surface that travel deep into the earth beneath and then return to sensors placed on the ocean floor.\u00a0 His current research focuses on areas west of Spain and west of Ireland, where the crust has thinned so much that seawater has penetrated and reacted with the mantle beneath.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Minshull\u00a0says: \u201cI am delighted to receive this award and very much enjoy the stimulating research environment in Ocean and Earth Science at Southampton that has made it possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/hywel_morgan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2289\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/files\/2015\/03\/hywel_morgan.jpg\" alt=\"hywel_morgan\" width=\"179\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a>Professor Hywel Morgan (pictured right), a professor of Bioelectronics and Deputy Director of the University\u2019s Institute for Life Sciences, received his award for his research into \u2018Low cost Thin Film Transistor electronic systems for Healthcare and Diagnostics\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Morgan\u2019s research focuses on the fusion of low cost electronic devices with microfluidic systems for next generation miniature diagnostic systems.\u00a0 The aim is to develop sophisticated yet inexpensive analytical devices that have a wide range of applications, from allowing doctors to make faster and more accurate diagnosis, to answering fundamental research questions about disease.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Morgan says: \u201cI am thrilled and honoured to have received this award from the Royal Society and Wolfson Foundation.\u00a0 It will allow me and my group to push forward our research in this very exciting and fast moving interdisciplinary field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Tim Minshull\u00a0and Professor Hywel Morgan, have been awarded Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, for their outstanding\u00a0work. Jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the scheme aims to provide universities with additional support to enable them to attract science talent from overseas and retain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/evoice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}