Dr Axel Hagermann's work within the OU's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) has earned him an Aurora Fellowship from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
Dr Carly Stevens’ research into grasslands made the world’s experts sit up and take notice as soon as she started studying the subject.
As one of the OU’s post-doctoral research fellows, Clare examines the early stages of mountain belt growth. “If we figure out how quickly mountains rise, we can also predict the speed at which they erode, which gives us lots of other vital information.
Dr Dave Clancy is excited by his research to “investigate one of the last great unsolved mysteries in science – ageing”.
Dr Eliie Dommett is keen to continue her neuroscience research over the next decade and beyond – and wants others to follow in her footsteps.
Dr Jon Golding is a Lecturer in Health Sciences whose discoveries could ultimately change the lives of people with neurological disorders and disabilities.
Dr Mahesh Anand is a Research Council Academic Fellow at the OU's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR).
His main research interest is petrology, particularly lunar and Martian samples because I, like most humans, ultimately want to find out how similar other planets are to our own.
A recent Aurora fellowship confirms Dr Manish Patel is becoming one of Britain's leading researchers into the Martian surface UV environment.
The award from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, linked in to the European Space Agency's long-term programme to explore the Solar System, is one of a series of highlights in a career that currently sees Manish prepare a spectrometer to measure the weather on the Red Planet.
Dr Maria Velasco-Garcia’s innovative work in developing multiple bio-marker sensing devices to assess animal’s health and welfare could have a significant impact in the early diagnosis of many diseases and could also be used as an initial screening test in zoonotic disease surveillance at abattoirs in the event of some food scares.
Dr Matt Balme is researching how climate change on the Red Planet shapes its surface – and working both at the OU and as a NASA-funded research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, gives him the enormous benefit of a dual perspective.
Dr Rosa Hoekstra, a lecture in the OU's department of Life Sciences, is aiming to discover the biological mechanisms that explain the genetic link in autism.
Dr Sarah Sherlock, a Research Fellow in the OU's Department of Earth Sciences, leads the field in developing techniques to extract information from rocks and minerals.
Dr Stephen Lewis, who works in the OU's Department of Physics and Astronomy, constructs models for comparative studies of dynamical meteorology and climate processes on different planets.
Dr Tiffany Barry is researching the Earth’s internal convection in the region known as the upper mantle, and how mantle ‘stirring’ affects the Earth’s evolving chemistry
