Objective Catherine Saccavini is a young female scientist of enormous promise and potential. She has an excellent record of achievement in coordination chemistry, and her work is certainly of the highest international quality with publications in the very top journals. She now wishes to build upon and apply her impressive array of scientific skills to an ambitious and innovative project to develop new eco-materials as catalysts for the binding and activation of hydrogen using designed metal thiolate complexes that will mimic hydrogenase enzymes that activate hydrogen in vivo. The Fellowship will give invaluable research training and knowledge transfer, and will afford further collaborations with industry and other research groups in the UK and Germany. The scientific and technological imperative for this research is derived from the urgent societal, environmental and economic need to develop new methodologies and technologies to control the use of hydrogen as a clean and efficient fuel, and to understand the molecular and redox chemistry taking place at hydrogenase biosites, which are highly efficient biocatalysts for hydrogen activation. The work programme meets the priorities under the FP6 Call on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials and on Sustainable Development. State-of-the-art facilities at Nottingham will underpin the Fellowship both scientifically and intellectually in a stimulating and multi-disciplinary environment (Marie Curie Host Fellowship Centre COSMIC MCFH-2001-00448). The Fellowship will also exploit the wider University of Nottingham Career Development programme and the Royal Society of Chemistry 1-year formal assessment programme, which provide a range of invaluable managerial and leadership skills for young scientists. The potential impact of the project is very high, and she will use her new skills and expertise as an independent academic and researcher to spread excellence in training and research across the ERA. Fields of science natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysisbiocatalysisengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsnatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsenzymes Programme(s) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Topic(s) MOBILITY-2.1 - Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (EIF) Call for proposal FP6-2004-MOBILITY-5 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme EIF - Marie Curie actions-Intra-European Fellowships Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM EU contribution No data Address University Park NOTTINGHAM United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
