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Generous 3 year grant going to a 3rd class Ukrainian resercher who is not good enough to be hired by any of the world's big defence contractors. I don't understand why is MINDEF even spending money on this type of basic research? What applications can they have in S'pore? Do they really think this Ukrainian guy will have such a breakthru on a research area that every major country in the world is working on? There are hundreds, maybe thousands of companies and agencies in the world all trying to develop lighter, tougher, super hard material. Is this guy better than all of them? Why don't MINDEF wait for the technology to develop and mature before buying it from the best company? How does paying this Ukrainian a generous 3 year fellowship, so generous that no $ figures are given, contribue to the number 1 priority of MINDEF i.e. the defence of singapore? Same for this Teo guy too. All MINDEFhas developed recently is a stinking little UAV.
SINGAPORE: Two researchers in the fields of defence science and technology received prestigious Fellowships from Singapore's Defence Ministry and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Tuesday.
The inaugural Temasek Research Fellowship was awarded to Ukrainian researcher, Dr Oleg Vasylkiv, who is regarded as a rising star in the cutting-edge field of materials science.
His research is paving the way for the development of new protective material that is lightweight, super-hard and highly shock-resistant.
"If we succeed in our project - it can drastically increase the fracture toughness. If so, this very hard material can be used by some extreme measures for example in ocean, in space or some protective measure," said Dr Oleg.
The Fellowship comes with a generous 3-year research grant, with an option to extend it up to an additional three years as well as possible tenure academic appointment at the end of the Fellowship.
Another scientist, Dr Edwin Teo, a Singaporean, will be the first to receive the Nanyang-DSO Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
He is pursuing his passion for nanotechnology that could lead to new micro-electronics and micro-mechanical devices. The winner of the MINDEF fellowship is working on electronic devices made out of carbon.
Dr Teo, who had previously won two national awards for innovation in research for his work on carbon materials, believes that carbon devices can help increase a soldier's effectiveness.
"In the 3G armies such as Singapore, you are talking about armed forces that are linked, so are probably carrying electronic devices on them. And no soldier wants to carry extra weight. So we are thinking of things that can drastically reduce weight but at the same time does not reduce performance.
"Carbon can be extremely tough yet can be extremely light at the same time. Virtually weightless. We can even paste components directly onto uniforms, on the skin and use this as communication devices."
Dr Teo also sees carbon as being able to resolve the issue of overheating in army gadgets, with its ability to extract heat out at a fast rate.
"Especially in defence industries where you have all sorts of hostile environments, you operate in very tedious, high pressure, corrosive environments even. You need a material that can withstand this kind of torture," Dr Teo said.
Exploring carbon's thermal management and durability are part of Dr. Teo's research into finding ways to integrate the material into common-day devices to improve their life span. On the commercial side, Dr Teo sees the benefits of carbon being used in laptops and cellphones.
He hopes to develop a prototype by the end of his two-year fellowship at NTU.
Both researchers have chosen to do their research at NTU.
This is the first time that the MINDEF-funded fellowships are being given out. The schemes aim to recruit and offer outstanding young researchers an opportunity to conduct and lead research that is relevant to defence.
It is hoped that their innovative ideas would, in turn, translate into state-of-the-art capabilities of the future.
SINGAPORE: Two researchers in the fields of defence science and technology received prestigious Fellowships from Singapore's Defence Ministry and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) on Tuesday.
The inaugural Temasek Research Fellowship was awarded to Ukrainian researcher, Dr Oleg Vasylkiv, who is regarded as a rising star in the cutting-edge field of materials science.
His research is paving the way for the development of new protective material that is lightweight, super-hard and highly shock-resistant.
"If we succeed in our project - it can drastically increase the fracture toughness. If so, this very hard material can be used by some extreme measures for example in ocean, in space or some protective measure," said Dr Oleg.
The Fellowship comes with a generous 3-year research grant, with an option to extend it up to an additional three years as well as possible tenure academic appointment at the end of the Fellowship.
Another scientist, Dr Edwin Teo, a Singaporean, will be the first to receive the Nanyang-DSO Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
He is pursuing his passion for nanotechnology that could lead to new micro-electronics and micro-mechanical devices. The winner of the MINDEF fellowship is working on electronic devices made out of carbon.
Dr Teo, who had previously won two national awards for innovation in research for his work on carbon materials, believes that carbon devices can help increase a soldier's effectiveness.
"In the 3G armies such as Singapore, you are talking about armed forces that are linked, so are probably carrying electronic devices on them. And no soldier wants to carry extra weight. So we are thinking of things that can drastically reduce weight but at the same time does not reduce performance.
"Carbon can be extremely tough yet can be extremely light at the same time. Virtually weightless. We can even paste components directly onto uniforms, on the skin and use this as communication devices."
Dr Teo also sees carbon as being able to resolve the issue of overheating in army gadgets, with its ability to extract heat out at a fast rate.
"Especially in defence industries where you have all sorts of hostile environments, you operate in very tedious, high pressure, corrosive environments even. You need a material that can withstand this kind of torture," Dr Teo said.
Exploring carbon's thermal management and durability are part of Dr. Teo's research into finding ways to integrate the material into common-day devices to improve their life span. On the commercial side, Dr Teo sees the benefits of carbon being used in laptops and cellphones.
He hopes to develop a prototype by the end of his two-year fellowship at NTU.
Both researchers have chosen to do their research at NTU.
This is the first time that the MINDEF-funded fellowships are being given out. The schemes aim to recruit and offer outstanding young researchers an opportunity to conduct and lead research that is relevant to defence.
It is hoped that their innovative ideas would, in turn, translate into state-of-the-art capabilities of the future.
