Each month, we provide up to £2,000 in grant money to early career researchers in quantitative disciplines.
Our aim is to support and assist PhD students and postdocs conducting research, particularly with costs that may be difficult to get funding for elsewhere, for example, travel for those who are caring for children, or expenses for volunteer work related to research.
Read on to hear from our latest winners, their research and how our grants will aid their work.
May grant winners
Felix Schur (ETH Zurich)
“I am a statistician working on causality for biomedical applications. The G-Research grant will help support my research stay at UC Berkeley, where I will be developing a causal inference algorithm to identify and estimate causal effects from interventional data, addressing unobserved confounders common in genomics and personalised medicine.”
Charita Dellaporta (University College London)
“I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistical Science at University College London.
“My research broadly focuses on developing robust methodologies that cope with challenges stemming from different types of model misspecification. Some areas I am particularly interested in are robust generalisations of Bayesian inference and distributionally robust optimisation.
“The G-Research grant will generously support my participation at ICML 2025 in Vancouver, where I will present our work on “Decision Making under the Exponential Family: Distributionally Robust Optimisation with Bayesian Ambiguity Sets”.
Alan Sun (Carnegie Mellon University)
“My research centres on deep neural network robustness, interpretability and their dualities.
“G-Research’s grant will enable me to present my latest work on using interpretability techniques to infer a model’s generality at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) in Vienna, Austria.”
Congratulations to all of our grant winners.
