Imperial has received STFC IAA funding since 2014. The 2022-23 funding will be administered through the new UKRI IAA.
The objectives of the STFC Impact Acceleration Account are to:
- Support high quality strategically focussed impact activities arising from STFC supported research to develop proof of concept studies or to carry out market analysis to identify potential impacts from the developed research/technologies;
- Generate interest in undertaking impact activities across the STFC supported community;
- Increase the number of high quality case studies related to the direct and/or indirect impact of STFC science.
The following projects have been supported through the STFC IAA:
Supported Projects 2020-21
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Dr Antonin Vacheret |
Physics |
nFacet Mark II detector systems |
Professors Ken Long and Gavin Davies |
Physics |
Real-time, high-performance, on-board processing for radiobiological dose deposition imaging |
Professor Nicholas Harrison |
Chemistry |
New Computational Tools for Industry –Digital Development of Advanced Materials: Proof of Principle |
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Supported Projects 2019
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Professor Gavin Davies |
Physics |
Serenity: Production & support of a generic FPGA based readout board for high data-rate applications |
Professor Ken Long |
Physics |
The SmartPhantom – A beam profile and does measuring device. |
Professor Sanjeev Gupta |
Earth Science and Engineering |
Collaborative development of 3D geo-visualisation tools and techniques derived from robotic exploration of Mars, with tunnelling, engineering geology and medical imaging industries |
Dr Adam Masters |
Physics |
Developing a low-resource experiment to search for earthquake precursors |
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Supported Projects 2018
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Dr Dave Clements |
Physics |
Cosmic Sculpture: 3D Printing, from Planets to the Universe |
Professor Gavin Davies |
Physics |
High Energy Physics Spin-Out |
Professor Ken Long |
Physics |
A Detector for Online Measurements of the Energy and Transverse Distributions of Laser-Driven Ion Beams |
Professor Sanjeev Gupta |
Earth Science and Engineering |
Geo-visualisation for planetary exploration: enhancing research learnings through industry collaboration for future space missions |
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Supported Projects 2017
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Professor Mark Sephton |
Earth Science and Engineering |
Biologically inspired materials for new thermal shields |
Professor Steven Schwartz |
Physics |
SpaceLab Industry Showcase |
Dr Roberto Trotta |
Physics |
Map of the Universe. To find out more about this project please see the case study. |
Mr Chris Carr |
Physics |
Miniaturised Magnetometers |
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Supported Projects 2016
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Dr Antonin Vacheret |
Physics |
Development of a high performance radiation identifier system |
Professor Sanjeev Gupta |
Earth Science and Engineering |
Development of opportunities for collaborative research with industry in geo-visualisation for application to planetary exploration |
Dr Dave Clements |
Physics |
Manufacturing the Cosmic Microwave Background |
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Supported Projects 2015
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Dr Richie Abel |
Surgery & Cancer |
Improving Osteoporosis Treatment: A global Concern |
Professor Mark Rehkamper |
Earth Sciences & Engineering |
Testing a Novel Multi–Tracer Approach for Assessing Bioaccumulation and Environmental Fate of Engineered Nanoparticles |
Professor Naomi Chayen |
Surgery & Cancer |
Bridging the Science and Commercialisation of a New Crystallization Product |
Professor Ken Long |
Physics |
Generating Impact from the 2016 Neutrino conference |
Professor Jon Marangos |
Physics |
Request for meeting support as part of accelerating impact for ultrafast X-ray sources |
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Supported Projects 2014
Principal Investigator | Department | Project Title |
Dr Mimi Hii |
Chemistry |
Demystifying Catalyst Leaching |
Dr Roberto Trotta |
Physics |
From Supernovae to Road Safety: Astrostatistical data analysis techniques for accident prevention. To find out more about this project please see the case study. |
Professor Steven Schwartz |
Physics |
Imperial Space Lab 2014 |
Professor Mark Rehkamper |
Earth Sciences & Engineering |
Application of trace metal isotopes as novel tools for early detection of breast cancer. To find out more about this project please see the case study
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Professor Mark Sephton |
Earth Sciences & Engineering |
A Laboratory Subcritical Water System for Simulating Enhanced Oil Recovery |
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