IMM
Funder: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Duration: -
Studentship
Funder: EC Horizon MCSE
Duration: November 2025 - October 2029
Funder: European Commission
Duration: October 2025 - October 2029
Funder: The Henry Royce Institute
Duration: October 2025 - February 2026
Funder: Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Duration: -
Funder: TWI - The Welding Institute
Duration: -
Studentship extension
Funder: EPSRC Park Royal Net Zero Food Systems
Duration: -
Funder: European Research Council
Duration: -
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: September 2025 - March 2027
Sustainable textiiles
Funder: Broadway Colours / Sebi Ltd
Duration: July 2025 - July 2026
Extrusion processing and development of biodegradable lightweight injection mouldable plastics. Under development are fully home compostable food packaging, e.g. disposable coffee cup lids and masterbatch that can be let down into these applications for injection moulding and for thermoforming of extruded sheets. The funding underwrites 10% including overheads of Prof Fern's support research projects with Sebi (Park Royal IAA) and BWC. This is for research since consultancy projects are funded separately, e.g. testing of graphene enhanced packaging currently also live.
Funder: EIT Higher Education Institutions (HEI) Initiative
Duration: April 2025 - December 2025
Funder: EPSRC Place Based IAA
Duration: February 2025 - January 2026
Utilising agri by-products to develop sustainable materials materials
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: January 2025 - December 2028
Funder: Broadway Colours Ltd
Duration: January 2025 - December 2030
Part time PhD student registration and bench fee, development of biodegradable masterbatch
Funder: UK Space Agency
Duration: October 2024 - February 2025
Study to establish foundations for creating a satellite fragmentation model.
Funder: Economic and Social Research Council
Duration: October 2024 - September 2028
Studentship CDA - Ines Buetow Pelaez
Funder: UK Space Agency
Duration: October 2024 - February 2025
Phase 1: Capability towards developing a numerical simulations approach. Specific technical objectives include: - Literature review on existing capabilities catastrophic collision threshold analysis, including numerical and empirical models / approaches. - Development of a range of low fidelity models; - Validation of the model against the high-fidelity models; - Specify the minimum level of modelling details required to obtain predictive results; - Determine size effects in the context of material vs structural response, including the strength change, as function of impactor size; - Determine the stress distribution within the structure and propose recommendations to guide development of appropriate failure criteria; - Through simulation, identify catastrophic impact specific energies as a function of projectile size; - Provide an assessment of the mass and trajectory of any fragments that may be generated during the impact cases of interest to UKSA; - Compare results against NASA Standard Satellite Breakup Model (SSBM) to better understand the influence of debris cloud formation and properties, resulting from collisions with limited information, to guide design recommendations to improve predictions of future collisions. for the breakup of a complete satellite to help define Catastrophic Collision Threshold.
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: October 2024 - February 2025
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: October 2024 - March 2025
Extrusion of recycled plastics using real-time in-situ ultrasonic senor
Funder: Innovation Voucher and Peak to Peak
Duration: August 2024 - July 2025
In-situ ultrasonic extrusion sensor for melt flow monitoring also had Innovate UK project and in pre-award for Eureka project
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: June 2024 - December 2025
Standardistation of bio-processing derived pigments
Funder: The Royal Society
Duration: March 2024 - August 2026
Funder: Innovate UK (Horizon Europe Guarantee)
Duration: February 2024 - January 2026
Fellowship
Funder: Innovation voucher and Biomr
Duration: February 2024 - March 2024
Development of water repellant coating
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: January 2024 - June 2027
Sustainable pigment development - follow-on from Prof Fern DR&D projects with DJ
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: December 2023 - May 2024
Funder: IAA and Broadway Colours Ltd
Duration: November 2023 - March 2024
Use of endothermic foaming agents by injection moulding - led to new Research, consultancy and PhD projects
Funder:
Duration: October 2023 - March 2027
Funder: Innovation Voucher with Planet Smart
Duration: October 2023 - January 2024
Synthesis of Super Absorbent polymer
Funder: IAA and Emnandi Bioplastics
Duration: July 2023 - November 2023
Development of water barrier compostable films
Funder: Renishaw plc
Duration: -
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: May 2023 - April 2024
Development of the use of recycled homeware products using 100% recycled polymer and manufactured in the UK
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: April 2023 - March 2024
Decontamination of land and recovery of valuable metals
Funder: IAA
Duration: February 2023 - July 2023
CEM microwave and vacuum stack for extruder
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: January 2023 - January 2026
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Duration: January 2023 - December 2025
Funder: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Duration: January 2023 - December 2026
ReCharged is a transformative project that has the vision to develop a new integrated framework toward a practical visualisation platform in order to optimise and streamline climate resilience and whole-life carbon emission assessments for interdependent Transport and Energy Systems, Lifelines and Assets (iTESLA). To achieve this, ReCharged harnesses the power of digital technologies and data to quantify the functionality and recovery of iTESLA after hazards. This is in response to the lack of methods of assessment and communicable visualisations of consolidated climate resilience and whole-life carbon emission metrics for iTESLA. ReCharged will account for interdependencies that lead to failure propagation in transport and energy systems, to accelerate post-hazard recovery, mitigate losses and societal ramifications due to climate change. In doing so, ReCharged underpins synergies and participatory decision-making to combat siloed thinking in infrastructure management. This project will lead to 50% faster decision-making in iTESLA management, 50% reduction of carbon emissions for the two case studies analysed, create new jobs, and make Europeans fit for the Digital Age. ReCharged is a synergy that combines the exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge and tailored training of staff, through an alliance between leading academic institutions, industrial partners, SMEs, and a research and technology center. All beneficiaries are committed to exploiting and transferring their skills and knowledge, to incentivise data-driven resilience toward climate adaptation and reduce emissions in critical infrastructure. ReCharged will augment researchers' skills and career perspectives, create a community of practitioners, improve critical infrastructure, and ultimately make people feel safer
Funder: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
Duration: January 2023 - December 2026
Biomimicry and carbon adsorbent eco-materials for a climate-neutral economy
Funder: British Council
Duration: January 2023 - December 2025
The Wohl Clean Growth Alliance Grants
Funder: Innovation Voucher with Post Carbon Lab
Duration: January 2023 - January 2023
Developed long term relationship, sub-contract and IUK project and registered PhD student