Developing new guidelines and techniques for building waste-disposal sites that provide long-term environmental protection: this research will lead to the development of better methods for protecting the environment from contamination by waste.

Using neuroimaging techniques to investigate what happens in the human brain when we retrieve memories: this research may improve our understanding of the impacts of brain injury, our ability to design educational approaches, and the treatment of intrusive memory disorders.

The study of Natural Killer (NK) cells in the development of diseases such as pulmonary arterial hypertension: this research could lead to the creation of new immune-based treatments that could reverse changes made in a person’s lungs.

Developing new methods for the statistical analysis of data that can be applied toward practical problems in economics and finance: this research could have far-reaching impacts on governments and central banks by improving the methods they use to evaluate policy actions.