Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Intelligent Transport that are of particular relevance:
EPSRC Core Equipment 2024Wen Wang, Kshitij Sabnis, Andrei Sapelkin, Joe Briscoe and Ian Sanders
£449,082 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (03-01-2025 - 02-07-2026)
(S&E Externally Funded PhD Studentship, Commercial, 2024/25, Lab-Based, Industry-funded, Band B for 3.5y) Birla Carbon PhD Studentship #2James Busfield
£159,453 Birla Carbon USA Inc. (01-01-2025 - 30-06-2028)
SLB PhD Studentship #7 (S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2024/25, Commercial, Fully External, Band C, 3.5Y)James Busfield
£133,219 Schlumberger Technology Corporation (01-01-2025 - 30-06-2028)
Understanding crack arrest mechanisms in natural resilient materials for efficient bionic designHaibao Liu
£11,980 Royal Society (01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026)
PANORAMIC: Physicochemical and mechanical studies of agricultural waste-based materials in South Africa and Zambia for sustainable packagingHaibao Liu
£143,184 Royal Society (13-12-2024 - 12-12-2027)
Small-scale vertical-axis wind turbines for backup domestic electricity generation in rural South African communitiesKshitij Sabnis and Neil Cagney
£134,505 Royal Society (13-12-2024 - 12-12-2027)
Bridgestone Elastomer Research Annual Renewal #21James Busfield
£4,000 Bridgestone Corporation (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025)
Increasing spatial and temporal resolution of schlieren imaging in high-speed aerodynamicsKshitij Sabnis
£20,000 Royal Society (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025)
Ocado (S&E Flexible Match-funded PhD Studentship)Kaspar Althoefer
£75,000 Ocado Innovation Ltd (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2027)
Reinforcing piping structures using eversion robotics - Mohammed Al-DubooniKaspar Althoefer
£5,000 UKAEA UK Atomic Energy Authority (01-10-2024 - 31-03-2025)
LSIMPACT: Life-like Resilient Materials for Mitigating Liquid-Solid Impact DamageWei Tan
£1,270,404 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-08-2024 - 31-07-2029)
H2 Store: UK-Australia Renewable Hydrogen Innovation Partnership ProgrammeTao Liu and Han Zhang
£128,750 Innovate UK (01-07-2024 - 31-03-2026)
Multi-sensor Eversion Robot Towards Intelligent Endoscopic Microsurgery - ERC SyG 2023 AlthoeferKaspar Althoefer and Mohamed Thaha
£1,791,893 EU Commission - Horizon Europe (01-07-2024 - 30-06-2030)
EMPreSS: Enhanced Methane Monitoring Precision for a Multi-Agent UAV System SolutionPaul Balcombe and Ketao Zhang
£415,038 NERC Natural Environment Research Council (01-06-2024 - 31-05-2027)
The Architecture of PhotosynthesisHaibao Liu
£13,846 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) (01-05-2024 - 30-09-2026)
Data-Driven Surrogate Modelling for Liquid Ammonia Direct Injection Spray CharacteristicsAmin Paykani
£171,122 Royal Society (31-03-2024 - 28-02-2027)
Distributed wind energy for urban and rural requirements, integration and energy conversionEldad Avital
£49,160 British Council (27-03-2024 - 31-03-2025)
(S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2023/24, Commercial, Fully External, Band B, 3Y)Harshad Bhadeshia and Chinnapat Panwisawas
£158,000 Molycop USA LLC (04-02-2024 - 03-02-2027)
DISTorting the Aerospace Manufacturing Boundaries: OPerational Integration of Autonomy on TitaniumChinnapat Panwisawas and Harshad Bhadeshia
£120,000 Innovate UK (01-02-2024 - 31-07-2026)
Vibration-Based Non-Destructive Testing for metal Additive ManufacturingYunpeng Zhu and Chinnapat Panwisawas
£19,695 Dutch Research Council (01-01-2024 - 31-12-2027)
TacOBot: Tactile Robotic Octopus for Underwater Mobility and Exploration - Studentship Mark BromleyLorenzo Jamone
£120,000 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK (02-10-2023 - 31-03-2027)
EPSRC ICASE - Routing and Scheduling Movements at Airports Considering Interdependence and IntermediJun Chen
£34,968 NATS Limited (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027)
Aeroacoustics of Dynamic StallSergey Karabasov and Eldad Avital
£487,827 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-09-2023 - 28-02-2027)
Integrated Human-Augmented Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Platform for Precision ViticultureKetao Zhang and Lei Su
£297,599 Innovate UK (01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026)
Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
£2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028)
Marine mussel plaque-inspired anchorages for floating offshore wind platformsTao Liu
£201,751 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (10-04-2023 - 09-03-2025)
Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) Award - Phase 1Chinnapat Panwisawas
£50,000 Shimane University (01-04-2023 - 31-03-2025)
Decoding the Material Degradation Mechanisms Under High-velocity Liquid-solid Impact LoadingsWei Tan
£70,000 Royal Society (31-03-2023 - 30-03-2025)
Design by additive manufacturing of Innovative nanocomposites for biomedical applicationChinnapat Panwisawas
£12,000 Royal Society (31-03-2023 - 30-03-2025)
International Exchanges 2022-GRANT TRANSFERAmin Paykani
£6,000 Royal Society (31-03-2023 - 30-03-2025)
Non-probabilistic reliability calibration method and error compensation strategy for precision assembly robot based on workspace partitionJun Chen and Michal Weiszer
£11,000 Royal Society (31-03-2023 - 30-03-2025)
Solar-powered VTOL UAS-based Intelligent Sensing/Monitoring Applications of Precision Agriculture (S&E Industry Studentship Model)Hasan Shaheed
£72,964 Uavictor Aerospace Ltd (01-02-2023 - 31-01-2026)
PALPABLE: Multi-sensing tool for Minimally Invasive SurgeryKaspar Althoefer
£566,718 EPSRC - EU Scheme (01-01-2023 - 31-12-2026)
Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and CharacterisationKaspar Althoefer
£122,759 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026)
iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (NDA) - Eversion robots for radiologically constrained environments characterisation and decommissioningKaspar Althoefer
£50,772 Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (19-09-2022 - 18-09-2026)
iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (Airbus) Rich Simulation Driven Design Optimisation: Olivia Sophie Catherine JelksVassili Toropov and Pihua Wen
£37,428 Airbus Defence & Space Ltd (12-09-2022 - 11-09-2026)
EPSRC Sustainable Manufacturing Call - Circular economy elastomer productsJames Busfield
£401,990 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (18-07-2022 - 12-10-2025)
Mechanics and biomimicking of marine mussel plaques-GRANT TRANSFERTao Liu
£165,813 Leverhulme Trust (15-07-2022 - 09-12-2025)
Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) collaborative research project “Next Wing” led by AIRBUS UKVassili Toropov and Tao Liu
£458,219 Innovate UK (01-04-2022 - 31-03-2026)
CELLCOMP: Data-driven Mechanistic Modelling of Scalable Cellular Composites for Crash Energy AbsorptionWei Tan
£392,388 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-01-2022 - 10-04-2025)
Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environmentKaspar Althoefer
£99,076 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK (04-10-2021 - 31-03-2026)
iCASE - Schlumberger 1 - Ageing study: Aaron DuncanJames Busfield
£30,954 Schlumberger Limited (21-09-2021 - 20-09-2025)
Aston Martin F1 - Elastomer Materials Collaboration : Optimisation of Tyre Wear Performance: Student Eathan PlaschkaJames Busfield
£135,655 Aston Martin Formula One Team (20-09-2021 - 31-12-2025)
SRI - Elastomer Materials Collaboration: Evangelos KolioliosJames Busfield
£125,155 Sumitomo Corporation Europe (20-09-2021 - 19-03-2025)
iCASE - Schlumberger 2 - Filler Reinforcement: Kirsty RutherfordJames Busfield
£30,954 Schlumberger Limited (01-04-2021 - 31-03-2025)
EPSRC DTP Mobility 2020Eram Rizvi, Mark Sandler, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns and Jun Chen
£1,705,691 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2020 - 30-04-2028)
iCASE Award Industrial Contribution BTJun Chen and John Drake
£36,000 BT PLC British Telecommunications PLC (01-10-2019 - 30-04-2025)