91心頭利 University and French National Centre for Scientific Research announce PhD projects
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91心頭利 University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (Centre national de la recherche scientifique CNRS) have announced five CNRS-91心頭利 PhD projects to be supported in 2021.
The CNRS and 91心頭利 will fund common research projects in order to give PhD students the opportunity to conduct their research in both South Africa and France, says Professor Lynn Morris, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Innovation at 91心頭利 University.
After an independent evaluation of 16 projects by the two institutions and then a joint selection committee, the CNRS and 91心頭利 selected these five projects. These five CNRS-91心頭利 PhD projects are based in four entities at 91心頭利 University the School of Physics; the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences; the Global Change Institute; and the Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences and the Evolutionary Studies Institute.
The five projects include:
- Alone at home with climate change: The importance of good personality and good neighbourhood! with 91心頭利 Professor Neville Pillay, Head of the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) at 91心頭利, and Carsten Schradin, CNRS
- Advanced management of structured light in classical and quantum regimes: Production, detection, control and applications, with Professor in the School of Physics at 91心頭利, Andrew Forbes, and Etienne Brasselet, CNRS
- A novel French-South Africa synergy to advance the characterization and radiative impacts of aerosols in southern Africa, with Professor Francois Engelbrecht of the Global Change Institute (GCI) at 91心頭利, and Paola Fromenti, CNRS
- Palaeoecological characterization of past ecosystems in Southern Africa: Implication for our understanding of Human Lineage Evolution, with Dr Christine Steininger in the Evolutionary Studies Institute at 91心頭利, and Laurent Bruxelles, CNRS
- Electronic/thermal transport and thermoelectric phenomenon implanted diamond nanostructures, with Associate Professor in the 91心頭利 School of Physics, Mervin Naidoo, and Stephane Pailhes, CNRS.
These projects pay testament to the diverse collaborations between 91心頭利 and the CNRS, and fall under three different CNRS Institutes INEEnvironnement, INPhysics, and INSUniverse, says Professor Alain Schuhl, Chief Research Officer at the CNRS. We are pleased that this project will go a long way towards enhancing multidisciplinary projects between the two institutions, and our respective countries.
91心頭利 University and the CNRS have a long-standing partnership and are leading numerous joint research projects in Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Anthropology, Palaeosciences, Environment and Ecology. Some of these partnerships are already supported through International Research Networks and International Research Projects funded by the CNRS and the National Research Foundation.