Microsoft Research Awards €1.8M To Europe’s Future Science Pioneers

Published 9th February 2006

Students receive up to €90,000 for research in computing and the intersection of computing and the sciences...

CAMBRIDGE, England — 9 Feb 2006 — Microsoft Research today announced it has awarded 22 student scholarships through its European PhD scholarship programme. Each scholarship provides up to €90,000 in funding over three years, a tablet PC and, for some recipients, the possibility of an internship at Microsoft Research. This programme is part of Microsoft Research’s continued commitment to developing Europe’s scientists of the future, and plays a key role in the Microsoft® European Science Initiative, launched in February 2005 by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, which is aimed at fostering science-based innovation in Europe.

More than 130 students competed for the scholarships and their applications were reviewed by a panel of leading scientists. Based on these reviews, 22 applications were selected, each showing the potential to make an outstanding contribution to science and research. Winning projects vary from those looking to improve existing computing tools to those focusing more specifically at the intersection of computing and the natural sciences, including the following:

• Using computing techniques to decipher human immune response to bacteria, potentially leading to better therapeutic drugs

• Studying protein anomalies to help better understand diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

• Researching ways to make search and information retrieval more sophisticated

• Investigating new approaches to software verification and testing

“These students have every potential to become some of Europe’s leading scientists in the future,” said Stephen Emmott, director, Microsoft Research Cambridge. “Our scholarship programme is helping to lay the groundwork for creating the new kinds of scientists needed for the new kinds of science emerging at the intersection of computer science and the natural sciences.”






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