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EPSRC IAA Projects 2017-2021

Aeronautics

Supported Projects in Aeronautics
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Mirko Kovac	Late Stage Scheme	Knowledge Transfer Fellow in Aerial Robotics
Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei	Late Stage Scheme	Structural Health Monitoring Technology Cluster

Bioengineering

Supported Projects within Bioengineering
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Martyn Boutelle	Early Stage Scheme	Wearable sensors for rehydration tracking
Dr Reiko Tanaka	Late Stage Scheme	Repurposing mechanistic models of atopic dermatitis for identification of new drug targets
Professor Mengxing Tang	Late Stage Scheme	Ultrafast contrast echocardiography – prototype development for clinical translation
Professor Anthony Bull	Late Stage Scheme	Low-cost knee disarticulation prosthetic device
Dr Spyros Masouros	Early Stage Scheme	Development of advanced add-ons to finite element analysis software
Professor Anthony Bull	Late Stage Scheme	e‐PERF: Tuned Muscle Electrical Stimulation to optimise PERFormance and for rehabilitation support

Chemical Engineering

Supported Projects in Chemical Engineering
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Daryl Williams	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Surface Physiochemical Properties in Bioadhesion and Biofilm Removal for Pilot Scale Reactors
Dr Daryl Williams	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Industrial Validation of a Chromatographic Approach for Predicting mAbs Aggregation
Dr Miao Guo	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Towards Agriculture 4.0 – Computer-Aided Decision-Making Tool To Support Precision Farming
Dr Daryl Williams	Early Stage Scheme	Chromatographic tools for mapping the stability of therapeutic antibody mutants
Professor Andrew Livingston	Late Stage Scheme	Enhancing the Impact of Nanostar Sieving
Dr Christos Markides	Late Stage Scheme	A prototype hihg-performance spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic thermal solar collector
Dr Francesca Ceroni	Early Stage Scheme	Burden driven feedbacl control of gene expression for bioproduction
Dr Camille Petit	Late Stage Scheme	Towards the scale-up of structured porous boron nitride products
Professor Nilay Shah	Late Stage Scheme	Productisation of Urban System Models
Professor Erich Muller	Late Stage Scheme	Molecular modelling for physical property prediction
Dr Cleo Kontoravdi	Early Stage Scheme	Cell-free synthesis of therapeutic proteins
Professor Omar Matar	Late Stage Scheme	Production and on-line monitoring of liquid phase exfoliation graphene

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Supported Projects in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Andrew Phillips	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Digital design of tailored heterogeneous biomaterials : a software tool for the biomedical industry
Dr Hong Wong	Late Stage Scheme	Large scale delivery of high-strength clogging resistant permeable pavement

Computing

Supported Projects in Computing
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Bernhard Kainz	Early Stage Scheme	Maximising impact of AI for automatic guidance during ultrasound examination
Dr Ben Glocker	Late Stage Scheme	DeepMedic – An Easy-to-Use Deep Learning Image Segmentation Tool for Clinical Research
Professor Julie McCann	Late Stage Scheme	CogniSense

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Supported Projects in Dyson School of Design Engineering
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Thrishantha Nanayakarra	Late Stage Scheme	A smart phone based portable solution to detect Red Palm Weevil Larvae
Dr Marco Aurisicchio	Early Stage Scheme	A tool to empower the FMCG sector to transition to the Circular Economy
Dr Thrishantha Nanayakarra	Late Stage Scheme	Final user centred design iteration of a portable red palm weevil detection sensor

Earth Science and Engineering

Supported Projects in Earth Science and Engineering
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr JP Latham	Late Stage Scheme	DEM Plus: A simulation tool for the analysis of packed structures of complex-shaped particles
Dr JP Latham	Late Stage Scheme	Robustness-Simulator: ROBUSim A coastal engineer’s tool for simulation of concrete unit resilience to breakages

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Supported Projects in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Tim Constandinou	Early Stage Scheme	Closed-Loop Neural Interfaces – Demonstration and Community Engagement
Professor Chris Toumazou	Early Stage Scheme	Development of a novel method for quantification of DNA Methylation in cancer patients
Dr Bruno Clerckx	Late Stage Scheme	Power over WiFi
Dr Tim Constandinou	Late Stage Scheme	Application Specific ICs for Neural Interfacing
Professor Paul Mitcheson	Late Stage Scheme	Lightweight, Cost-Effective Wireless Charger
Dr Christos-Savvas Bouganis	Late Stage Scheme	fgpaConvNet: Mapping Convolutional Neural Networks onto FPGAs
Dr Bruno Clerckx	Late Stage Scheme	Rate-Splitting for 5G and Beyond
Professor Alessandro Astolfi	Early Stage Scheme	Impact of advanced control on performance of industrial fexible robots
Professor Christofer Toumazou	Early Stage Scheme	Multi-modal Intelligent Neurostimulator – IP consolidation and early-stage commercialisation
Dr Cong Ling	Late Stage Scheme	Software Implementation of Polar Codes for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Professor Christofer Toumazou	Late Stage Scheme	Fast and precise detection of DNA methylation using a sample to result platform for cancer patients

Materials

Supported Projects in Materials
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Martyn McLachlan	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Radiofrequency diodes fabricated via adhesion lithography (RAFALITH) / RF and Microwave devices
Professor David Dye	Late Stage Scheme	Stronger Titanium Discs: The Industrial Realisation of a Processing Innovation
Dr Theoni Georgiou	Early Stage Scheme	Thermoresponsive Polymers – Mimicking Pluronics
Dr David Payne	Late Stage Scheme	Scaling-up Solvent-based Lead-acid Battery Recycling
Professor David Dye	Late Stage Scheme	A new high strength machinable Ti Disc alloy for jet engine compressors

Mechanical Engineering

Supported Projects in Mechanical Engineering
Princiapl Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan	Early Stage Scheme	Clinical Impact of Quantification of Symptoms of Parkinson Disease
Dr Greg Offer	Late Stage Scheme	Smart On-board Lithium Ion Diagnostic (SOLID)
Dr Matthew Eaton	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	An Integrated Isogeometric and Polynomial Chaos Approach for Geometric Uncertainty Quantification in Nuclear Engineering and Design
Dr Matthew Eaton	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Best Estimate Plus Uncertainty (BEPU) Modelling and Simulation Methods for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) and Naval Nuclear Power Plant (NNPP) Nuclear Safety Analysis During Start-up and Power Ascension
Professor Jianguo Lin	Late Stage Scheme	Acceleration of the development of a patented test apparatus for commercialisation
Dr Tom Reddyhoff	Late Stage Scheme	Efficiency Improving Oil Additives
Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan	Late Stage Scheme	Assessment of Clinical Impact of Quantification of Symptoms of Parkinson Disease
Professor Jianguo Lin	Late Stage Scheme	THE ACCELERATION OF COMMERCIALISING A PATENTED EXTRUSION TECHNIQUE
Dr Tom Reddyhoff	Late Stage Scheme	LASER SURFACE TEXTURING TO IMPROVE ENGINE EFFICIENCY
Professor Daniele Dini	Late Stage Scheme	Machine-Learning Pattern Recognition Prototype for Liquid Foams (MaLPReP-Foams)
Dr Jonathan Jeffers	Late Stage Scheme	Transaltion of Imperial Minimally Invasive Total Shoulder Replacement System to clinical use for early stage arthritic patients
Professor Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Development of Laser-Doppler Flowmetry Systems for Deep Vessel Detection
Dr Matthew Eaton	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	High Performance, scalable, self-adaptive, exact geometry isogeometric methods, for radiation shielding and nuclear reactor physics analysis of small modular reactors (SMRs) and Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan	Late Stage Scheme	Natural User Interface (NUI) for Assistive Technology
Dr Matthew Eaton	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Nuclear Criticality safety Assessment of Wetted Fissile Powders and Emulsions in Multi-Layered, Multiphase, Media
Dr Greg Offer	Late Stage Scheme	Ultra-fast Model Based Battery Charging

Department of Medicine
Department of Surgery and Cancer

Department of Medicine

Supported Projects in Medicine
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Professor Paul Freemont	Late Stage Scheme	Exploiting the De Novo Design of Peptides for High Performance Wearable Fabrics

Department of Surgery and Cancer

Chemistry

Supported Projects in Chemistry
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Professor David Klug	Late Stage Scheme	Translation of EVV 2DIR Spectroscopy to the UK Central Laser Facility and demonstration of Application to Early Stage Drug Discovery with AstraZeneca
Professor Ed Tate	Late Stage Scheme	Capitalising on chemistry innovation to expand the impact of Sulforadex, a novel therapeutic in multiple disease indications
Dr Nick Brooks	Early Stage Scheme	High Pressure Instrumentation
Dr Marin Sawa	Late Stage Scheme	Use of a Solar Biobattery in printed electronics
Dr Nick Brooks	Late Stage Scheme	Applying high pressure technology to fuel development
Professor Oscar Ces	Late Stage Scheme	Development of High-Throughput Membrane Permeability Assays for the Life Sciences Sector

Mathematics

Supported Projects in Mathematics
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Professor Richard Craster	Late Stage Scheme	Commercialisation and Impact of code BLUE
Dr Caroline Colijn	Late Stage Scheme	Improved TB cluster analysis and control using WGS data
Dr Nick Jones	Early Stage Scheme	Sub-national vaccine coverage forecasts and analytics: developing a forecasting portal proof-of-concept, building networks and engaging policy-makers and researchers
Dr Nick Jones	Early Stage Scheme	A system for robust, long term and real-time ecosystem monitoring
Dr Colin Cotter	Late Stage Scheme	Translating Hybridisable Solvers to Gung Ho

Physics

Supported Projects in Physics
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Daniel Eakins	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Implementation of advanced X-Ray diagnostics in complementarity to optical methods for probing shockwave-driven phenomena
Professor Roland Smith	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Optical EMP characterisation and new low EMP optically levitated target systems for the UK's National Laser Facility
Professor Jon Marangos	Late Stage Scheme	Liquids in Micron Thickness Sheets
Dr Daniel Eakins	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Development and application of advanced X-ray radiography diagnostics for probing extreme material deformation
Professor Richard Thompson	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Coherent control of ions in a microfabricated ion trap
Dr Piers Barnes	Early Stage Scheme	Dissemination of open source solar cell simulation software package
Professor Jenny Nelson	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Supporting rural electrification in developing countries
Professor Roy Taylor	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Wavelength versatile ultrfast fibre lasers for biomedical nonlinear microscopy applications
Professor Michael Damzen	Early Stage Scheme	Next Generation Bright Light Technology (BEST-Light)
Professor Ed Hinds	Early Stage Scheme	Exhibiting a Cold Atom Quantum Accelerometer at the National Quantum Technologies Showcase
Professor Michael Damzen	Early Stage Scheme	Vortex Lasers and Nano-fabrication
Professor Roy Taylor	Early Stage Scheme	Bringing next generation visibale fibre lasers to market
Professor Ed Hinds	Late Stage Scheme	A Cold Atom Quantum Accelerometer on a Moving Platform
Professor Paul French	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Development and commercialisation of openScopes modular microscope systems
Dr Vitali Averbukh	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Quantum Chemistry in Dataflow
Professor Zulfikar Najmudin	Knowledge Transfer Secondment	Preparing a Compact Source of Energetic Electrons
Professor Roy Taylor	Late Stage Scheme	OEM visible fibre lasers for super-resolution microscope systems

Life Sciences

Supported Projects in Life Sciences
Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr David Mann	Early Stage Scheme	Covalent Fragment-Based Drug Discovery
Dr David Mann	Late Stage Scheme	Covalent Fragment-Based Drug Discovery - Stage Two

Centre for Environmental Policy

Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Professor Lord Ara Darzi	Late Stage Scheme	Policy Impact in Digital Health
Professor Naomi Chayen	Late Stage Scheme	Increasing the Success and Marketability of the Product ‘Chayen Reddy MIP’

Principal Investigator	Scheme	Title
Dr Robert Gross	Late Stage Scheme	Briefing Paper on Smart and Flexible Electric Heat

EPSRC IAA Projects 2017-2021

Projects Supported within the Faculty of Engineering

Projects Supported within the Faculty of Medicine

Projects Supported within the Faculty of Natural Sciences

Projects Supported within Imperial College Business School