Research News

• Dr. Stephan Rudykh is joining the School as Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics. He is bringing a € 2M ERC Starter grant to fund his research for the coming five years (a lab, 4 postdocs, 7 PhDs). Stephan has already recruited one postdoctoral fellow and two postgraduates who will start as soon as the logistics are sorted;
• Dr. Harold Berjamin won an Individual Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship (€ 185k). It will fund his research for 2021-2023;
• Prof. Michel Destrade joins 7 other participants in an upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (€ 3.7m) 2021-2025. He will recruit a PhD student;
• Dr. Bharat Tripathi and Dr. Valentina Balbi are advertising one College PhD Scholarship each, see attached files;
• Billy Ray started his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Mark Howard.

Research outputs

S. Coughlan, A. Das, E. O’Herlihy, F. Shanahan, P.W. O’Toole I.B. Jeffery. (2021) The gut virome in Irritable Bowel Syndrome differs from that of controls. Gut microbes.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19490976.2021.1887719

H. Berjamin, M. Destrade, W.J. Parnell. On the thermodynamic consistency of Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic models for soft solids. Mechanics Research Communications, 111 (2021) 103648.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093641320301762

B. Wu, M. Destrade. Wrinkling of soft magneto-active plates. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 208-209 (2021) 13-30.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020768320304054?dgcid=rss_sd_all

Roshan D, Ferguson J, Pedlar CR, Simpkin A, Wyns W, Sullivan F, Newell, J. (2021) A comparison of methods to generate adaptive reference ranges in longitudinal monitoring. PloS ONE 16(2).
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247338#ack

F. Xu, X.-Q. Feng, M. Destrade. Preface to the Special Issue on Instability and bifurcation in materials and structures. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 129 (2021) 103663.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-non-linear-mechanics/special-issue/1089TRQ46GQ

Y. Su, R.W. Ogden, M. Destrade. Bending control and instability of functionally graded dielectric elastomers. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 43 (2021) 101162.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352431620303114

Contessotto P, Orbanić D, Da Costa M, Jin C, Owens P, Chantepie S, Chinello C, Newell J, Magni F, Papy-Garcia D, Karlsson NG, Kilcoyne M, Dockery P, Rodríguez-Cabello JC, Pandit A. Elastin-like recombinamers-based hydrogel modulates post-ischemic remodeling in a non-transmural myocardial infarction in sheep. Sci Transl Med. 2021 Feb 17;13(581):eaaz5380. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz5380. PMID: 33597263.
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/581/eaaz5380

Sheill G, Guinan E, O'Neill L , Newell J, et al. Prehabilitation during a pandemic: preoperative exercise to improve fitness in patients undergoing complex surgery for cancer of the lung or oesophagus, the PRE-HIIT trial: an updated study protocol [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]. HRB Open Res 2021, 4:4
https://doi.org/10.12688/hrbopenres.13198.1

Barrett, S., Simpkin, A. J., Walls, G. M., Leech, M., & Marignol, L. (2021). Geometric and Dosimetric Evaluation of a Commercially Available Auto-segmentation Tool for Gross Tumour Volume Delineation in Locally Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: a Feasibility Study. Clinical Oncology, 33(3), 155-162.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0936655520303095

Wade, K. H., Clifford, L., Simpkin, A. J., Beynon, R., Birch, L., Northstone, K., Timpson, N. J. (2021). Piloting the objective measurement of eating weight and speed at a population scale: a nested study within the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Wellcome Open Research, 5, 185.
http://wellcomeopenresearch.s3.amazonaws.com/manuscripts/18248/20961e6c-b486-4e23-bb0f-d955d1ec9227_16091_-_kaitlin_wade_v2.pdf

Mulder, R. H., Neumann, A., Cecil, C. A., Walton, E., Houtepen, L. C., Simpkin, A. J., Suderman, M. (2021). Epigenome-wide change and variation in DNA methylation in childhood: Trajectories from birth to late adolescence. Human Molecular Genetics. https://academic.oup.com/hmg/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hmg/ddaa280/6101449?login=true

FC Barcelona Innovation Hub Conference: Analytics in Sports Tomorrow – Research papers winners
Predicting and Individualising Training Load using historical GPS data in Elite Soccer. Dr. Kenny McMillan, Dr. Andrew Simpkin, Dr. Brian Moore, Prof. John Newell
https://sportstomorrow.fcbarcelona.com/speakers/