18 May 2006

Dundee students win travel scholarships

Two post-graduate students at the University of Dundee have won travelling scholarships worth a combined total of more than £2000 from the Scottish International Education Trust.

Alexandros Gasparatos, a civil engineering research student, has been awarded £1400 to travel to Rome and Siena while Heiko Enderling, a PhD student in Mathematical Biology, has been awarded £950 to travel to North Carolina in the USA.

Alexandros (27), who is originally from Greece, is carrying out research at the Construction Management Research Unit focussing on ways of assessing the economic, social and environmental issues that influence cities and their people.

During his trip to Italy he hopes to visit two research groups and attend a conference which is likely to attract world class researchers.

"This is a really good opportunity," said Alexandros. "It will help my future research and will provide important information for a paper I am writing. It is also a good networking opportunity."

Heiko Enderling (28) has an undergraduate degree in Applied Computing and is currently working on an interdisciplinary project focussing on the mathematical modelling of surgery and radiotherapy strategies of breast tumours.

Originally from Germany Heiko, will be travelling to Raleigh in North Carolina where he has organised a mini-symposium to promote mathematical models in cancer treatment at the annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology.

"Leading researchers from various fields of mathematical modelling will be at the meeting to present their latest contributions," he said. "It will be the perfect framework to discuss my work on an international stage."

NOTES TO EDITORS

The Scottish International Education Trust was set up in 1971 on the initiative of Sir Sean Connery. The aim of the Travel Grant Scheme is to assist young scientists, engineers and technologists in Scottish Universities to attend or present papers at conferences, workshops and seminars being held at universities or similar institutions of higher education abroad.

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University of Dundee
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