After all that travel, and yet some more, Bachtold, who this week was awarded a European Young Investigator award by the European Research
Organisations Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS) and the European Science Foundation (ESF), is now enjoying the feeling of being in the right place for both his professional and personal life.
Not exact matches
Instead this period was marked by significant underinvestment «at a time when public finances were healthy», according to Charles Davis,
head of macroeconomics at the Centre for Economics and Business
Research (Cebr), the organisation that carried out the r
Research (Cebr), the
organisation that carried out the
researchresearch.
Cancer
Research UK's
head of tobacco control, Elspeth Lee, said her
organisation would back an amendment to current EU legislation allowing picture warnings to be placed on the front as well as the back
of packs, as in Australia and New Zealand.
«Although the UK punches well above its weight in science, we have yet to see the UK reach its potential in commercialising the significant
research output that has resulted,» says Nelson Phillips,
head of the
organisation and strategy group
of Tanaka Business School, based at Imperial College London.
The International Bird
Research Rescue Center, one
of two
organisations heading up the treatment
of oiled birds in the Gulf, claims that 50 to 80 per cent
of the birds treated survive at least to the point
of where they can be released back into the wild.
If a civilised discussion with your supervisor fails to resolve the problem, you should try to get objective advice from someone else, says Janet Metcalfe,
head of Vitae, an
organisation devoted to advancing the careers
of research staff and doctoral researchers.
The panel's concerns are shared by John Chisholm,
head of Britain's biggest defence technology
organisation, the Defence
Research Agency.
To ensure his reforms are carried out, Fillon has decided to replace Francois Kourilsky as the
head of France's largest
research organisation, the CNRS.
A new study published in eLife and
headed by Jordi Casanova and Sofía J. Araújo, both scientists at the Institute for
Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB - CSIC), describes a cell communication mechanism that allows the
organisation of the extracellular matrix and how this structure affects cells through a feedback system.
So - called «retroactive verification» that nothing has been spirited away «will be very difficult, since we do not have a reliable baseline for Syria», says Andreas Persbo,
head of VERTIC, a verification
research organisation based in London.
The reform was necessary and was welcomed by the country's major science
organisations (the German
Research Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], the Max Planck Society and the German Science Council) and the
organisation that represents university
heads (Association
of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions, or Hochschulrektorenkonferenz), although the HRG has been one
of the most hotly debated topics in the country's academic circles.
The appointment
of a scientist at the cutting edge
of research to the
head of the country's largest medical
research organisation is a break with tradition.
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Alain Destexhe,
Research Director
of Unité de Neurosciences CNRS, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Bruno Weber, Professor
of Multimodal Experimental Imaging, Universitaet Zuerich, Switzerland Carmen Gruber Traub, Fraunhofer, Germany Costas Kiparissides, Certh, Greece Cyril Poupon,
Head of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy unit
of NeuroSpin, University Paris Saclay, Gif - sur - Yvette, France David Boas, Professor
of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, University
of Pennsylvania Hanchuan Peng, Associate Investigator at Allen Brain Institute, Seattle, US Huib Manswelder,
Head of Department
of Integrative Neurophysiology Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive
Research, VU University, Amsterdam Jan G. Bjaalie,
Head of Neuroinformatics division, Institute
of Basic Medical Sciences, University
of Oslo, Norway Jean - François Mangin,
Research Director Neuroimaging at CEA, Gif - sur - Yvette, France Jordi Mones, Institut de la Macula y la Retina, Barcelona, Spain Jurgen Popp, Scientific Director
of the Leibniz Institute
of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany Katharina Zimmermann, Hochshule, Germany Katrin Amunts, Director
of the Institute Structural and functional
organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Leslie M. Loew, Professor at University
of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, US Marc - Oliver Gewaltig, Section Manager
of Neurorobotics, Simulation Neuroscience Division - Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Geneve, Switzerland Markus Axer,
Head of Fiber architecture group, Institute
of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM - 1) at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Mickey Scheinowitz,
Head of Regenerative Therapy Department
of Biomedical Engineering and Neufeld Cardiac
Research Institute, Tel - Aviv University, Israel Pablo Loza, Institute
of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain Patrick Hof, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US Paul Tiesinga, Professor at Faculty
of Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands Silvestro Micera, Director
of the Translational Neural Engineering (TNE) Laboratory, and Associate Professor at the EPFL School
of Engineering and the Centre for Neuroprosthetics Timo Dicksheid, Group Leader
of Big Data Analytics, Institute Structural and functional
organisation of the brain, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Trygve Leergaard, Professor
of Neural Systems, Institute
of Basic Medical Sciences, University
of Oslo, Norway Viktor Jirsa, Director
of the Institute de Neurosciences des Systèmes and Director
of Research at the CNRS, Marseille, France
Committee
of Heads of Organisations for
Research and Technology (COHORT) ASSAf acts as secretariat to the Committee
of Heads of Organisations for
Research and Technology (COHORT).
The European
Research Council (ERC), a pan-European public organisation that funds research projects, has awarded Salvador Aznar Benitah, ICREA researcher and hea
Research Council (ERC), a pan-European public
organisation that funds
research projects, has awarded Salvador Aznar Benitah, ICREA researcher and hea
research projects, has awarded Salvador Aznar Benitah, ICREA researcher and
head of the
Prof. dr Peer Bork (Structural and Computational Biology, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) is Senior Group Leader and Joint
Head of the Structural and Computational Biology unit at EMBL, a European research organisation where he also serves as strategic head of bioinformat
Head of the Structural and Computational Biology unit at EMBL, a European
research organisation where he also serves as strategic
head of bioinformat
head of bioinformatics.
The study was undertaken with support from 24
organisations, including the Royal Academy
of Engineering, BCS, CPHC (The Council
of Professors and
Heads of Computing), Google, Microsoft
Research and several
of the UK's leading universities.
Hear Marianne T. Poulsen,
Head of the European Office
of Silicon Valley based SRI International, explain how innovation is conducted in one
of the world's largest
research and development
organisations.
He co-founded the London - based arts
organisation Green Cardamom (2004 - 12), and was
Head of Research & Programmes at Asia Art Archive (AAA), Hong Kong (2012 - 16).
Although the
head offices
of most agricultural
research and extension
organisations are located in the cities, urban agriculture is often not a priority on the
research agenda and urban producers access to technical advice and training services is often rather limited and its content and focus often are not well adapted to the conditions in the urban environment.