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MISTI Global Seed Fund 2010-2011 Grant Recipients


Prototypical Sustainable Residential Communities for Israel 2025

A collaboration between:

  • Eran Ben-Joseph, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning
  • Tali Hatuka, Head Laboratory for Contemporary Urban Design, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Eran Neuman Chair, School of Architecture Tel Aviv University, Faculty of the Arts, Israel


Design of a Satellite Research Platform for Pollution Monitoring in Mexican Cities: Quetzal 1st Stage

A collaboration between:

  • Paulo Lozano, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Saul Daniel Santillan-Gutierrez, Head of CAT, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico


Creative Capacity Building in Uganda

A collaboration between:

  • Amy Smith, Senior Lecturer, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • John Bosco Aludi, Executive Director, Caritas Internationalis, Uganda
  • Sharad Sapra, Country Director, UNICEF, Uganda


Graphene-Based Bioelectronics

A collaboration between:

  • Tomas Palacios, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Jose Antonio Garrido, Professor, Technical University of Munich, Germany


Dielectrophoretic Selection of Microorganisms for Bioelectrochemical Systems

A collaboration between:

  • Cullen Buie, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Korneel Rabaey, Senior Research Fellow, University of Queensland, Australia


Developing a New Post-Extiction Model for the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction Event

A collaboration between:

  • Rogers Summons, Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scienes
  • Julio Sepulveda, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Scienes
  • Laia Alegret, Professor, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain


ODAS: Opinion Formation and Decision Making in Multi-Agent Social Networks

A collaboration between:

  • John Tsitsiklis, Professor, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Cesar Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Media Arts and Sciences
  • Julien Hendrickx, Assistant Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Vincent Blondel, Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium


Co-Innovation: Bringing Rural Africa into the MIT Class, Taking the MIT Class to Rural Africa

  • Clapperton Mavhunga, Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society