Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering that are of particular relevance:
- ICURe Programme: Sodium Soli State Battery Market Exploration
Isaac Abrahams and Patrick Cullen
£35,000 Innovate UK
07-01-2025 - 31-03-2025 - EPSRC Core Equipment 2024
Wen Wang, Kshitij Sabnis, Andrei Sapelkin, Joe Briscoe and Ian Sanders
£449,082 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-01-2025 - 30-06-2026 - INCREDIBLE: next-generatIoN Cancer phototheRapy basED on bIometaBolised textiLes integarated with NIR-absorbing π-conjugated organic sEmiconductors
Zhe Li
£11,900 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - Industry Fellowship: Revolutionizing fuel and electrolysis cell production for NET-Zero: Sustainable, Efficient, and Rapid ceramics processing (Acronym: SER)
Salvatore Grasso
£157,805 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2028 - Pyrolysis, ignition and burning of multilayer photovoltaic modules
Roberto Volpe
£12,000 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - Rep-PPV MSCA PF 2023 Li/Igbari
Zhe Li
£206,086 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - Fugitive, Vented and Unburned Methane Emissions from Ships Part 2 (FUMES 2)
Paul Balcombe
£636,740 INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC.
10-12-2024 - 09-12-2026 - Parallel solvers for voxel-dominant meshes for the Boltzmann Transport Equation
Andrew Buchan
£10,000 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
01-11-2024 - 31-03-2025 - (S&E QM Matched Funded PhD Studentship, Commercial, 2024/25, Non-Lab based, Band C, 4 Year) Solutions for Carbon Capture and Storage: Quadrupolar Solvency and Association
Radomir Slavchov
£102,891 SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
01-10-2024 - 31-01-2029 - Enabling real-time and ultra-sensitive measurement of photo(electro)chemical reaction products through Photoelectrochemical Mass-Spectrometry
Flurin Eisner
£19,932 Royal Society
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025 - Nigeria Methane Baseline Scoping Study
Paul Balcombe
£75,523 UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme
01-10-2024 - 31-03-2025 - Aqualunar Challenge
Edo Boek and Stoyan Smoukov
£28,439 Challenge Works
01-08-2024 - 31-03-2025 - H2 Store: UK-Australia Renewable Hydrogen Innovation Partnership Programme
Tao Liu and Han Zhang
£128,750 Innovate UK
01-07-2024 - 31-03-2026 - EMPreSS: Enhanced Methane Monitoring Precision for a Multi-Agent UAV System Solution
Paul Balcombe and Ketao Zhang
£415,038 NERC Natural Environment Research Council
01-06-2024 - 31-05-2027 - Multifunctional High Entropy Carbide and Boride Ceramic Composites: Compositional Space, Novel Synthesis, and Property Tailoring
Michael Reece
£523,977 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
22-04-2024 - 21-04-2027 - UNEP OGMP developing level 4/5 measurement strategies
Paul Balcombe
£119,782 UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025 - International Exchanges 2023: Bacterial nanocellulose -based polymer composites as solid polymer electrolyte for metal ion-batteries
Ana Sobrido
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026 - Understanding The Evolution of Na-ion Battery Interfaces Through Operando Electrochemical surface-enhanced
Maria Crespo-Ribadeneyra
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026 - RS Research Grant 2024 Round 1: Designing electrochemical interfaces for ultradurable sodium-ion batteries
Maria Crespo-Ribadeneyra
£69,832 Royal Society
01-03-2024 - 28-02-2025 - Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-On
Lei Su, Oliver Fenwick, Colin Crick and Stoichko Dimitrov
£941,955 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-03-2024 - 28-02-2027 - (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 - Prevention of phase-separation of corrosive aqueous acidic solution out of liquid carbon dioxide - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentship
Radomir Slavchov
£79,541 CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
02-02-2024 - 01-02-2027 - (RECYCLENS) Enhancing Confidence in the Use of Recycled Polymers and Composites via Electrical Sensing
Han Zhang
£49,996 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-02-2024 - 31-01-2026 - DISTorting the Aerospace Manufacturing Boundaries: OPerational Integration of Autonomy on Titanium
Chinnapat Panwisawas and Harshad Bhadeshia
£120,000 Innovate UK
01-02-2024 - 31-07-2026 - EPSRC ICASE - Textile derived carbon electrodes in redox flow batteries
Ana Sobrido
£34,968 Schlumberger Limited
18-01-2024 - 18-01-2028 - Combined foam fractionation and downflow filtration rig for PFAS removal and destruction
Edo Boek
£10,000 Mineral Technologies Inc
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2025 - Meet Future Needs of Antenna Measurements and RF Characterization for Changing Research Culture
Max Ovidio Munoz Torrico, Akram Alomainy and Andrew Livingston
£816,763 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026 - HIPES MSCA PF 2022: Yan/Banerjee
Haixue Yan
£187,096 EPSRC - EU Scheme
02-11-2023 - 01-11-2025 - Material, process and development of a novel composite, layered, plastic-free leather alternative derived from waste brewery grain
Dimitrios Papageorgiou
£184,150 Innovate UK
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2025 - Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversion
Christian Nielsen and Andrew Livingston
£62,500 CDT Cambridge Display Technology Limited
01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027 - Utilisation of Synthetic Fuels for “Difficult-to-Decarbonise” Propulsion
Xi Jiang, Nader Karimi and Edo Boek
£436,930 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-08-2023 - 31-07-2026 - (EPSRC Fellowship) From 2D to 4D: correlative imaging and modelling for next-generation automotive l-GRANT TRANSFER
Xuekun Lu
£448,598 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2023 - 30-06-2026 - Maximising Efficiency of Liquid Phase Oligo Synthesis
Andrew Livingston
£636,789 Innovate UK
01-06-2023 - 31-05-2025 - High Performance Thermoelectric Film with Organic-Inorganic Van der Waals Heterostructures
Oliver Fenwick
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2023 - 30-03-2025 - International Exchanges 2022-GRANT TRANSFER
Amin Paykani
£6,000 Royal Society
31-03-2023 - 30-03-2025 - Membrane Separation in API Manufacture – Scoping and Performance Prediction (UKRI DTP CASE)
Andrew Livingston
£31,500 AZ AstraZeneca UK Limited
01-01-2023 - 30-06-2026 - Wearable ultrasound sensor for vascular access home monitoring
Lei Su and Haixue Yan
£25,000 Kidney Research UK
01-01-2023 - 31-08-2025 - Advanced Intelligent Control for Building Management System - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentship
Huasheng Wang and Guang Li
£97,420 Carbon Numbers Ltd
01-10-2022 - 31-03-2026 - Energy filtering for high Seebeck voltages in ordered nanocomposites
Oliver Fenwick
£99,985 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025 - SEMS: PhD studentship from Qinetiq
Michael Reece
£82,500 Qinetiq
01-10-2022 - 30-06-2026 - Resolving the biomass pyrolysis kinetics via combined synchrotron-based measurements and modelling analysis
Roberto Volpe
£12,000 Royal Society
11-03-2022 - 10-03-2025 - Synthesis of High Selecticity Membranes
Andrew Livingston
£726,224 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-02-2022 - 31-01-2027 - Belgian Research Institute, VITO - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentship
Andrew Livingston
£163,405 VITO NV
06-01-2022 - 05-07-2025 - Paragraf PhD Studentship Contribution (Linked to WT 6349893)
Colin Humphreys
£70,155 Paragraf Paragraf Limited
01-01-2022 - 31-12-2025 - Studentship: Advanced PAEK membranes
Andrew Livingston
£198,113 Evonik Industries AG
01-12-2021 - 30-11-2025 - ESTEEM: Energy efficient and Safe out-of-oven manufacTuring for compositE materials with intEgrated Multifunctionalities
Han Zhang
£395,947 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2021 - 30-09-2025 - Pyroresistive Conductive Polymer Composites for Safe Batteries
Han Zhang
£76,000 LMK Thermosafe
01-10-2021 - 31-03-2025 - Transforming synthetic drug manufacturing: novel processes, methods and tools-GRANT TRANSFER
Andrew Livingston
£150,556 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2021 - 30-09-2025 - Paragraf support fund - Rajveer Singh Rajaura (PhD Stipend Top-Up & Consumables Only)
Colin Humphreys
£33,540 Paragraf Paragraf Limited
01-08-2021 - 31-07-2025 - Transforming synthetic drug manufacturing: novel processes, methods and tools - Grant Transfer
Andrew Livingston
£433,570 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2021 - 30-09-2025 - FErroelectric NanoComposites for Enhanced Solar energy efficiency - ERC CoG 2020 Joe Briscoe
Joe Briscoe
£1,599,922 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-06-2021 - 31-05-2026 - Sustainable Electrodes for Advanced Flow Batteries
Ana Sobrido
£1,163,370 MRC Medical Research Council
01-02-2021 - 31-01-2026