Call 2013 - Estonian Research Council

Awarded personal research grants of the call of 2013
	Principal Investigator		Title	Institution
1	Kersti	Pärna	Epidemiological and genetic evidence of smoking behaviour and nicotine dependence among health professionals	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
2	Aaro	Hazak	Towards the Knowledge Economy: Incentives, Regulation and Capital Allocation	Tallinn University of Technology	start-up research grant
3	Dmitry	Yarmolinsky	Reactive oxygen species-induced signaling in the regulation of stomatal movements	University of Tartu	start-up research grant
4	Katrin	Õunap	The detection of new rare genetic diseases in children	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
5	Satish Narayana	Srirama	Mobile and Cloud Computing Laboratory: From Exploiting Cloud in Science to Enabling Internet of Things	University of Tartu	start-up research grant
6	Peeter	Saari	Search for new types of nondiffractive accelerating light pulses and their applications	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
7	Kersti	Klaamas	Aberrant glycosylation of autoantibodies to tumor–associated glycans in cancer diagnostics and prognostics	National Institute for Health Development	exploratory research grant
8	Toivo	Maimets	Mechanisms of AHR-dependent regulation of cell pluripotency	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
9	Peep	Männik	Environmental and faunal changes in the pre-Hirnantian Late Ordovician: a prelude to the end-Ordovician mass extinction? A Baltoscandian perspective	Tallinn University of Technology	exploratory research grant
10	Mihkel	Koel	Aerogels as materials for chemical analysis	Tallinn University of Technology	exploratory research grant
11	Agu	Laisk	Lower than expected quantum yield of photosynthesis in leaves – mechanistic reasons and prospects of improvement	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
12	Vitaly	Skachek	New Coding Techniques in Data Communications and Storage	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
13	Irina	Paert	Altar and classroom: the Orthodox schools in the Baltic provinces 1870-1914	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
14	Mikhail	Brik	Modeling, Uncovering and Looking Towards Investigating Chalcopyrite Properties Unknown – MULTICPU	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
15	Erwan	Rauwel	Ultrastable metal nanoparticles synthesis aimed at applications in nanomedicine	Tallinn University of Technology	exploratory research grant
16	Arkadi	Berezovski	Wave energy redistribution in solids with microstructure	Tallinn University of Technology	exploratory research grant
17	Raul	Vicente Zafra	Exploring synaptic memories through biophysical modeling and advanced machine learning	University of Tartu	start-up research grant
18	Dan	Hüvonen	Disorder in Quantum Magnets: Dynamics and Criticality	National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics	start-up research grant
19	Alar	Rosentau	Holocene relative sea level changes and Stone Age settlement in the periphery of the Fennoscandian glacial isostatic land-uplift region, from the eastern Baltic to the White Sea	University of Tartu	start-up research grant
20	Helle	Metslang	Integrated model of morphosyntactic variation in written Estonian: a pilot study	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
21	Per Daniel	Sävborg	Encountering the Otherworld in Medieval Nordic Literature: New Perspectives	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
22	Maris	Tõnso	Modelling of control systems: theory, algorithms, software	Tallinn University of Technology	exploratory research grant
23	Dagmar	Kutsar	Care policies and family care from intergenerational perspective in Estonia: The ’crowding’ hypotheses revisited	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
24	Peeter	Espak	The Ancient Near Eastern Creation Mythology and the Structural Developments of the Pantheon: Diachronical Analysis from the Earliest Sources to the First Dynasty of Babylon	University of Tartu	start-up research grant
25	Vinay	Choubey	Neuroprotective mechanisms of Beclin1-Parkin interaction	University of Tartu	start-up research grant
26	Kristjan	Vassil	The impact of internet voting on turnout, political representation and voter confidence. A comparative study of internet voting in Estonia, Switzerland and Norway since 2005	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
27	Ivo	Palu	Impact of new types of electricity generating patterns to high voltage equipment and cable insulations	Tallinn University of Technology	start-up research grant
28	Yuh-Shuh	Wang	Novel aspects of stomatal regulation by isoprenoids	University of Tartu	exploratory research grant
29	Kristiina	Ross	The Cultural Shift in Estonian in the 17th and 18th century	Institute of the Estonian Language	exploratory research grant
30	Rain	Jõgi	RHINESSA Generation Study: Trans-generational and life-course perspective on environmental and life-style factors in relation to asthma, allergy and COPD	Tartu University Hospital	exploratory research grant