College of Science & Engineering

• Affar Karimullah (PI), Malcolm Kadowala , School of Chemistry, in collaboration with De La Rue - £49,953
  Chiral Metasurface Driven Optical Variable Devices
• Andrew Feeney (PI), Sandy Cochran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with MeterTech Ltd., CeramTec and Scottish Enterprise - £38,980
  Development of an ultrasonic sensor for hydrogen metering applications
• Dave Adams (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Bio-Sep Ltd, IBioIC and Futamura - £43,778
  Improving the sustainability of resins and films with natural lignin derived from biomass residues
• Emily Draper (PI), Dave Adams, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Eastman Chemical Company and NSG Group - £53,396
  Electrochromic Polymer Films
• Mahmoud Wagih (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £38,088
  RF-PowerEd Maintenance-Free SensIng in ENergy-Deprived EnviRonments (REMINDER)
• Marion Hersh (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £50,000
  Older Autistic’s Kit – Sustainability
• Nikolaj Gadegaard (PI), Badri Aekbote, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with AstraZenica and Clyde Biosciences - £46,198
  ForceBiology: software development and real-world benchmarking
• Richard McCreadie (PI), School of Computing Science, in collaboration with Findexable and National Bank of Greece - £29,000
  FAR-Market: Exploration of the Technology Frontier in Financial Asset Recommendation
• 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
  Showcase of the 6G test capabilities at the University of Glasgow (SOUL)
• 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
  A first in-silico trial of quantifying the drug effects of SGLT2i in heart failure
• 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
  Augmented Reality for Trans-Disciplinary Design of ReconFigurable Manufacturing Systems (ARTIFY)
• Peter Skabara (PI), Oleksandr Kanibolotskyy, School of Chemistry in collaboration with GW Associates and Plessey Semiconductors Ltd  - £47,044
  Stability test product development
• Awais Aziz Shah (PI), Lito Michala, School of Computing Science in collaboration with Alba Orbital - £30,855
  Containerisation-Based Image Recognition Algorithms in CubeSats for Autonomous Surveillance of Geographical Locations (ORBICULAR)
• 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
  Controlled Agriculture Lab Using Minewater (CALUM)

• Deborah McNeil, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences: Innovation Engagement & Enterprise - £5,000
  Glasgow Science Festival
• 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
• Cross Sector Knowledge Exchange Event 2023 with National Centre for Resilience
• Sakineh Fotouhi (PI), Sandy Cochran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with CeramTec - £5,000
• Obtaining full set of properties for piezoelectric materials using a novel characterisation tool
• Dave Pollock, College of Science and Engineering Office, Qammer Abassi, James Watt School of Engineering - £1,800
  Support for Future Wireless Outreach and Showcase Event
• Douglas Morrison (PI), Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, in collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific - £4,150
  Isotopes in Healthcare Technologies
• Steffan Gwyn, College of Science and Engineering Office - £2,120
  QT Comic Books in collaboration with Flexpress
• Kirsty Annand (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Photonics Scotland, IoP Scotland and KTN - £4,710
  Opening Up Photonics
• William Pevler (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Acetum S.p.A - £720
  Spontaneous gold nanoparticle formation to test woodaged food and drink products
• Massimo Vassalli (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Associazione POIC e dintorni APS - £5,000
  Stoma Bag Noise Reduction
• 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
  Scottish Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association Membership
• 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
  Greening the Grey: from 3D design (TRL5) to ecoformliner manufacturing (TRL 6) to concrete manufacture (TRL6) and installation in an operational environment (TRL7)
• Ola Popoola (PI), Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Aidrivers LTD - £4,980
  5G Vehicle Integrated Simulation and Teleoperation Applications (5G VISTA)
• Anne-Mari Gillespie, Dave Pollock, David Hughes, College of Science and Engineering Office - £2,216
  University of Glasgow Exhibit Stand at All Energy 2023
• Wenjuan Song (PI) Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami, James Watt School of Engineering - £2,700
  Impact acceleration via Emissions Free Air Transport through Superconductivity (EFATS) 2023 Workshop
• Akhil Kallepalli (PI), Graham Gibson, Robert Archibald, School of Physics & Astronomy - £2,000
  Demonstration of MobileModMicro at Microscience Microscopy Congress Exhibition 2023
• Akhil Kallepalli (PI), Graham Gibson, Robert Archibald, School of Physics & Astronomy - £1,200
  MobileModMicro – 3D printed microscope and modular light sources demonstrator kit
• Dave Pollock, Anne-Mari Gillespie, College of Science and Engineering - £2,000
  ADS Sustainable Aviation Event (Oct 2023)
• Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with United Nations ITU-T - £1,250
  ITU-T Standardisation Meeting and Workshop
• Hadi Heidari (PI), Linsey Robertson, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with ARM, Semitronics, Pragmatic Semiconductor Ltd and Printed Electronics Ltd - £10,000
  Dielectrophoretic roll system for high performance electronics using contactless selective assembly of nanostructures on large areas (ANALOG)
• Ross Forgan (PI), Linsey Robertson, School of Chemistry - £10,000
  An Electron Diffractometer for Nanomaterial Structure Characterisation
• Mon Kyaw (PI), Aye Su, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with Quantum Science Ltd - £4,900
  Colloidal Quantum Dots for SWIR Sensor Integration, packaging, and Reliability Evaluation
• Guodong Zhao (PI), Burak Kizilkaya, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with RACE, UK and Atomic Energy Authority - £4,523
  Robotics Demonstration for Nuclear Industry
• Naveen Kumar (PI), Vihar Georgiev, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and Vienna University of Technology - £4,434
  Development boost for the Device Modelling group open-source Biomolecule-Oxide Simulator
• 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
  European Semiconductor Laser Workshop industry reception
• 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
  A Virtual Environment for Bespoke 3D Orthopaedic Trauma Surgical Planning

• Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig (PI), School of Computing Science, in collaboration with National Bank of Greece - £17,586
  PPC-FI: Personalized Portfolio Construction for Financial Investments
• Gilles Baillet (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Katie Tubbing - £2,500
  Smart connected fabric for public engagement and Arts
• Gang Li (PI), School of Psychology & Neuroscience, Katharina Pohlmann, School of Computing Science, in collaboration with SyncVR and Royal Society of Edinburgh - £20,000
  Partnership Development: Validation of Virtual Reality Motion Sickness Mitigation Technologies in Real World Settings
• Simon Mekhail (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, in collaboration with Auckland Bioengineering Institute - £19,979
  3D Arthroscopy
• 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
  High-speed optical mapping platform for assessing cardiotoxicity
• Tania Wallis (PI), School of Computing Science, in collaboration with National Cyber Security Centre - £18,000
  Impact Acceleration in Cybersecurity of Supply Chains to Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)
• Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig (PI), School of Computing Science - £11,601
  FAR-AI: Deployment of AI-based Financial Asset Recommendation System
• 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
  Designing an interactive Greenspace dashboard for stakeholders using mobile phone app data
• 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
  Optical Stethoscope-based Vital Signal Monitoring using Neuromorphic

• Neil Findlay, Ana Basiri, College of Science and Engineering Office, in collaboration with Alan Turing Institute - £10,000
  Matched funding for Turing Network Development Award:
  • 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
• Connor Blair (PI), George Baillie, School of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health - £50,000
  Lead optimisation of an allosteric c-RAF inhibitor peptide for the treatment of KRAS-driven pancreatic cancer
• Claire Wilson (PI), School of Chemistry - £146,000
  Chemistry SPR Equipment Requirement - Portable mass spectrometer for thermal analysis, Cryostream, 500 MHz nmr repair
• Darian Brookes, Research & Innovation Services, in collaboration with Findexable, Cambridge Consultants, Steve Holmes, Strategic Scientific Consulting, David Nugent and CRSI - £163,500
  EPSRC IAA spend by end-March 2023 to support commercialisation
• Huabing Yin, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Epigem Limited - £82,800
  Equipment to support current IAA/innovateUK activities
• Julien Reboud (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £12,230
  Rapid, low-cost molecular tests for infectious disease detection in farms - Kinematic laminator
• Margaret Lucas (PI), Rebecca Cleary, James Watt School of Engineering, £6,500
  Ultrasonic transducer analysers
• Massimo Vassalli, James Watt School of Engineering - £42,599
  Rheometer
• Nigel Mottram, School of Mathematics & Statistics - £14,400
  2 x Comsol commercial licenses plus microfluidics module for work with Envisics and Merck
• Guodong Zhao (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £25,000
  Market Exploitation of Software-Enabled Modular Robotics for Warehouse Industry and Beyond
• Qammer Abbasi (PI), Shuja Ansari, Muhammed Ali Imran, Jalil ur Rehman Kazim, James Watt School of Engineering - £25,000
  AI-enabled Transformation of Space and Asset Management
• 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
  EPSRC Contribution to SFC Quantum Arc

• Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £99,996
  xApp Store
• 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
  Kepsoft Community: A social enterprise for kidney exchange software

• Shuja Ansari (PI), Qammer Abbasi and Muhammed Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Beringar Ltd - £11,217
  Ubiquitous Asset Management Using Hybrid RFID and IoT Technologies
• Alasdair Clark (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, William Peveler, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Spraying Systems Co - £50,076
  Using artificial tastebuds in biomedical technology settings
• Sandy Cochran (PI), Margaret Lucas, James Watt School of Engineering, and Darian Brookes, Research & Innovation Services, in collaboration with Nami Surgical Ltd. - £40,794
  Spin-out Business Plan and Pitch Deck
• Rupam Das (PI), Finlay Walton and Hadi Heidari, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with QV Bioelectronics - £6,197
  Computational Modelling of an MRI-Compatible In-vitro and In-vivo Stimulation System for Brain Cancer Treatment
• Vinny Davies (PI), Jethro Browell, School of Mathematics & Statistics, in collaboration with Nat West - £40,000
  Energy-related Emissions Analytics for Sustainable Finance
• Daniele Faccio (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, Sarah Cook, College of Arts & Humanities, in collaboration with Semiconductor Films Ltd - £40,000
  Tracing Light - ARC Artist Residency
• Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £42,700
  Building communities, the future of academia
• Affar Karimullah (PI), School of Chemistry, Edward Hutchinson, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Malcolm Kadodwala, School of Chemistry, Nikolaj Gadegaard, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Pinpoint Medical Ltd. - £39,118
  Disposable plasmonics assays for monitoring airborne pathogens in commercial air filters
• Craig MacDonald (PI), Sean MacAvaney, School of Computer Science, in collaboration with Opinew - £33,600
  SmartQA: Generating Questions & Answers From Product Reviews for Opinew 
• Sean McGinty (PI), Lauren Hyndman, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Kirkstall - £27,317
  Maximising the impact of the next generation Quasi Vivo advanced cell culture system through the creation of a user guide
• Abhinav Prasad (PI), Karl Toland, School of Physics and Astronomy - £17,136
  Compact Field Prototypes for Wee-g Gravimeter 
• Ola Popoola (PI), Wasim Ahmad, Paul Lynch, Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Softbank Robotics Europe [Part of United Robotics Group (URG) GmbH]; Forth Valley Sensory Centre Trust (FVSC); The Royal National Institute of Blind (RNIB), Scotland; Sight and Sound Technology - £26,557
  RoboGuide: Recruiting and deploying a humanoid robot for assisted indoor navigation and shopping assistant for blind and partially sighted people 
• Cindy Smith (PI), Bill Sloan, Marta Vignola, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Scottish Water - £49,769
  “Biofilter-Build” - building a sustainable drinking water treatment future
• Sofiat Olaosebikan (PI), School of Computer Science - £10,500
  Computer Science Academy Africa (CSA Africa)
• Marian Scott (PI), Claire Miller, Mu Niu, School of Mathematics & Statistics, with SRUC and Censis - £25,300
  Development of a framework and principles for environmental sensor network design 
• Peter Skabara (PI), Oleksandr Kanibolotskyy, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with GW Associates - £50,000
  Synthesis of organic materials for downconverters
• Oliver Stoner (PI), School of Maths & Statistics, in collaboration with WHO - £24,220
  Worldwide use of polluting fuels for household heating and lighting for Sustainable Development Goal 7 - Phase 1 
• Oliver Stoner (PI), School of Maths & Statistics, in collaboration with WHO - £29,467
  Worldwide use of polluting fuels for household heating and lighting for Sustainable Development Goal 7 - Phase 2 
• Andrew Sutherland, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Adriana Tavares (University of Edinburgh) and Life Molecular Imaging - £23,471
  Early-Stage Clinical Development of LW223 for Future Commercialisation
• Ahmad Taha (PI), Muhammad Imran, David Flynn, Qammer Abbasi, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Albyn Housing Society Ltd - £33,811
  An Evaluation of Tailored Real Time Energy Services for Comfort, Affordability and Sustainability in Scottish Social Housing 
• Huabing Yin (PI), Julien Reboud, Jon Cooper, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Epigem Limited - £50,000
  Clinical validation and exploitation for rapid pathogen diagnosis platforms
• Ahmed Zoha (PI), Masood Nizami, Muhammad Ali Jamshed, Muhammad Ali Imran, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Briteyellow - £18,626
  Energy COnscious Network for Independent Living (COIL)

• Matt Dalby (PI), College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Michelle Carmichael, College of Science & Engineering: College Academic & Student Administration, in collaboration with Tissue and Cell Engineering Society, World Precision Technologies, Veolia Water Technologies, Sphere Fluidics, Jellagen, Swift Analytical, N8, Don Whitley Scientific, PHC Europe, Cell Guidance Systems, Cellink, Zimmer Peacock, Pepro Tech and OP11 - £3,000
  Joint CDT and TCES Conference - Future Leaders in Regenerative Medicine
• Oana Dobre (PI), Giuseppe Ciccone, Massimo Vassalli and Delphine Gordon, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with University of Sydney - £3,940
  Alliance for Mechanobiology
• Joy Farnaby (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Sellafield - £2,350
  Addressing technical shortfalls and assessing future end-user needs in the treatment of the UK’s civil plutonium 
• Andy Harvey (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, Tony Kelly, James Watt School of Engineering - £701
  Imaging Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum – An Industrial-Academic Open Space Event in CoSE
• Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £1,240
  Invited Talk and Panel Session at NetworkX Industrial Conference 
• Paul Harvey (PI), James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with UN ITU-T - £2,360
  ITU-T Standardisation Meeting and Workshop 
• Akhil Kallepalli (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy, in collaboration with QuantIC and CENSIS - £4,931
  HyperMeasure: Measuring anatomical geometry using light
• Lyuda Kanibolotska (PI), Oleksandr Kanibolotskyy, Pete Skabara, School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Britest Ltd - £3,000
  Synthesis of organic materials for downconvertors 
• Lyuda Kanibolotska (PI), School of Chemistry - £1,440
  Online programme - Prepare to Launch a Career Outside of Academia Through Your Own Technology Venture 
• Lynne McCorriston (PI), Science & Engineering College Research Administration, David Flynn, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with ADS - £2,000
  ADS Hydrogen powered aviation event 
• Lynne McCorriston (PI), Science & Engineering College Research Administration - £552
  Banners for robotics and automation event (Scotland Manufacturing and Supply Chain Conference and Exhibition) 
• Taylor Shields (PI), Matteo Clerici, James Watt School of Engineering - £2,500
  Single-cycle THz fields electro-optical sampling with single-photon detectors
• Jack Radford (PI), Valentin Kapitany, Daniele Faccio, School of Physics & Astronomy - £1,238
  MLiS conference 
• Marta Vignola (PI), Cindy Smith, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Federal University of Minas Gerais and COPASA MG - £4,500
  Brazil water treatment visit 
• Finlay Walton (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £2,992
  Prototyping a flexible implantable optogenetic device 
• Guodong Zhao (PI), James Watt School of Engineering - £4,450
  Develop Partnership with Leading Robotics Companies

• Tania Wallis (PI), School of Computer Science, in collaboration with National Cyber Security Centre - £14,167
  Impact Acceleration in Cybersecurity of Supply Chains

• Kimberly Fornace (PI), College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Brian Barrett, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, in collaboration with Health Innovation Laboratory, Peru; IHI, Tanzania and Terraframe, joint project with BBSRC IAA - £40,000
  New tools to identify malaria vector habitats from high resolution Earth Observation data
• Trevor Almeida (PI), School of Physics & Astronomy - £650
  Attendance of Materials Research Exchange, London
• Dhayalan Shakthivel (PI), Ensieh Seyed Hosseini, James Watt School of Engineering - £1,800
  Printed Sensors and Devices for High Performance Flexible Electronics
• Patrick Harkness (PI), Xuan Li, Kevin Worrall, James Watt School of Engineering, in collaboration with Schenck Process, joint project with STFC IAA - £26,570
  The pulse-elevator: a new concept for granular media
• Affar Karimullah (PI), School of Chemistry, in collaboration with Pinpoint Medical Ltd. - £1,787
  Disposable plasmonics assays for monitoring airborne pathogens in commercial air filters (Supplement)
• Darian Brookes (PI), Research & Innovation Services - £50,000
  Entrepreneurship Workshops proposal for IAA Funding

Standard IAA Projects Awards

• Dr Bo Liu (PI), Prof Muhammad Imran, James Watt School of Engineering in collaboration with Rescale Inc - £33,000
  AI-driven antenna design exploration software tool development
• Manlio Tassieri (PI), Manosh Paul, James Watt School of Engineering
  Panta Rhei: Syndet Characterisation and Process Modelling
• Hasan Abbas (PI), Qammer Abassi, James Watt School of Engineering
  Location Tracking System for autonomous monitoring of Bulks of Cereal Grain
• Qammer Abbasi
  An Intelligent Non-Invasive Real-Time Elderly Activity Recognition System for Next-Generation Healthcare
• Alex Turpin
  An in-depth technical and market assessment for EchoSense
• Nigel Mortram
  Ionic and flow effects in LCoS devices
• David Cumming; Vincenzo Pusino
  IndiPiX Technology & Market Assessment
• Martin Llewellyn (PI), Julien Reboud
  In situ eDNA monitoring of planktonic threats to salmon aquaculture using a paper-based PCR device
• David Mahon (PI), Bjoern Seitz, Rick Gray
  A Compact Multi-Radiation Detector for Robotic Pipe Inspection in Nuclear Decommissioning
• Jeff Kettle
  Reliability for sustainable electronics
• Andrew Jamieson
  Keltic Pharma PEP-SMOL Drug Discovery Platform
• Emily Draper (PI), David Adams
  Scale up of Smart Windows
• George Barakos
  Novel blades for electric vertical lift
• Joy Farnaby
  Addressing technical shortfalls and assessing future end-user needs in the treatment of the UK’s civil plutonium
• Jonathan Taylor
  Heartbeat-synchronization-enhanced Aurora microscope
• Massimo Vassalli
  BioGel Micromechanics
• Qammer Abbasi
  RFID-enabled location tracking system for autonomous monitoring of bulks of cereal grain
• Vihar Georgiev, Tapas Dutta, Asen Asenov
  PDK Development for Cryogenic Electronics

• Dr Gozel Shakiri, School of Computing Science
  Envirofy
• Dr Caroline Müllenbroich
  CUWiP- employers and employability: engaging industry in the national Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics
• Prof Nigel Mottram
  Dynamic defects within an LCOS device
• Prof Xiaolei Liu, James Watt School of Engineering
  Training for Condition Monitoring Offshore Wind Turbine through Machine Learning and CFD

• Qammer Abbasi, Muhammed Imran
  Hybrid LoRaWAN and RFID System for Efficient Space Management
• Peter Childs (PI), Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Matt Dalby
  Raising investment for an orthopaedic spin-out
• Emily Draper
  Dark Materials

• Enric Grustan Gutierrez
  NEAT 1
• Kirst Annand
  Opening Up Photonics Workshop
• Sara Diegoli
  The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre @ the Clyde Waterfront Innovation Campus
• Hadi Heidari
  Travel to KTN Materials Research Exchange 2020
• Rair Macedo
  Participating in the Materials Research Exchange (MRE) 2020
• Trevor Almeida
  Attendance of Materials Research Exchange, London
• Dhayalan Shakthivel (PI), Ensieh Seyed Hosseini
  Semiconducting Nanostructures for High Performance Large Area Flexible Electronics and Multi-functional dressing for wound healing/monitoring
• Massimo Vassalli (PI), Manlio Tassieri, Richard P Middlemiss
  Development of next generation tools for single cell nanoindentation measurements

• Scott Watson
  Dynamic testing of single photon avalanche detectors (SPADs) for quantum applications

• Dr Martin Lavery (PI), Prof Anthony Kelly, School of Engineering
  Wide-angle fluorescent optical receiver for high capacity underwater communications (GlowComm) (£28,000)
  Maintenance and monitoring of submersed equipment is a particularly difficult and dangerous component of Oil and Gas Production in deep-water offshore oil fields. In recent years, the utilisation of visible light communications (VLC) has become an emerging technology with the potential to complement and enhance the currently widely implemented ultrasound underwater communication technologies.
  In conjunction with Teledyne Bowtech Ltd., a bespoke optical receiver component will be developed which allows for a dramatic increase in the optical collection efficiency of an already developed underwater communication prototype. This will allow the team to overcome major alignment hurdles that limit the current market size of the prototype.
• Dr Karl Burgess,  MVLS
  Developing the RTMet instrumentation for reliability and robustness (£32,000)
  Batch failure in fermentations is a major cost in industries as diverse as biopharmaceuticals to brewing, and common to any industrial biotechnology process. Current techniques do not provide the detail required to fully understand a bioprocess, or the time-dependent changes in a microorganism’s biochemistry during growth or chemical production. Both the team and their collaborators Ingenza and Thermo Fisher Scientific, want to monitor the culture to allow optimisation of feedstocks, prevent batch loss due to toxin build up, and monitor the performance of strains to guide genetic improvements. The aim of the project is to demonstrate that the prototype sampling system that the team have constructed can be used to couple a high value bioprocess fermentation directly to a high resolution mass spectrometer enabling hundreds of chemical read-outs to be recorded every minute.
• Dr Larissa Naylor, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
  Dynamic Coast Downscaling: coastal assessment of Edinburgh’s Shoreline (£9,000)
  University of Glasgow Dynamic Coast (Scotland’s National Coastal Change Assessment (NCCA)) research anticipates that rises in sea level, coastal erosion and coastal flooding will increasingly affect Scotland’s soft coastlines, presenting risks to property and infrastructure. Dynamic Coast Phase 2 (2018-2019) seeks to enhance the evidence base for adaptation along soft, rural to semi-rural coasts in Scotland but does not currently extend to urban areas. By working alongside Scottish Natural Heritage and Edinburgh Adapts, this project seeks to identify social, natural and built assets locally at risk by downscaling data from Dynamic Coast Phase 2 in a key urban coastal area at risk: the City of Edinburgh.
• Prof Jon Cooper (PI), Dr Arslan Khalid, Dr Julien Reboud, School of Engineering
  iVisco (£40,000)
  A stroke occurs every two seconds, leading to disability or death. The global burden of stroke is predicted to double within 15 years. Despite clinical evidence, blood viscosity is not routinely used as a marker for stroke (or to assess stroke risk), due to the difficulties associated with its measurement, requiring large, expensive and complex equipment. iVisco combines acoustic actuation of a finger-prick sample with non-contact optical analysis to detect clinically-significant viscosity changes down to ±0.1 mPa.s, (~10x the change reported in patients with stroke risk) in <1min. In collaboration with Morgan Innovation and Technology Ltd, this project will finalise a lab-based ‘works-like’ prototype to validate the applicability of the technique in a clinical setting, a key de-risking milestone to unlock substantial investment.
• Dr Amalio Fernández-Pacheco, School of Physics and Astronomy
  3DPRINTIP: 3D-printed magnetic tip sensors (£31,000)
  The objective of this project is to initiate the product development of a new type of 3D-printed magnetic sensors for advanced microscopy of magnetic devices. The project will be developed together with GETec Microscopy GmbH, a young world-leading company in correlative microscopy, which is now expanding their range of activities to magnetic imaging of nanoscale materials.
• Dr Vihar Georgiev (PI), Prof Asen Asenov, School of Engineering
  Nano-Electronic Simulation Software (NESS) - creating the first open source TCAD platform in the world (£36,000)
  Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) tools are crucial for the success of the $380B semiconductor industry that enables the humanity transforming Information Technologies (IT) and the digital economy as a whole. TCAD reduces time to market and the development costs of the contemporary and future Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technologies, the integrated circuits and the corresponding products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktops and processor farms and cloud computing. Working with Semiwise Ltd and Quantum Base Ltd, the team aim to create the first Open Source Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) software platform where the industry and academia can freely collaborate to explore and optimise new devices and materials.
• Prof Sandy Cochran, School of Engineering
  Ultracap Microultrasound Imaging Development (£10,000)
  In collaboration with Envision Design Ltd, this project seeks to assemble a working prototype of a microultrasound imaging cap to fit on existing endoscopes, upgrading them to allow high resolution microultrasound imaging, without impeding their ordinary optical and biopsy functions. This will help in diagnosis of cancer and precancerous conditions in the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the colon, improving early intervention rates.
• Prof Richard Hogg, School of Engineering
  Enhancing Commercial Impact of University of Glasgow MBE (£34,000)
  Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is a semiconductor crystal growth technique used in the production of a wide variety of electronic and opto-electronic devices such as lasers, photodetectors and high-speed transistors. The University of Glasgow has been working in this field for over 30 years and had built up a lab consisting of three MBE machines at the West of Scotland science park growing a wide range of structures. This project sparked a joint venture in III-V epitaxy between the University of Glasgow, Gas Sensing Solutions and Compound Semiconductor Technology Global, developing new epitaxy based products outside of the standard devices and systems typically produced.
• Dr Andrew Jamieson, School of Chemistry
  Practical and Scalable Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-amino Acid Building Blocks (£33,000)
  Amino acids are vital molecular building blocks required by the pharmaceutical and agrichemical industries. Unnatural, non-proteinogenic amino acids are of particular importance to facilitate the synthesis of stable, potent peptide ligands and drugs. Demand for unnatural amino acids compatible with Fmoc/tBu solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) is increasing as more peptides and peptidomimetics reach clinical trials and the market. The objective of this project was to extend this Fmoc amino acid compound library to include new analogues. The team further developed their methodology through automation to facilitate the scalable synthesis of Fmoc amino acids in quantities from grams to kilograms. If successful, the IP associated with these methodology developments will be protected, the new chemistry in high impact academic journals will be reported and the novel Fmoc amino acids will be commercialised in partnership with IRIS Biotech.
• Dr Aleksandra Vuckovic
  Market Validation, Business Plan and Investor Engagement for a Neurotechnology Spin Out (£20,000)
  The team have developed and clinically tested therapeutic and diagnostic software applications based on electroencephalographic (EEG) measurements of brain activity. These IAA funds supported the development of a business plan and investor proposition in order to launch an EEG Neurofeedback spin-out venture. This business will be a software development company that can provide pain prediction and management tools which can be partnered with a range of non-clinical and clinical hardware devices.

• Dr Richard Taylor, School of Engineering
  Photonic crystal surface emitting lasers: Industry engagement (£2,400)
• Dr Craig MacDonald, School of Computing Science
  Towards Fairness and Transparency in Digital Sensitivity Review (£2140)
• Dr Elijah Nazarzadeh, School of Engineering
  Synthetic Cell Workshop (£1000)
• Dr Vihar Georgiev, School of Engineering
  AVS International Symposium and Exhibition (£2250)
• Prof Ravinder Dahiya, School of Engineering
  3D Touch Interactive Hologram (£1600)
• Dr Martin Lavery, School of Engineering
  MarineComm: Workshop on communication technology transfer for Ocean Science (£2100)
• Prof Alice Miller, School of Computing Science
  Optimisation of prediction models for red blood cell demand (£1500)
• Dr Cristina Medina Bailon, School of Engineering
  Development boost for the Device Modelling Group open-source NESS computational framework (£2860)

• Dr Samadhan Patil, School of Engineering
  Multicorder Clinical validation (for myocardial infarction and stroke) (£20,000)
  As part of the multicorder programme, a CMOS based multimetabolite sensing platform was developed, with the capacity to detect 4 metabolite biomarkers simultaneously in real time in less than 2 minutes. As a part of this project, the team will collaborate with clinicians working in the area of ischaemic heart disease and stroke. This will enable the team to work on metabolites that are clinically relevant, and detect these metabolites in clinical samples from patients. This would establish the ability of the developed device for use in clinical samples and will pave a way for the device as a point-of-care diagnostic device through the clinical validation process.
• Dr Adetunmise Charles Dada, School of Engineering
  Daylight quantum key distribution at 2 microns: a field test (BroadDayQComm) (£18,000)
  Satellite-based quantum communication promises to be a feasible way to achieve global-scale quantum-secure networks, addressing the security requirements of the next generation of global communications. A critical challenge preventing the wide-spread usage of space-to-ground quantum key distribution (QKD) is the presence of a strong solar background, blinding the single-photon detectors required to exchange quantum cryptographic keys, and limiting satellite QKD to only night time. This project, in collaboration with Chromacity Ltd. and Covesion Ltd., establishes the conditions in which a free space optical link between University buildings can sustain quantum key distribution in broad daylight.
• Dr Oana Dobre, School of Engineering
  Development of new bioinks for the efficient presentation of the growth factors for tissue engineering applications (£10,500)
  Bioprinting is a precise technology to create complex three-dimensional (3D) tissue structures for biological and clinical applications that incorporates cells, biomaterials and/or bioactive molecules. Depending on the applications, there are different techniques that can be used, but all of them share the same technical challenges, including the lack of biocompatibility and printability of the bioink formulations. Bioinks are very versatile materials with the potential to recreate the complexity of the tissue in-vivo. This IAA funding allowed for a collaboration with CELLINK to combine a proven ultralow dose growth factor presentation and protein-based hydrogel technology, with company expertise in the formulation, development and testing of universally printable bioinks.
• Dr Yusuf Sambo, School of Engineering
  Application of Advanced Cooling Technology To High Integrity 5G Communication Systems (£11,750)
  There has been a tremendous evolution in mobile communications over the past few decades driven by the quest for high data rates and multimedia services, leading to the 5th generation of mobile networks (5G). 5G will rely on ultra-dense deployment of small cells by bringing the network closer to users in order to meet its ambitious KPI targets. However, network densification will result in a substantial increase in the energy consumption and carbon emissions of 5G networks, which would have a significant effect on the economic and environmental sustainability of mobile communications. The Communications, Sensing and Imaging group (CSI), in collaboration with TCS, aimed to test and implement a use case for the revolutionary TEC system developed by TCS and evaluate its performance in a real network deployment scenario.

• Dr Jonathan Siviter, Prof Andrew Knox, School of Engineering
  High Efficiency Cooling for Data Centres (£16,600)
  Data-centre power-density has increased 200% in the last 4years due to rising data-processing, analysis and storage demand. With 40% of data centre energy consumption required for cooling electronics equipment, there is a need for the data centre cooling market to move to greener, cleaner and cheaper cooling regimes as expansion is forecast to continue for the next 5 years. Thermoelectric Conversion Systems Ltd proposes a scalable clean technology business to fill the void in present cooling technologies and aims to target data centre equipment suppliers to develop highly efficient industry leading technology.
• Prof David Ireland, School of Physics and Astronomy
  Mobile Muon Tomography (£33,000)
  The objective of this project is the development and construction of a small-scale prototype for a Mobile Muon Tomography System. This development will feed into large-scale funding applications by Lynkeos Technology and the Glasgow Nuclear Physics Group, which in turn will lead to a new commercial product for Lynkeos Technology, a University spin-off company, who have  successfully developed Muon Tomography for nuclear waste containers since 2009. The first deployment of a Lynkeos Muon Imaging System on a UK nuclear site is funded through a £1.6 million Innovate UK contract and is scheduled for March 2018.
• Dr Matthew Smith, School of Engineering
  Dual-mode transistor for digital logic (£25,500)
  This project, with the support of Semiwise Ltd., will create a prototype transistor design to demonstrate previously developed dual-mode transistor technology, on which the University has filed a patent application. The generation of a device design with the outstanding simulated performance within the context of practical considerations (including compatibility with existing circuits/systems, especially CMOS, and to a lesser extent manufacturing infrastructure) will render the technology ready for prototyping and more visible to potential industrial sources of investment. This will position the technology for investment to develop first generation devices for real-world testing.
• Prof Richard Hogg (PI), Dr David Childs, Dr Richard Taylor, School of Engineering
  Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELs) - Enhanced Performance All Electronic Beam Steering and Coherent Arrays Prototype Chips
  In partnership with Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd., this project seeks to facilitate the commercial exploitation of photonic crystal surface emitting laser (PCSELs) technology developed by Prof. Hogg, Dr. Childs and Dr. Taylor. Specifically, PCSELs allow conventional semiconductor lasers to be modified such that they become surface emitting. This not only reduces in-process test costs but provides superior laser characteristics such as beam quality and output power.
• Prof Lee Cronin (PI), Dr Mark Symes, School of Chemistry
  Development of a new battery and refuelling system for electric vehicles
  Working with ASTREA Power Limited on a de-risking project for a technology that will make electric vehicles practical in the mass market through a breakthrough in flow battery technology.
• Prof Sandy Cochran, School of Engineering
  Sonopill (£18,000)
  The Sonopill programme works to add microultrasound and other modalities to capsule endoscopes, to improve detection of diseases. For example, bowel cancer is the third most common cancer with 41,000 diagnoses in the UK and 149,000 in the USA annually. It is believed that microultrasound can detect cancer forming in the bowel wall before it is visible to the eye. In collaboration with Evolution Bioscience, this project aimed to map out the market, identify key IP, and produce a commercialisation roadmap for any resulting product.
• Prof Stephen Brewster, Prof Jonathan Evans, Dr Matther Jamieson, School of Computing Science, School of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences
  Developing ApplTree; Personalized digital reminding to support memory impairment after brain-injury (£32,000)
  Brain injury is a leading cause of disability in Scotland. People with acquired brain injury (ABI) often experience memory difficulties that smartphone reminding apps could help overcome. ApplTree has been designed with features that our research shows can support independent use and increase the efficacy of prompting technology. With demand from the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) to use the ApplTree app in their nationwide rehabilitation services, SwarmOnline aided the team in the creation a stable and functional version of ApplTree to make it widely available to people with ABI via the AppStore.
• Dr Andrew Sutherland, School of Chemistry
  Early Stage Commercialisation of a PET Imaging Agent for the Detection of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer (£29,000)
  This project focuses on the development of a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent that could be used for the diagnosis of a wide range of diseases associated with inflammation (dementia, brain cancer, stroke and cardiovascular disease). PET imaging agents are widely used throughout the health industry and by pharmaceutical companies for the diagnosis of disease, the subsequent planning of treatment in patients and in the drug discovery process.
• Dr Emily Draper, School of Chemistry
  Analysing HA production for ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (£28,000)
  Working with Hyaltech Ltd. to characterise and understand the properties of a number of multi-component gel-based materials, with a focus on hyaluronic acid based substances.
• Dr Hadi Heidari, School of Engineering
  Autonomous Power Harvesting and Conversion for Future Driverless Vehicles (£25,000)
  In this project, the team at Glasgow University and West Coast Semi Design Ltd. aim to develop a novel, robust and ultra-low power harvesting and conversion system for future autonomous cars. Existing technologies for autonomous cars and electric vehicles (EV) suffer from driving range limitation and long battery charging time. Therefore, an ultra-low power harvesting and conversion system for future autonomous cars is needed. In this proposal, a novel DC-DC converter will merge a photovoltaic (PV) panel, a fuel cell, and a battery and connect them to the grid which enhance the gain and efficiency compared to conventional converters.
• Prof Adrian Bowman, Dr Liberty Vittert, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Automatic assessment of facial surgery in the developing world (£31,000)
  Approximately 170,000 children are born in the developing world each year with cleft lip/palate, a surgically treatable facial deformity that impairs health and prospects for survival. Smile Train is an international NGO committed to training local medical professionals to provide safe, high-quality, comprehensive treatment for children with this condition from poverty-challenged backgrounds. This pilot project aims to assess the potential for the new tools to re-define the standard of care by monitoring the surgeries in an objective and efficient manner.
• Prof Margaret Lucas, School of Engineering
  An ultrasonic device for the surgical treatment of the Petrous Apex (and other challenging biopsy applications)
  This project will develop the capability of an ultrasonic bone biopsy needle device for the surgical treatment of the petrous apex. Working in collaboration with a Consultant ENT and Skull Base Surgeon, from NHS GGC, alongside the NHS Medical Devices Unit and Ethicon, the aim is to transform the recovery of biopsy samples from the petrous apex. The very significant advantage offered by an ultrasonic device is that it removes the requirement for the clinician to apply high force and torque – with the ultrasonic devices requiring a very low force, just sufficient to physically couple the device to the bone and make forward progress of the needle. This offers potential for increased precision, reduced sample damage, reduced injury to surrounding tissue, improved patient outcomes and, importantly, improved diagnosis.
• Dr Craig MacDonald (PI), Prof Iadh Ounis, School of Computing Science
  Application of Machine Learning in the CICERO project (£32,000)
  Historical government records must be sensitivity reviewed by an experienced sensitivity reviewer before they are released to the archives. The historical UK government records currently being reviewed are transitioning from those curated in paper files towards born-digital material. There are currently no commercially available solutions for digital sensitivity review. This project aims to trial developed machine learning technologies for sensitivity review along the CICERO platform within the FCO setting. This encompasses a partial secondment to SVGC IT consultancy, and accessing classified documents held on SVGC servers located within the FCO.

• Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Dr Andres Alba Perez, School of Engineering
  Industry day – In vitro models for pharma and biomedical R&D (£3,000)
  A one-day industry engagement event to support ongoing activity and foster new relationships around the broad theme of in vitro tissue models for pharma and biomedical R&D.
• Dr Richard Taylor, School of Engineering
  Industrial Engagement and Kickstart awards attendance (£355) and Photonic crystal surface emitting lasers: Specification generation and Industrial Engagement (£3,000)
  Supporting customer meetings, specification generation, and industrial engagement relating to the commercialisation of photonic crystal surface emitting laser technology.
• Prof Iain Thayne, School of Engineering
  A UK Micro- and Nano-fabrication Community Event (£2,960)
  The James Watt Nanofabrication Centre is exploring the possibility of establishing a UK research facility in the area of micro- and nano-fabrication. Feedback from EPSRC, one obvious stakeholder in such an entity, is that a key aspect to any bid of this type is demonstration of community need. These funds were to hold a 1 day community event to confirm the desire and need of the UK academic and industrial sectors to move forward with the proposition.
• Dr Lucile Chatellard, School of Engineering
  Bioluminescence as a light source for microalgae culture (£2,850)
  This project supported the build of a new photobioreactor for the co-culture of microalgae with bioluminescent microbes. Such a bioreactor would demonstrate how bioluminescence can stimulate the growth of microalgae and could be used as a substitute for electricity for enlighten photobioreactor. It could solve the problem of insufficient sunlight energy in industries treating wastewater and producing biomass for renewable energy.
• Dr Han Cui, School of Engineering
  Road to Raman Microscope's Commercialisation (£2,885)
  Developing a Raman microscope to measure the spatiotemporal delivery of growth factors to stem cells, in order to precisely control cell differentiation and fate.
• Dr Alice Miller, School of Computing
  Collaboration Seeding (£2,950)
  Visits to organisations to establish proof of concept programmes, and to strengthen long term relationships with partner institutions.
• Prof Stephen Barnett, School of Physics and Astronomy
  Chiral Rotational Spectrometer (£2,950)
  Enabling a potential commercial relationship with a co-development partner and licensee of technology developed by Professor Barnett’s group.
• Dr Pavan Konda, School of Physics and Astronomy
  Miniaturised Microscopes for longitudinal study of spinal cord metabolism in rats (£2,900)
  A miniaturised microscope is being developed to image the spinal cord in a mouse to study central neurons and glial cells using fluorescence microscopy. The new phase of the project will not only demonstrate the feasibility of longitudinal studies using our miniaturized microscope, but it will also allow serial observations made at different stages of development of the same lesion.
• Dr Claire Miller, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Investigation of the impact of GRTS river sampling designs (£2,500)
  The Environment Agency are planning to implement a new sentinel river monitoring network. This project will design a study to evaluate the performance of their chosen approach in relation to the EA requirements, to assess implications of different sizes and structure of monitoring designs.
• Dr Ian MacLaren, School of Physics and Astronomy
  Development of reliable noise free precession electron diffraction (£3,000)
  Developing hardware and software in collaboration with Nanomegas, to address synchronisation issues with an imaging detector for Scanning Precession Electron Diffraction.

• Dr Mark McGill, School of Computing Science
  6DoF Digital Pen for Virtual and Augmented Reality (£20,000)
  Virtual and Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays allow for users to be immersed in entirely virtual experiences or virtually augment the real world, and are seeing rapid development by industry heavyweights such as Oculus/Facebook, Microsoft, Google etc. Within years these headsets will encroach upon various industries e.g. being used for entertainment, collaboration and productivity. However, there are still significant unknowns regarding how we interact with, and create, virtual content. VR/AR HMDs can both render 2D planar content on any surface (be it virtual or physical), but also render content with depth in 3D, spatially located in the real/virtual environment. Given this, existing interaction techniques such as mouse/keyboard input are not sufficient for the range of possible virtual content to interact with. Existing VR/AR interactions are currently enacted via mid-air hands/gestures and positionally tracked handheld controllers. These approaches exhibit notable problems in transitioning between 2D planar and 3D interactions e.g. no sense of touch in mid-air hands, relative inaccuracy/a lack of fine motor control in positionally tracked controllers. In this collaboration with Logitech the potential for new peripherals that could support transitions between 2D planar and 3D content and allow for rested inputs and fine motor control will be scoped out.
• Dr Neil Findlay (PI), Dr Joseph Cameron, School of Chemistry
  Small molecule organic down-converters for Red and Green Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes (£18,000)
  Hybrid light-emitting diodes (LEDs) offer an attractive alternative to both organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and inorganic LED technologies as they can harness the established strength of inorganic LEDs with the broad colour availability and fine-tuning ubiquitous with organic materials. This project will bring together the team at the University of Glasgow and their experience in partnership with Plessey Semiconductors to design and synthesise light-converting molecules, to develop green and red colour converting materials compatible with the micro LED arrays manufactured by Plessey. Ultimately, success in this project will provide access to all colours of the electromagnetic spectrum as an output from micro LED arrays.
• Dr Elijah Nazarzadeh, School of Engineering
  Nebuliser platform for precision drug delivery (£18,500)
  According to the WHO, there are hundreds of millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders, including 300m people suffering from asthma, leading to 3m deaths/year worldwide. Estimates of treatment costs globally for such lung diseases is €400b/year. Generally, patients with respiratory diseases are treated by the inhalation of aerosols, where the effective delivery of medication is known to be crucially dependent upon the droplet size (1-5μm). Current technologies only achieve this for a small proportion of the medicine nebulised (<60%), leading to significant wastage, poor clinical outcomes and limiting the adoption of the next generation of new, advanced medicines (e.g. biologics based upon small RNAs). In this project, we aim to develop a demonstrator platform to increase the efficiency of pulmonary care. Our proprietary acoustic technology (protected by a granted patent and by a new application US15/525509) provides a unique, low-cost, low-power method to control droplet size soft medicines, enabling precise targeting of drugs.

• Prof Matthew Chalmers, Dr Angus Ferguson, School of Computing Science & School of Social and Political Science
  Ethical design of apps for assessing mental health (£17,000)
• Dr Philip Leifield, Dr Helen Purchase, Dr Manuele Leonelli, Dr Mark McCann, Dr Alison Devlin, Dr Eric Silverman, Dr Vittal Katikireddi, Prof Jim Lewsey, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Computing Science, School of Social and Political Science, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment
  Assessing the feasibility and usefulness of complex systems methods for the work of the new public heath body in Scotland (£23,000)
• Prof Frank Pollick, Prof Stephen Brewster, School of Psychology & School of Computing Science
  CarVR: Immersion in the journey (£30,000)

• Dr Joseph Cameron, Dr Neil Findlay, School of Chemistry
  Travel and accommodation for Materials Research Exchange 2018 (£500)
• Dr Cristina Gonzales, School of Engineering
  Developing industry interest in growth factor based biomaterial systems (£500)
  Funding to attend EPSRC / KTN Materials Research Exchange 2018 event to help early career researchers establish networks with potential collaborators in industry and academia.

• Dr Claire Miller (PI) & Prof Marian Scott, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  River network case study to inform strategic monitoring review (£10,000)
  Environment agencies invest a wealth of resource in monitoring river chemistry and biology in order to protect water quality and for compliance reporting to Europe for the Water Framework Directive. The Environment Agency is undertaking a strategic review of its water quality monitoring sites as a result of pressure to reduce the monitoring budget and to be more responsive. Advanced statistical models incorporating the river structure can provide predictions across the network, aid in the identification of clusters of sites displaying common spatiotemporal patterns, and thus inform modifications and re-design of the monitoring network that will provide efficiency savings in the monitoring budget.
• Prof Ravinder Dahiya, James Watt School of Engineering
  Hologram-like Displays with 3D gesture interface and Tactile Feedback (£40,000)
  Interaction with real physical world with various sensory modalities comes to us naturally. But can we have similar experience with virtual objects? This will have far reaching impact (in some cases disruptive) on numerous applications, which include retail market, entertainment industry, education, medical imaging, engineering applications, public demonstration, tele surgery, virtual immersive systems, space and a significant leap towards creation avatar like remote feelings.
• Dr Damien McGrouther (PI), Dr Dima Maneuski, Prof Val O'Shea, School of Physics and Astronomy
  TEM-Pix II – Follow-on development of a fully retractable novel electron microscope detector (£40,000)
  In partnership with Quantum Detectors Ltd., knowledge and technology from world-leading EPSRC funded research was applied to initiate product development of a novel imaging detector for electron microscopy. This imaging detector enables novel research by achieving noise free detection of single electrons; surpassing data quality achieved through traditional CCD routes, as well as through more expensive “direct” complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies. New imaging modes are also possible improving contrast for light atom materials and electric or magnetic fields.
• Prof Anthony Kelly, James Watt School of Engineering
  Secondment to Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global (CSTG) (£25,000)
  A 6 month secondment, where Professor Kelly worked as a consultant for CSTG, focusing on next-generation, high-speed, optoelectronic technologies. By working on collaborative projects developing semiconductor lasers for telecommunications, primarily in the Fibre To The Home (FTTH) market, Prof Kelly helped increase the technological impact for CSTG’s business.
• Prof Lee Cronin (PI), Dr Mark Symes, School of Chemistry
  Proton Electron Buffers for Automotive Energy Storage (£15,000)
  The Cronin team have developed the storage liquid concept such that it could be used to fuel electric vehicles in the same way petrol is drawn from petrol stations. This is potentially a game-changing technology if appropriate performance and supply-chain economics can be demonstrated. This project funded a commercial with experience/network contacts in the automotive sector to secure funding to prove the ‘electric fuel’ technology.
• Prof Asen Asenov, James Watt School of Engineering
  Low power, high reliability transistors for IoT applications (£40,000)
  Working with Semiwise Ltd., this project used ground breaking simulation technology developed in previous EPSRC funded projects to increase the commercial value of the SemiWise IP, as well as generating new, valuable, low power, high reliability CMOS transistor and technology IP for the IoT.
• Dr Martin Lavery, James Watt School of Engineering
  Development of Commercially Viable Free-space Optical Communications Technologies (FreeCOMM) (£35,000)
  British Telecom (BT) has a strategic goal to provide 10 million homes across the UK with an optical internet connection by 2025. However, connection to 10’s of thousands of these residences cannot be achieved with fibre in a cost-effective manner. Free-space optical (FSO) communication systems are an ideal candidate for providing cost effective solution with fibre-equivalent network speeds without the complex and expensive deployment challenges of buried optical fibre (~£1200 per meter for urban deployment). This project developed an early stage prototype FSO system that could be deployed for less than £500 per residence.
• Dr Matteo Clerici, James Watt School of Engineering
  An alternative approach to quantum-enhanced THz generation (£31,000)
  This project involved the development of a prototype THz time-domain spectrometer, which built upon previous concepts and technology co-developed through UofG and Chromacity Ltd. partnerships. Specifically, by combining a dual-wavelength high-power laser with large-area photoconductive emitter technology, a Ytterbium pumped THz time-domain spectrometer could be developed for applications in underdeveloped technologies in market niches such as THz Time Domain Spectroscopy (TDS). Traditionally, TDS is hindered by exorbitantly high costs and comparatively low power outputs: shortcomings that were hoped to be addressed with this technology.
• Prof Andy Harvey, School of Physics and Astronomy
  Hyperspectral Imaging System (£15,000)
  Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) captures spectral signatures (fingerprints) of materials to provide highly accurate analysis of condition, colour, mix, etc. Today HSI is used in applications from agriculture and astronomy to defence however cost, data output complexity and sensitivity for low cost solutions remain a barrier to wider adoption. The Glasgow solution overcomes these barriers by enabling a small, low-cost and handheld HSI system with accompanying online/cloud-based data processing service which presents results in a manner relevant to the context. The proposed project engaged a Commercial Champion to evaluate and reach a recommendation on the viability of creating a spin-out company to exploit hyperspectral imaging solutions previously developed.
• Prof Xiaoyu Luo (PI), Dr Hao Gao, Prof Dirk Husmeier, Prof Nick Hill and Prof Colin Berry, School of Mathematics and Statistics, MVLS/ICMS
  Modelling of myocardial tissue changes during disease progression and amyloid-directed drug therapies in cardiac amyloidosis (£40,000)
  Working with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), this project addressed a weakness in the treatment of heart disease, that of poor characterisation of myocardial tissues in vivo. This project has potentially a wider utility in the drug development paradigm for all types of non-congenital structural heart diseases which have an appreciable interstitial component.
• Dr Andrew Jamieson, School of Chemistry
  3D Structural Analysis of Native Conotoxins and Conotoxin Mimetics Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (£39,000)
  Developing the in-house capability to characterise the 3D structure of conotoxins and their mimetics using advanced 2D NMR spectroscopy (COSY, ROSY) with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). This will provide a new method for the characterisation of compounds of interest in the team's therapeutic research efforts, whilst facilitating future structure based medicinal chemistry efforts.
• Dr Emily Draper (PI), Prof Dave Adams, School of Chemistry
  Developing hydrogels for ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (£28,000)
  This project was developed in conjunction with Hyaltech Ltd. It aimed to characterise and understand the properties of a number of multi-component gel-based materials in order to develop a product called Fermathron One; an osteoarthritic device (OAD) with the primary function of alleviating the symptoms of osteoarthritis.

• Dr Peifeng Li, James Watt School of Engineering
  Attending two automotive/materials workshops (£650)
  Attend two workshops organised by the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) at Warwick University:
  • Automotive Council’s Lightweight Technology Roadmap, Coventry, 12 April 2017
  • Preparing for the Grand Challenge, Royal Institution, London, 25 April 2017
• Dr Caryn Hughes, James Watt School of Engineering
  Tri-CDT Engagement Conference (£3,000)
  EPSRC has outlined a need for Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) to interact with increased frequency and purpose. The EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account supported the delivery of a Tri-CDT conference, which aimed to provide extensive opportunities for explicit networking of ~100 delegates; allowing for collaborations across institutes to be fostered, and new relationships with industry and academic partners to be built.
• Dr Kiran Ramesh, James Watt School of Engineering
  Hydrobox (£1,200)
  The basic conceptual design of the Hydrobox has been completed by Scotstream Ltd. This ESPRC-IAA project enabled a collaborative study with to assess its function and its performance characteristics to identify any problems and areas where efficiencies can be improved.
• Dr Matthew Edgar, School of Physics and Astronomy
  Augmented Reality Eye Safety (£1,000)
  Many scientists and engineers work in conditions where their eyes are exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, for example in optical laboratories using lasers. The existing safety guidelines demand the use of appropriate eyewear, which block a particular wavelength of light, whilst transmitting other wavelengths. This project supported the development of an Augmented Reality Eyewear proof-of-principal demonstrator, providing a physical barrier between hazardous radiation and the eye, improving laser safety, whilst enhancing productivity of scientists and engineers working in experimental optics.
• Ms Jill Ramsay, School of Computing Science
  Enterprising Culture – Tech Start-Up Meet-Up Series (£2,900)
  This project constitutes a regular meet-up event series for those with or interested in creating technology-based businesses. The meet-up series brings together 50-70 staff, students (at all levels) and a few members of the wider business community on a monthly basis during term time to hear inspiring talks from fellow tech entrepreneurs and to network with like-minded people. The primary aim of the meet-ups is to encourage more people in all categories to start their own technology based business and to give them the confidence to do so. The meet-ups are designed to create opportunities for those with business ideas and ambitions to meet and form links with others that have complementary skill sets around which start-up teams could be formed.
• Prof Konstantinos Kontis, James Watt School of Engineering
  2017 Aerospace Symposium (£2000)
  Supporting delivery of the 4th Aerospace Symposium, with the theme of Manufacturing for Growth.

Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) Conference 2017 Call

Supporting attendance at the 2017 ATI Conference: Realising Ambition, to engage with industry.

Awarded to the following academics from the School of Engineering:

• Dr Angela Busse
• Dr Euan Wielewski
• Dr Kiran Ramesh