Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering 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)
INCREDIBLE: next-generatIoN Cancer phototheRapy basED on bIometaBolised textiLes integarated with NIR-absorbing π-conjugated organic sEmiconductorsZhe 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 modulesRoberto Volpe
£12,000 Royal Society (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 EquationAndrew 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 AssociationRadomir 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-SpectrometryFlurin Eisner
£19,932 Royal Society (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025)
Nigeria Methane Baseline Scoping StudyPaul Balcombe
£75,523 UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme (01-10-2024 - 31-03-2025)
H2 Store: UK-Australia Renewable Hydrogen Innovation Partnership ProgrammeTao 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 SolutionPaul 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 TailoringMichael Reece
£523,977 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (22-04-2024 - 21-04-2027)
UNEP OGMP developing level 4/5 measurement strategiesPaul 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-batteriesAna Sobrido
£12,000 Royal Society (31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026)
Understanding The Evolution of Na-ion Battery Interfaces Through Operando Electrochemical surface-enhancedMaria 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 batteriesMaria Crespo-Ribadeneyra
£69,832 Royal Society (01-03-2024 - 28-02-2025)
Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-OnLei 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 studentshipRadomir 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 SensingHan 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 TitaniumChinnapat Panwisawas and Harshad Bhadeshia
£120,000 Innovate UK (01-02-2024 - 31-07-2026)
EPSRC ICASE - Textile derived carbon electrodes in redox flow batteriesAna Sobrido
£34,968 Schlumberger Limited (18-01-2024 - 18-01-2028)
Combined foam fractionation and downflow filtration rig for PFAS removal and destructionEdo Boek
£10,000 Mineral Technologies Inc (01-01-2024 - 31-12-2025)
Meet Future Needs of Antenna Measurements and RF Characterization for Changing Research CultureMax Ovidio Munoz Torrico, Akram Alomainy and Andrew Livingston
£816,763 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026)
Material, process and development of a novel composite, layered, plastic-free leather alternative derived from waste brewery grainDimitrios Papageorgiou
£184,150 Innovate UK (01-10-2023 - 30-09-2025)
Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversionChristian 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” PropulsionXi 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 TRANSFERXuekun Lu
£448,598 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-07-2023 - 30-06-2026)
Maximising Efficiency of Liquid Phase Oligo SynthesisAndrew Livingston
£636,789 Innovate UK (01-06-2023 - 31-05-2025)
High Performance Thermoelectric Film with Organic-Inorganic Van der Waals HeterostructuresOliver Fenwick
£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)
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)
Advanced Intelligent Control for Building Management System - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentshipHuasheng Wang and Guang Li
£97,420 Carbon Numbers Ltd (01-10-2022 - 31-03-2026)
Energy filtering for high Seebeck voltages in ordered nanocompositesOliver Fenwick
£99,985 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK (01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025)
Resolving the biomass pyrolysis kinetics via combined synchrotron-based measurements and modelling analysisRoberto Volpe
£12,000 Royal Society (11-03-2022 - 10-03-2025)
Synthesis of High Selecticity MembranesAndrew Livingston
£726,224 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-02-2022 - 31-01-2027)
Belgian Research Institute, VITO - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentshipAndrew 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 membranesAndrew 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 MultifunctionalitiesHan Zhang
£395,947 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-10-2021 - 30-09-2025)
Pyroresistive Conductive Polymer Composites for Safe BatteriesHan Zhang
£76,000 LMK Thermosafe (01-10-2021 - 31-03-2025)
Transforming synthetic drug manufacturing: novel processes, methods and tools-GRANT TRANSFERAndrew 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 TransferAndrew 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 BriscoeJoe Briscoe
£1,599,922 EU Commission - Horizon 2020 (01-06-2021 - 31-05-2026)
Sustainable Electrodes for Advanced Flow BatteriesAna Sobrido
£1,163,370 MRC Medical Research Council (01-02-2021 - 31-01-2026)