EPSRC IAA Projects Funded in 2023
Standard IAA Project Awards
Chiral Metasurface Driven Optical Variable Devices
Affar Karimullah (PI), Malcolm Kadowala , School of Chemistry, in collaboration with De La Rue - £49,953
Development of an ultrasonic sensor for hydrogen metering applications
Andrew Feeney (PI), Sandy Cochran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with MeterTech Ltd., CeramTec and Scottish Enterprise - £38,980
Improving the sustainability of resins and films with natural lignin derived from biomass residues
Dave Adams (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Bio-Sep Ltd, IBioIC and Futamura - £43,778
Electrochromic Polymer Films
Emily Draper (PI), Dave Adams, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Eastman Chemical Company and NSG Group - £53,396
RF-PowerEd Maintenance-Free SensIng in ENergy-Deprived EnviRonments (REMINDER)
Mahmoud Wagih (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £38,088
Older Autistic’s Kit – Sustainability
Marion Hersh (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £50,000
ForceBiology: software development and real-world benchmarking
Nikolaj Gadegaard (PI), Badri Aekbote, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with AstraZenica and Clyde Biosciences - £46,198
FAR-Market: Exploration of the Technology Frontier in Financial Asset Recommendation
Richard McCreadie (PI), School of Computing Science, in collaboration with Findexable and National Bank of Greece - £29,000
Showcase of the 6G test capabilities at the University of Glasgow (SOUL)
Chong Li (PI), Edward Wasige, Qammer Abbasi, Hasan Abbas, Abdullah Al-Khalidi and Mahmoud Wagih, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Keysight Technologies, Institution of Engineering and Technology - £34,100
A first in-silico trial of quantifying the drug effects of SGLT2i in heart failure
Hao Gao (PI), Xiaoyu Luo, Colin Berry, Dirk Husmeier, Nick Hill, School of Mathematics & Statistics in collaboration with Golden Jubilee National Hospital and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board - £50,000
Augmented Reality for Trans-Disciplinary Design of ReconFigurable Manufacturing Systems (ARTIFY)
Rami Ghannam (PI), Paul Chapman, Euan McGookin, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Zappar LTD, ARuVR, Censis and Glasgow School of Art - £35,377
Stability test product development
Peter Skabara (PI), Oleksandr Kanibolotskyy, School of Chemistry in collaboration with GW Associates and Plessey Semiconductors Ltd - £47,044
Containerisation-Based Image Recognition Algorithms in CubeSats for Autonomous Surveillance of Geographical Locations (ORBICULAR)
Awais Aziz Shah (PI), Lito Michala, School of Computing Science in collaboration with Alba Orbital - £30,855
Controlled Agriculture Lab Using Minewater (CALUM)
Laura Hepburn (PI), Yiji Lu, Adrian Boyce, Neil Burnside (University of Strathclyde), SUERC in collaboration with The Carnhill Group and Town Rock Energy - £49,988
Fast Track Project Awards
Glasgow Science Festival
Deborah McNeil, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences: Innovation Engagement & Enterprise - £5,000
Cross Sector Knowledge Exchange Event 2023 with National Centre for Resilience
Elaine Hunter, College of Science and Engineering Office, in collaboration with Natural Hazards Partnership; Climate Exchange; ECCI University of Edinburgh; UK Health Security Agency; Scottish Flood Forum; Met Office; West of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership; Performance, Delivery and Resilience Directorate and Scottish Government - £750
Obtaining full set of properties for piezoelectric materials using a novel characterisation tool
Sakineh Fotouhi (PI), Sandy Cochran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with CeramTec - £5,000
Support for Future Wireless Outreach and Showcase Event
Dave Pollock, College of Science and Engineering Office, Qammer Abassi, James Watt School of Engineering - £1,800
Isotopes in Healthcare Technologies
Douglas Morrison (PI), Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific - £4,150
QT Comic Books in collaboration with Flexpress
Steffan Gwyn, College of Science and Engineering Office - £2,120
Opening Up Photonics
Kirsty Annand (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Photonics Scotland, IoP Scotland and KTN - £4,710
Spontaneous gold nanoparticle formation to test woodaged food and drink products
William Pevler (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Acetum S.p.A - £720
Stoma Bag Noise Reduction
Massimo Vassalli (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Associazione POIC e dintorni APS - £5,000
Scottish Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association Membership
Manosh Paul (PI), Mark Symes, James Watt School of Engineering, David Hughes, College of Science and Engineering Office, in collaboration with Scottish Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association - £348
Greening the Grey: from 3D design (TRL5) to ecoformliner manufacturing (TRL 6) to concrete manufacture (TRL6) and installation in an operational environment (TRL7)
Larissa Naylor (PI), Timothy Baxter, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, in collaboration with Poundfield Precast, ExpLearn Limited t/a Concrete Scotland and Meshcanics - £5,750
5G Vehicle Integrated Simulation and Teleoperation Applications (5G VISTA)
Ola Popoola (PI), Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Aidrivers LTD - £4,980
University of Glasgow Exhibit Stand at All Energy 2023
Anne-Mari Gillespie, Dave Pollock, David Hughes, College of Science and Engineering Office - £2,216
Impact acceleration via Emissions Free Air Transport through Superconductivity (EFATS) 2023 Workshop
Wenjuan Song (PI) Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami, James Watt School of Engineering - £2,700
Demonstration of MobileModMicro at Microscience Microscopy Congress Exhibition 2023
Akhil Kallepalli (PI), Graham Gibson, Robert Archibald, School of Physics & Astronomy - £2,000
MobileModMicro – 3D printed microscope and modular light sources demonstrator kit
Akhil Kallepalli (PI), Graham Gibson, Robert Archibald, School of Physics & Astronomy - £1,200
ADS Sustainable Aviation Event (Oct 2023)
Dave Pollock, Anne-Mari Gillespie, College of Science and Engineering - £2,000
ITU-T Standardisation Meeting and Workshop
Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with United Nations ITU-T - £1,250
Dielectrophoretic roll system for high performance electronics using contactless selective assembly of nanostructures on large areas (ANALOG)
Hadi Heidari (PI), Linsey Robertson, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with ARM, Semitronics, Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd and Printed Electronics Ltd - £10,000
An Electron Diffractometer for Nanomaterial Structure Characterisation
Ross Forgan (PI), Linsey Robertson, School of Chemistry - £10,000
Colloidal Quantum Dots for SWIR Sensor Integration, packaging, and Reliability Evaluation Mon Kyaw (PI), Aye Su, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with Quantum Science Ltd - £4,900
Robotics Demonstration for Nuclear Industry
Guodong Zhao (PI), Burak Kizilkaya, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with RACE, UK and Atomic Energy Authority - £4,523
Development boost for the Device Modelling group open-source Biomolecule-Oxide Simulator Naveen Kumar (PI), Vihar Georgiev, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and Vienna University of Technology - £4,434
European Semiconductor Laser Workshop industry reception
Scott Watson (PI), James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with Vector Photonics, Sivers Photonics, Alter Technology, Menlo Systems, Toptica, Scintil Photonics, Sacher Lasertechnik, Brolis Sensor Technology and Furukawa Electric Co - £1,707
A Virtual Environment for Bespoke 3D Orthopaedic Trauma Surgical Planning
Jon Cooper (PI), David Shields, Matthiew Poyad, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with National Health Service – Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Glasgow School of Art - £5,000
Research Associate IAA Project Awards
PPC-FI: Personalized Portfolio Construction for Financial Investments
Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig (PI), School of Computing Science, in collaboration with National Bank of Greece - £17,586
Smart connected fabric for public engagement and Arts
Gilles Baillet (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Katie Tubbing - £2,500
Partnership Development: Validation of Virtual Reality Motion Sickness Mitigation Technologies in Real World Settings
Gang Li (PI), School of Psychology & Neuroscience, Katharina Pohlmann, School of Computing Science, in collaboration with SyncVR and Royal Society of Edinburgh - £20,000
3D Arthroscopy
Simon Mekhail (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, in collaboration with Auckland Bioengineering Institute - £19,979
High-speed optical mapping platform for assessing cardiotoxicity
Sharika Mohanan (PI), Caroline Müllenbroich, School of Physics & Astronomy, Godfrey Smith, School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, in collaboration with Clyde Biosciences Ltd - £20,000
Impact Acceleration in Cybersecurity of Supply Chains to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)
Tania Wallis (PI), School of Computing Science, in collaboration with National Cyber Security Centre - £18,000
FAR-AI: Deployment of AI-based Financial Asset Recommendation System
Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig (PI), School of Computing Science - £11,601
Designing an interactive Greenspace dashboard for stakeholders using mobile phone app data Michael Sinclair (PI), College of Social Sciences, School of Social & Political Sciences in collaboration with Glasgow City Council, Greenspace Scotland, Huq Industries and Urban Big Data Centre - £19,887
Optical Stethoscope-based Vital Signal Monitoring using Neuromorphic Chip
Haobo Li (PI), Marija Vaskevicute, Daniele Faccio, Hadi Heidari, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Fahim Kawsar, School of Physics & Astronomy in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Nokia Bell Labs - £19,577
Other IAA Calls for Proposals - Awards
Matched funding for Turing Network Development Award
Neil Findlay, Ana Basiri, College of Science and Engineering Office, in collaboration with Alan Turing Institute - £10,000
- Conference and workshop
Ana Basiri (PI), School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, in collaboration with Alan Turing Institute
- Improving the Reception of Visual Generative AI
Stefan Luca (PI), School of Law, in collaboration with Alan Turing Institute, University of Newcastle, and University of Leeds - Turing Network for AI in Offshore Wind Geotechnics
Zhiwei Gao (PI), Eky Febrianto, James Watt School of Engineering, Cristos Anagnostopoulos, School of Computing Science, in collaboration with Alan Turing Institute, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, University of Bristol and Lancaster University
Lead optimisation of an allosteric c-RAF inhibitor peptide for the treatment of KRAS-driven pancreatic cancer
Connor Blair (PI), George Baillie, School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health - £50,000
Chemistry SPR Equipment Requirement - Portable mass spectrometer for thermal analysis, Cryostream, 500 MHz nmr repair
Claire Wilson (PI), School of Chemistry - £146,000
EPSRC IAA spend by end-March 2023 to support commercialisation
Darian Brookes, Research & Innovation Services, in collaboration with Findexable, Cambridge Consultants, Steve Holmes, Strategic Scientific Consulting, David Nugent and CRSI - £163,500
Equipment to support current IAA/innovateUK activities
Huabing Yin, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Epigem Limited - £82,800
Rapid, low-cost molecular tests for infectious disease detection in farms - Kinematic laminator
Julien Reboud (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £12,230
Ultrasonic transducer analysers
Margaret Lucas (PI), Rebecca Cleary, James Watt School of Engineering, £6,500
Rheometer
Massimo Vassalli, James Watt School of Engineering - £42,599
2 x Comsol commercial licenses plus microfluidics module for work with Envisics and Merck
Nigel Mottram, School of Mathematics & Statistics - £14,400
Market Exploitation of Software-Enabled Modular Robotics for Warehouse Industry and Beyond
Guodong Zhao (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £25,000
AI-enabled Transformation of Space and Asset Management
Qammer Abbasi (PI), Shuja Ansari, Muhammed Ali Imran, Jalil ur Rehman Kazim, James Watt School of Engineering - £25,000
EPSRC Contribution to SFC Quantum Arc
Steffan Gwyn, Sam Bayliss, College of Science & Engineering Office in collaboration with Chromacity, Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Heriot Watt and St Andrews, and Technology Scotland - £54,121
Strategic investments
xApp Store
Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £99,996
Kepsoft Community: A social enterprise for kidney exchange software
David Manlove (PI), School of Computing Science – in collaboration with NHS Blood and Transplant, Centro Nazionali Trapianti, Organización Nacional de Trasplantes, Nederlandse Transplantatie Stichting, Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service, Organ Coordination Office, Koç University Hospital, Scandiatransplant - £99,365