STI FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
BRICS STI FP - Pilot Call 2016: Results

07 August 2017

A total of 320 proposals have been submitted in response to the BRICS STI Framework Programme Pilot Call 2016. 26 projects in 10 thematic areas have been selected for support as an outcome of the call.

 


 

BRICS STI FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMES
PILOT CALL 2016

List of successful projects

 

Registration number and Acronym

Full Title

Country

PI

Organization

National funding organization

1

84 - LDSPIWDS

Leakage Detection and Soil-Pipe Interactions in Water Distribution Systems

BRAZIL

Iran Eduardo Lima Neto

Federal University of Ceará

CNPq

CHINA

Tuqiao Zhang

1st Zhejiang University, 2nd China Jiliang University

NSFC

SOUTH AFRICA

Jakobus van Zyl

University of Cape Town

NRF

2

112 -  NEUROTHERAPY

Development of a new screening platform for the discovery of novel therapeutics to cure neurodegenerative diseases

RUSSIA

Kaznacheyeva Elena

Institute of Cytology RAS

RFBR

INDIA

Nihar Ranjan Jana

National Brain Research Centre

DST

CHINA

Guanghui Wang

College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University

NSFC

3

115 - Loop

Nano-Engineered Concrete for Sustainable Infrastructure

RUSSIA

Valeria Strokova

Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shoukhov

MON

INDIA

L P Singh

CSIR-Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

DST

CHINA

Shifeng Huang

University of Jinan

NSFC

4

164 - EpiMacroTB

Epigenetics of macrophages during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

RUSSIA

Yulia Medvedeva

Vavilov Instutute of General Genetics; Research Center of Biotechnology RAS, Institute of Bioingeneering

RFBR

INDIA

Sanjeev Khosla

Laboratory of Mammalian Genetics, CDFD, Hyderabad

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

Reto Guler

Division of Immunology, IDM, University of Cape Town

NRF

5

183 -  Helimagnets

Ground state magnetic structure, spin dynamics, and hyperfine interactions in frustrated 3d-metal based helimagnets: nuclear resonance spectroscopy study

RUSSIA

A.A. Gippius

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow
State University; Faculty of
Physics

RFBR

INDIA

A.V. Mahajan

Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, Department of
Physics

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

A.M. Strydom

University of Johannesburg,
Department of Physics

NRF

6

225 - BGNCDT

Boron and gadolinium nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and therapy

RUSSIA

V.Bregadze

Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS)

RFBR

INDIA

S. Mandal

Department of Chemical Sciences Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Kolkata

DST

CHINA

Zheyu Shen

Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering (NIMTE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

NSFC

7

233 - ADHNMS

All-dielectric and hybrid nanoantennas for multifunctional sensors

RUSSIA

Pavel Belov

Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), Department of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials

MON

INDIA

Ravindra K Sinha

CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation

DST

CHINA

Qiang Li

College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University

MOST

8

241 - OPTIMODE

Optical communication with spatial modes of light

RUSSIA

Alexis
Kudryashov

Institute of Geosphere Dynamics
Russian Academy of Science

 

INDIA

Shanti
Bhattacharya

Indian Institute of Technology
(Madras)

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

Andrew
Forbes

University of the Witwatersrand

NRF

9

258 - Nanomag-SmCoFe

Nanocrystalline hard magnetic Sm-Co-Fe-T alloys (T = Cu, Ti, Zn, and Zr) with the normal and abnormal temperature dependence of coercivity

RUSSIA

Popov A.G.

M.N. Miheev Institute of Metal Physics of Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Ferromagnetic Alloys

RFBR

INDIA

Raghavan Gopalan

International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) (Dept.of Science and Technology, Govt. of India)

DST

CHINA

Tianli Zhang

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University

NSFC

10

266 - HMAero

Hybrid Manufacturing of Aerospace Parts: Software Modeling, Simulation, Verification and Development

RUSSIA

Vladimir Belenky

Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Mechanical Engineering Faculty

MON

INDIA

K.P. Karunakaran

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering

DST

CHINA

Shengyong Pang

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Computational Welding Process Design Laboratory, State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die & Mould Technology

MOST

11

279 - HPCSLED

Development of novel cooling systems for high power LEDs for enhanced reliability and lifetime

RUSSIA

Oleg Kabov

Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS

MON

INDIA

Sameer Khandekar

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

DST

CHINA

Liang Zhao

Xi'an Jiaotong University

MOST

12

315 -  IKMMT

Identification of Key genetic/epigenetic Marker(s) in cervical carcinogenesis and development of corresponding Molecular Therapeutics for precision medicine of cervical cancer

RUSSIA

Konstantin V. Severinov

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

RFBR

INDIA

Bhudev C.Das

Amity University, Noida Amity Institute of Molecular Medicine & Stem Cell Research

DST

CHINA

Zheng Hu

The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

NSFC

SOUTH AFRICA

Inga I. Hitzeroth

University of Cape Town, Biopharming Research Unit, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

NRF

13

352 - RMGeT

Development of methods for remote monitoring of the dynamics of vegetation, soil and land use taking into account natural and anthropogenic factors on the basis of geospatial technologies for rational use of natural resources

BRAZIL

Paulo Márcio Leal de Menezes

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

CNPq

RUSSIA

Bondur V.G.

State scientific institution “Institute for Scientific Research of Aerospace Monitoring “AEROCOSMOS” (ISR “AEROCOSMOS”)

MON

CHINA

Fang Chen

The Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (RADI)

MOST

14

369 - DomEng

Physical basis of domain engineering in piezoelectric single crystals of PMN-PT family and lead-free piezoceramics

RUSSIA

Vladimir Shur

Ural Federal University, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

RFBR

INDIA

S S Islam

Centre For Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CNN), Jamia Millia Islamia

DST

CHINA

Xiaoyong Wei

Xian Jiaotong University, Electronic Materials Research Laboratory

NSFC

15

373 - CloudHPC

Harnessing Cloud Computing to Power Up HPC Applications

BRAZIL

Luciano Paschoal Gaspary

Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

CNPq

RUSSIA

Vladimir Korkhov

Department of Computer Modeling and Multiprocessor Systems, St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU)

 

CHINA

Wang Xingce

Computer Science Department, College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University (BNU)

MOST

16

383 - UV-BRIDGE

New principles and fabrication technologies of extreme 2D and 0D AlGaInN nanoheterostructures for high efficiency mid- and deep-ultraviolet spontaneous and laser emitters

RUSSIA

Sergey Ivanov

Ioffe Institute, Center of Nanoheterostructure Physics

RFBR

INDIA

Anirban Bhattacharyya

University of Calcutta, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics

DST

CHINA

Zhixin Qin

Peking University, School of Physics

MOST

17

388 - ProFChEAP

Probing fundamental characteristics of extreme astrophysical phenomena

RUSSIA

Lutovinov Alexander A.

Space Research Institute (IKI), High Energy Astrophysics Dept.

RFBR

INDIA

Shashi Bhushan Pandey 

ARIES Nainital/Astronomy & Astrophysics

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

David Buckley

University of Cape Town, Astronomy Department

NRF

18

405 - BICBRAIN

Brazil-India-China collaborative study on brain connectivity and neuromodulation techniques

BRAZIL

Marco A. Romano-Silva

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Medicina Molecular, Dept Mental Health

CNPq

INDIA

Bangalore N Gangadhar

National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences

DST

CHINA

Haijing Niu

State Key Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning,& IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research

NSFC

19

437 - nanoBRICSrough

Fundamentals for development of individual nano-objects and nano-devices bottom-up mechanical integration for quantum and non-local phenomena study, nano-electronics and nano-bio-medical diagnostics

BRAZIL

Monica Cotta

Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

CNPq

RUSSIA

Victor Koledov

Kotel'nikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Magnetic Phenomena in microelectronics

RFBR

INDIA

Digbijoy N. Nath

Indian Institute of Science Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) Bangalore

DST

CHINA

Zhongming Zeng

Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (SINANO)

NSFC

SOUTH AFRICA

Somnath Bhatachryya

School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

NRF

20

444 - Coast-CARE

Coastal Communities Adaptive and Resilient at the Edge

BRAZIL

Carlos Eduardo de Rezende

Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Environmental Sciences Laboratory

 

INDIA

Sameer M. Deshkar

Department of Architecture and Planning, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur

DST

CHINA

Carlo Jaeger

Beijing Normal University, ESPRE

MOST

SOUTH AFRICA

Merle Sowman

University of Cape Town

NRF

21

451 - Superflares

Superflares on stars and the Sun

RUSSIA

Alexey Kuznetsov

Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics

RFBR

INDIA

Dipankar Banerjee

Indian Institute of Astrophysics

DST

CHINA

Bo Li

Shandong University, Institute of Space Sciences

NSFC

22

462 - Col-GaSS

Collaboration on Glaciers and Snow/Firn Characteristics Variability Studies in Polar and Subpolar Regions

BRAZIL

Jorge Arigony-Neto

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG Instituto de Oceanografia - IO Laboratório de Monitoramento da Criosfera - LaCrio

CNPq

RUSSIA

Andrei Glazovsky  

Dept. of Glaciology, Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences

RFBR

INDIA

Gulab Singh

Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

DST

23

464 - POINTCLOUD

Research and development of algorithms and software for the processing, storage and visualization of laser scanning and photography data

RUSSIA

Vladimir Badenko

Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, Water management and hydraulic engineering

MON

INDIA

R.D. Garg

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Geomatics Engineering, Civil Engineering Department

DST

CHINA

Lei Zhang

East China Normal University, School of Information Science Technology, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mutimensianal Information Processing, Engineering Center of SHMEC for Space Information and GNSS

MOST

24

482-

The role of region-specific SNPs in virulence genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance

RUSSIA

Valery N. Danilenko

Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, RAS

MON

CHINA

Lingyun Shao

Department of Infectious Diseases, Huashan Hospital, affiliated to Fudan University

NSFC

SOUTH AFRICA

Martie van der Walt

TB Platform unit, South African Medical Research Council

NRF

25

485 - Platinum nano

Platinum as an essential element in an integrated process for efficient energy conversion

BRAZIL

Antônio José Roque da Silva

Brazilian Synchrotorn Light Laboratory

CNPq

INDIA

Ankur Bordoloi

CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

Eric van Steen

University of Cape Town, Department of Chemical Engineering

NRF

26

500 - MuMeSTU

Multi-Wavelength and Multi-Messenger Studies of the Transient Universe

RUSSIA

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Lipunov

Physics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute

RFBR

INDIA

Devendra Kumar Sahu

Indian Institute of Astrophysics

DST

CHINA

Hongbo Hu

Astroparticle Physics Division, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

NSFC

 

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