Trinity welcomes recipients of 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
Posted on: 01 October 2025
Ten Trinity research proposals secured funding in the 2024 call and, with some scheduled to begin in the coming months, Trinity now warmly welcomes all winners.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call is the European Union’s flagship programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training and the results of the 2024 Postdoctoral Fellowships funding call showcase Trinity’s continued success in Horizon Europe.
Trinity’s success rate in the 2024 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call was 23.8%, compared to the Irish success rate of 14.9%, and the EU success rate of 16.6%.
The total amount awarded to Trinity was a little over €2.5 million, which will support projects across a diverse cross-section of research areas.
The supervisors for the successful proposals are based in the Schools of Natural Sciences; Creative Arts; Engineering; Genetics and Microbiology; and Histories and Humanities; as well as the ADAPT Research Ireland Centre for AI-Driven Digital Content Technology, and the AMBER Research Ireland Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research.
The winning researchers and their projects are:
- Dr Silvia Giménez Santamarina, supervised by Dr Alessandro Lunghi (AMBER), CHIC – Controlling spin polarisation using light and chiral phonons.
- Dr Miriam Slodownik, supervised by Professor Jennifer McElwain (Natural Sciences), POLARIS – Polar forest and atmospheric CO2 reconstruction during Earth’s last hothouse interval using multi-proxy strategies.
- Dr James Orr, supervised by Dr Siobhán O’ Brien (Genetics and Microbiology), MicroSync – Manipulating microbial systems via temporal synchronisation of antibiotics and phages.
- Dr Melinda Szűts, supervised by Dr Nicholas Johnson (Creative Arts), CHORA – The Choreographic Approach: Collaborative Applications of Embodied Practice in Music and Performance Training and Education.
- Dr Syed Ahmed Shah, supervised by Dr Eduardo Ruiz-Hernandez (AMBER), PIONEER – Pre-designed In situ Oncotherapeutic Nanohydrogel with Enhanced Efficacy for glioblastoma post-Resection.
- Dr Giorgio Piazza, supervised by Dr Giovanni Di Liberto (ADAPT), PRODAPTIVE – Uncovering the foundational mechanism of speech adaptation at the intersection of production and perception.
- Dr Ammar Tariq, supervised by Dr Michael Gibbons (Engineering), M3LBM – Micro-scale multiphase modelling of the microporous and gas diffusion layer using Lattice Boltzmann Method for Fuel Cells.
- Dr Jinguo Ge, supervised by Dr Shuo Yin (Engineering), PLMsbySLM – A radically new approach to laser additively manufacture metals with periodic coarse-fine grain structures for breaking the strength-ductility trade-off.
- Dr Timothy Twining, supervised by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (History and Humanities), PROTKNOW – James Ussher and the Making of Protestant Knowledge in the Early Modern World.
- Dr Rupesh Kumar Tiwari, supervised by Professor Stefano Sanvito (AMBER), STARDAM – Spin Transport and Relaxation Dynamics in Single-Molecule Junctions.