Glasgow gains four prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship awards

The University of Glasgow has been awarded four prestigious UKRI-funded Future Leaders Fellowship awards, for work on key research areas including quantum sensing, bunyaviruses, immigration detention and colorectal cancer. The awards, which have been made to Dr Stephen Carter and Dr Colin Steele from the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Dr Sam Bayliss from the College of Science and Engineering, and Dr Cetta Mainwaring from the College of Social Sciences. Together they received £5.8m funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Future Leaders Fellowships is a £98million fund designed to help to establish the careers of world-class research and innovation leaders across UK business and academia. The scheme supports early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential in universities, UK registered businesses, and other research and user environments including research councils' institutes and laboratories. The support will enable each fellow to tackle ambitious and challenging research and innovation and develop their own careers. Dr Sam Bayliss , of the James Watt School of Engineering, has received £1.8m to investigate how spin states in molecular systems can be harnessed for quantum sensing, and photonic materials and devices.