
Meet our researchers below!

Name: Filippo Bertozzo
Nationality: Italy
Project title: Disease in the Early Cretaceous - A Comparitive Study of Iguanodon and Hadrosaur Paleopathology
School: Shool of Natural and Built Environment
Supervisor: Dr Eileen Murphy
Partner Organisation: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Name: Álvaro Cárcamo Martínez
Nationality: Chile
Project title: Microneedle mediated drug delivery for enhanced treatment of basal cell carcinoma
School: Pharmacy
Supervisor: Professor Ryan Donnelly

Name: Chandril Chandan Ghosh
Nationality: Indian
Project title: Mental Health Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood
School: Psychology
Supervisor: Duncan McVicar

Name: Adrian Juncos Bombin
Nationality: Spain
Project title: Development of a Nanomedicine in an Electrospun Patch for Wound Healing’ (NEW)
School: Pharmacy
Supervisor: Professor Helen McCarthy
Partner Organisation: Biovotec

Name: Lucia Klencakova
Nationality: Czech Republic
Project title: The role of educational providers in addressing intimate partner violence among youth in Northern Ireland
School: School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Supervisory Team : Dr Cathal McManus, Dr. Dirk Schubotz and Dr. Susan Lagdon (Ulster University)
Partner Organisation: Women's Aid

Name: Swati Kumar
Nationality: India
Project title: Metabolomics for early detection of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Recurrence.
School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Supervisor: Dr Richard Turkington
Partner: Almac Diagnostics

Name: Deepak Kumar Singh
Nationality: India
Project title: Van der Waal’s Heterostructures Based on Two-Dimensional Materials: Towards Electronics and Optoelectronics Applications.
School: Maths and Physics
Supervisor: Dr Elton Santos

Name: Apolline Malevez
Nationality: Belgium
Project title: Art Nouveau & the Aesthetic of the Interior in Belgian Art & Literature (1890 - 1920)
School: School of Arts, English and Languages
Supervisor: Dr Claire Moran
Partner Organisation: Horta Museum

Name: Georges Moraitis
Nationality: Greece
Project title: The Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and the Negotiation of International Law, 1842-1911
School: History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Supervisor: Dr Emma Reisz
Partner Organisation: Chinese Customs Museum

Name: Piangfan Naksukpaiboon
Nationality: Thailand
Project title: Network Pharmacology for Novel Cancer Combination Therapies and Diagnostics.
School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Supervisor: Dr Ian Overton
Partner Organisation: GSK

Name: Boris Odložilík
Nationality: Czech Republic
Project title: Biological effects of laser-accelerated ion bursts.
School: Maths and Physcis
Supervisor: Professor Marco Borghesi
Partner Organisation: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Name: Shane O'Donnell
Nationality: Ireland
Project title: Creative media as a vehicle for reduction of suicide risk in men
School: Nursing and Midwifery
Supervisor: Dr Karen Galway
Partner Organisaton: University of British Columbia

Name: Goncalo Rosas da Silva
Nationality: Portugal
Project title: Assessing adherence to the Mediterranean diet; new tools, biomarkers & associations with healthy ageing
School: Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Dr Brian Green
Partner Organisation: Inserm, University of Bordeaux

Name: Massimiliano Russello
Nationality: Italy
Project title: Synthesis and modelling of multifunctional hierarchical thin-ply/CNTs/GNP composites.
School: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Supervisor: Dr Giuseppe Catalanotti

Name: Hadil Suleiman
Nationality: Jordan
Project title: Development of advances protease inhibitor nanoformulations for human disease
School: Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Supervisor: Professor Rich Williams

Name: Theofilos Valkanidis
Nationality: Greece
Project title: Deciphering free kicks in football
School: Psychology
Supervisor: Dr Joost C Dessing

Name: Homer Wagenaar
Nationality: Netherlands
Project title: Patentless invention: the economic effects of the abolition and re-introduction of patents in the Netherlands
School: School of Management
Supervisor: Dr Chris Colvin
Partner Organisation: International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam

Name: Xi Wang
Nationality: China
Project title: Museum without Walls: Access for All
School: Arts, English and Languages
Supervisor: Professor David Johnston
Partner Organisations: RNIB and Titanic Belfast

Name: Laura Wurm
Nationality: Austria
Project title: Speculation and innovation in the 19th and 20th century commodity markets
School: Management
Supervisor: Professor John Turner

Name: Giorgio Zicari
Nationality: Italy
Project title: Quantum machine learning in simulated linear-optics scenarios
School: Maths and Physics
Supervisor: Professor Mauro Paternostro
Contact Us
For any questions relating to the SPaRK Programme, please contact, SPaRK Project Coordinator Adele Ward on sparkproject@qub.ac.uk or 00 (44) 28 9097 3078.