Joint Seed Funding awards

2025

'Subcellular topology and mechanotransduction of opioid receptors’

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Paolo Annibale, School of Physics and Astronomy
  • Padua PI: Dr Davide Malfacini, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences

'Investigating a Common Pathological Mechanism in Different Neurodegenerative Diseases'

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Matthew Broadhead, School of Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Padua PI: Professor Laura Civiero, Department of Biology

'Intergenerational aspects of older age health in comparative perspective’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Katherine Keenan, School of Gerography and Sustainable Development
  • Padua PI: Professor Marco Tosi, Department of Statistical Sciences

'New Frontiers in Sustainable Light-Driven Catalysis'

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Eli Zysman-Colman, School of Chemistry
  • Padua PI: Professor Luca Dell'Amico, Department of Chemical Sciences

2024

'Surface Synthesized Carbene Networks for Electrocatalysis’

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Christopher Baddeley, School of Chemistry
  • Padua PI: Professor Stefano Agnoli, Department of Chemical Sciences

'Teaching race and racism – Padua-St Andrews pedagogical partnership’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Ale Boussalem, School of Geography and Sustainable Development 
  • Padua PI: Dr Annalisa Frisina, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology

'Communication and Power. A Seminar Series for PhD Students in History'

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Justine Firnhaber-Baker, School of History
  • Padua PI: Professor Giulia Albanese, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World

'International Workshop on Quantum Simulations'

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Natalia Korolkova, School of Physics and Astronomy
  • Padua PI: Professor Simone Montangero, Department of Physics and Astronomy

2023

'Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage – CH2’

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Laura Moretti, School of Art History
  • Padua PI: Professor Monica Salvadori, Department of Cultural Heritage

'Beyond ChatGPT: Best-practice sharing of innovative assessment between the United Kingdom and Italian higher education systems’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Luca Savorelli, Business School 
  • Padua PI: Professor Andrea Menini, Department of Economics and Management

'The ethics of thermonuclear fusion – a better energy future?'

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Emilka Skrzypek, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies 
  • Padua PI: Professor Piero Martin, Department of Physics and Astronomy

'Next Generation Path Panning Systems for Autonomous Vehicles'

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Blesson Varghese, School of Computer Science 
  • Padua PI: Dr Federico Corò, Department of Mathematics

2022

‘Unveiling the Recycling Potential of Pharmaceutical Glass by Alkali Activation [UnPhAct]’

  • St Andrews PI: Professor Sharon Ashbrook, School of Chemistry 
  • Padua PI: Dr Enrico Bernardo, Department of Industrial Engineering

‘Legal Knowledge: Transmission, Translation, Migration (12th -18th Century)’ 

  • St Andrews PI: Professor John Hudson, School of History
  • Padua PI: Professor Stefania Gialdroni, Department of Private Law and Critique of Law

‘Light Induced Dipolar Spectroscopy at High Field with EPR’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Janet Lovett, School of Physics and Astronomy
  • Padua PI: Dr Marilena Di Valentin, Department of Chemical Sciences

‘Why do animals choose their mates?’

  • St Andrews PI: Dr Davis Shuker, School of Biology
  • Padua PI: Professor Gil Guastoni Rosenthal, Department of Biology