Projects supported through the Faculty Strategic Research Funding scheme
| Principal Investigator | Department | Title |
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| Nuria Tapia-Ruiz | Chemistry | Developing a circular process to produce high performance MgO templated hard carbons through the use of mild acids to regenerate the MgO feedstock - SME engagement with Deregallera Limited |
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| Mimi Hii | Chemistry | Testing the reproducibility of high-throughput experiments: an inter-institutional study- SME engagement with Dayhoff Labs (DL) Ltd |
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|---|---|---|
| James McGinty | Physics | Low-cost, high resolution optical projection tomography for volumetric biomedical imaging- SME engagement with Cairn Research (CRL) Ltd |
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| Nick Brooks | Chemistry | Ultra stable foams for crop protection- SME engagement with Frosco Ltd |
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| Emma Ransome | Life Sciences | Enhancing carbon capture in UK seagrass restoration projects - SME engagement with Ocean Conservation Trust |
| Ed Cohen | Mathematics | The Optimisation of Battery Electrode Microstructure through Statistical Methods - SME engagement with Addionics Ltd |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tiago Cunha Luis | Life Sciences | A single-cell RNA-sequencing platform to characterize leukemic stem cells |
| Doryen Bubeck | Life Sciences | Photoactivated graphene grids for cryoEM |
| Grigory Kagan | Physics | Nanowire array targets for studying thermonuclear plasmas with ultra-high-power lasers |
| Antoine Jackier | Mathematics | Liquidity Risk in Derivatives Central Clearing - SME engagement with Zeliade Systems |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Lesley Cohen | Physics | Electron Spin polarisation properties of Chiral Molecules |
| Nixon Peter | Life Sciences | Development of a ‘solar biobattery’ for use in electronics |
| Audrey de Nazelle | CEP | Design and Outreach Strategies for Air Pollution Engagement (DOSAP): Developing and testing an evidence-based smartphone app - SME engagement with Hubbub |
| Tolga Bozkurt | Life Sciences | Developing biosensors to monitor plant disease responses |
| Felice Torrisi | Chemistry | Biofibres |
| Ramon Vilar- Compte | Chemistry | An efficient and low-cost material for removal of arsenic from water- SME engagement with CustomMed |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Child | Life Sciences | Towards multiplexed in vivo phenotypic screening for novel antimicrobial target discovery |
| Paul French | Physics | Automated multiwell plate FLIM of cellular autofluorescence to read out stem cell state and identify key metabolic regulators and mechanisms governing pluripotency |
| Gerald Larrouy-Maumus | Life Sciences | A new diagnosis based on lipid A analysis by MALDI-MS instantly discriminates chromosomal and plasmidic resistance to a last resort antibiotics |
| Ed Tate | Chemistry | Targeting a bacterium to kill a worm: towards a safe macrofilaricide for global health |
| Bill Proud | Physics | Investigation of Hysteresis in Several Materials under Impact Conditions - SME engagement with SynBioSys Ltd. |
| James Bull | Chemistry | New Approaches for Sulfoximine Synthesis: Building Blocks for Drug Discovery |
| Ali Salehi-Reyhani | Chemistry | A point-of-care device for health authorities to rapidly identify counterfeit drugs in the field |
| Nadia Guerra | Life Sciences | Develop NK/tumour organoid for drug testing |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jenny Nelson | Physics | Proof-of-principle study: conjugated polymers for electricity storage |
| Demetrios Papageorgiou | Mathematics | Science and novel applications of superhydrophobic surfaces in the presence of heat and mass transfer |
| Cristina Lo Celso | Life Sciences | High resolution imaging of the haematopoietic stem cell niche |
| Gad Frankel | Life Sciences | The impact of treatments with beta lactam antibiotics on gut physiology and the microbiota |
| Robert Weinzerl | Life Sciences | Drugging activation domain/coactivator interactions: an interdisciplinary approach |
| Marina Kuimova | Chemistry | Probing heterogeneity of the endoplasmic reticulum to elucidate mechanisms of pathology and therapeutic targets |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Heather Graven | Physics | Developing a measurement capability for radiocarbon in atmospheric CO2 at the new state-of-the-art radiocarbon laboratory in Bristol |
| Gerald Larrouy-Maumus | Life Sciences | Use of metabolomics approaches to understand how bacterial pathogens cope with stresses and antimicrobials |
| Paul French | Physics | Development of low-cost super-resolving microscopes - SME engagement with Cairn Research Ltd |
| Audrey de Nazelle | Centre for Environmental Policies | Enhancing the Plume Labs App and Monitor for Research and Policy (E-Plume) - SME engagement with Plume Labs |
| Ramon Vilar Compte | Chemistry | New optical probes to image Formyl Peptide Receptors (FPRs) |
| James Bull | Chemistry | Diversity Oriented Synthesis of Chiral Saturated Heterocycles: A New Approach to a Screening Collection of Fragment and Lead-like Compounds |
| Joshua Edel | Chemistry | Real-time Sensing of Dopamine and L-DOPA using DNA Aptamers for Improved Parkinson's Disease Therapies |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Beeby | Life Sciences | Molecular mechanism of Salmonella infection |
| Silvia Diez-Gonzalez | Chemistry | Well-defined copper catalusts for the N-arylation of bulky amines |
| Andrew Ashley | Chemistry | Energy efficient catalytic hydrogenation of Nitrogen to Ammonia: sustainably feeding our future |
| Lesley Cohen | Physics | Transport properties of self assembled monolayers |
| Matthew Fuchter | Chemistry | Molecular symmetry breaking through photochemical trapping of vibrationally desymmetrised states |
| Nick Franks and Bill Wisden | Life Sciences | Capturing the neuronal ensembles underlying sleep and sedation |
| Tim Horbury | Physics | Solar Orbiter |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Albrecht | Chemistry | Dielectric Spectroscopy in Nanopores for Single-Molecule Biosensing |
| Roberto Trotta | Physics | Search for Dark Matter particles with the XENON experiment |
| Marina Kuimova | Chemistry | Molecular rotors on surfaces and in membranes– novel probes for shear stress |
| Vahid Shahrezaei | Mathematics | Integrated analysis of bacterial cell-to-cell variability using microfluidics |
| Kenneth Long | Physics | Proton Accelerators for Science and Innovation |
| Aleksandar Mijatovic | Mathematics | Imperial Probability Centre |
| Audrey de Nazelle | Centre for Environmental Policies | Sustainable Behavioural Change |
| William Branford | Physics | Topological Spin Textures |
| Amanda Chatten | Physics | Demonstration of a photo-electrochemical reactor/luminescent waveguide assembly to split water using waste energy from a high concentration quantum well solar cell photovoltaic array |
| Dave Clemens | Physics | James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Access |
| E.J. Milner-Gulland | Life Sciences | Making London Nature-Smart |
| Jie Song | Life Sciences | Epigenetic reprogramming in plant regeneration |
| Guy Woodward | Life Sciences | Meeting Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment with A New Experimental Mesocosm Facility |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Gad Frankel | Life Sciences | Application of live imaging to study growth and survival of bacteria in food matrices |
| Charlotte Williams | Chemistry | Catalysis Research Training Network, Kick-Start Funding to Strengthen ICL collaboration with Oxford and UCL |
| Patricia Hunt | Chemistry | Closing the loop: Ionic Liquids for Recycling WEEE |
| Joshua Edel | Chemistry | A Novel Platform for Sensing Trace Levels of Explosives in Air |
| Erhard Hohenester | Life Sciences | Molecular mechanisms of laminin function in health and disease |
| Jerome Gauntlett | Physics | String theory, quantum field theory and cosmology |
| William Proud | Physics | Phase 2 of Institute of Shock Physics |
| Leonardo Bottolo | Mathematics | Modelling complex genetic diseases by Bayesian sparse graphical chains |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Demetrios Papageorgiou | Mathematics | Centre for Computational methods in science and engineering (CMSE) |
| Roland Smith | Physics | Refurbishment scheme for target chamber and diagnostics development laboratory |
| Fionn Dunne | Materials/Physics | New, robust, portable, high-speed displacement system |
| Andrew Ashley | Chemistry | Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids with Designed Non-Metallic Lewis Acid Catalysts |
| Timothy Barraclough | Life Sciences | Evolutionary dynamics of gut bacteria and their consequences for host function |
| Alan Heavens | Physics | CosmoClassic - cross-disciplinary collaboration at the new Imperial Centre for Inference and Cosmology |
| Karl Sandeman | Physics | High temperature magnetocalorics for power generation |
| Nilay Shah and Paul Freemont | Life Sciences | Support towards the development of the Industryal Biotechnology Hub |
| Ramon Vilar-Compte | Chemistry | A multiscale approach to understanding the role of non-canonical DNA structures in gene expression |
| Tom Welton | Chemistry | Ionic Liquid Biorefining of Lignocellulose to Sustainable Polymers |
| Joshua Edel | Chemistry | Neon Focused-Ion-Beam (Ne-FIB) Nanofabrication |
| Tim Albrecht | Chemistry | Catalysis Research Training Network, Kick-Start Funding to Strengthen ICL collaboration with Oxford and UCL |
| Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jon Marangos | Physics | Attoscond electronic dynamics in molecular and condensed phase systems |
| Stephen Matthews | Life Sciences | Understanding molecular control of functional amyloidogenesis |
| Anne Dell | Life Sciences | Deciphering the Bacterial Glycocode - linked to Wellcome Trust SIA |
| Demetrios Papageorgiou | Mathematics | Development of Underpinning Technology for Laminar Flow Control Fellowship Funding |
| Jerome Gauntlett | Physics | String Theory, Quantum Field Theory and Cosmology |
| John Seddon | Chemistry | Sculpting Amphiphilic Structures |
| Peter Haynes | Physics | A platform for future development and application of the ONETEP software |
| Steve Schwartz | Physics | Institutional support for Astronomy consolidated grant |
| Xiaodong Zhang | Life Sciences | Structure and mechanism of key components in DNA damage response |