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Boffin · South Kensington
Prof. Harriet Pemberton
Professor of Aerospace Structures · Imperial College London
Knows what a composite wing does when you ask it to work on a Monday. Advises on structures that must be light, honest, and certifiable.
Aerospace & Defence · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum
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Boffin · Manchester
Dr Idris Okonkwo
Reader in Quantum Sensing · The University of Manchester
Builds sensors that notice things the rest of us walk past. Particularly good at taking a laboratory miracle outdoors without it sulking.
Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI · Aerospace & Defence
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Boffin · Edinburgh
Dr Fiona MacLeod
Senior Lecturer in Electrochemical Engineering · The University of Edinburgh
Treats batteries and electrolysers as engineering, not as a personality. Excellent on the bit between a promising electrode and a plant that pays for itself.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Boffin · Cambridge
Prof. Rajesh Nair
Professor of Photonic Systems · University of Cambridge
Puts light to work. Satellites, factories, and the occasional stubborn biomedical problem all look the same to a well-behaved waveguide.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum
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Boffin · Bloomsbury
Dr Amina Shah
Associate Professor of Medical Devices · University College London
Translates devices that clinicians will actually use. Knows the difference between a clever sensor and a product that can be sterilised, billed, and trusted.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing
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Boffin · Derby
Sir Geoffrey Walsh
Industrial Fellow, Propulsion · Formerly Rolls-Royce · now independent
Has seen more combustors than most people have seen combustor slides. Now introduces the next generation to the ones that still work.
Aerospace & Defence · Clean Energy & Net Zero · Advanced Manufacturing
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Boffin · Swansea
Dr Tomos Evans
Principal Scientist, Steel & Circularity · Swansea University
Takes steel seriously in a decade that keeps pretending it can do without it. Particularly good on coatings, scrap, and things that rust in Welsh rain.
Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Boffin · Oxford
Dr Priya Venkat
Lecturer in Industrial Machine Learning · University of Oxford
Teaches models manners. Her work lives on the shop floor, where a false positive has a cost and a false negative has a larger one.
Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Boffin · Glasgow
Dr Callum Fraser
Senior Research Fellow, Marine Energy · University of Strathclyde
Works with water that has opinions. Tidal and wave devices, moorings, and the North Atlantic's gift for finding the weak bolt.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure · Advanced Manufacturing
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Boffin · Bristol
Dr Sophie Chen
Associate Professor of Robotics · University of Bristol
Builds robots that can be trusted near people and parts. Inspection, assembly, and the gentle art of not dropping a £40,000 optic.
Advanced Manufacturing · Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · Glasgow
Dr Eleri Vaughan
Senior Lecturer in Spacecraft Engineering · University of Glasgow
Gets small spacecraft through qualification without cooking the payload. Thermal design, test procedures, and the schedule nobody costed properly.
Space & Satellites · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum
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Boffin · Leeds
Prof. Nkechi Adeyemi
Professor of Infrastructure Asset Management · University of Leeds
Decides whether a Victorian structure has another twenty years in it. Evidence for deferral, or the argument for acting now.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Cambridge
Dr Ruth Ellison
Independent Consultant, Regulatory Science & Quality Systems · Independent · formerly a notified body
Has read more technical files than is entirely healthy. Tells device companies what they will be asked for, while there is still time to have it.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing
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Boffin · Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr Sarah Whitcombe
Reader in Power Systems · Newcastle University
Explains why the grid connection, not the technology, is the long lead item. Then helps you design around it.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Digital & AI · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Boffin · Cambridge
Professor Tuomas Knowles
1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry · University of Cambridge
Leads work on the physical chemistry and kinetics of biomolecular assembly at Cambridge Chemistry and the Cavendish.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Liverpool
Professor Catriona Waitt
NIHR Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health · University of Liverpool
Integrates clinical trials with pharmacometric and PBPK methods for medicine use in under-studied populations, including breastfeeding mothers and infants.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Manchester
Professor Amin Rostami-Hodjegan
Professor of Systems Pharmacology · University of Manchester
Director of Manchester’s Centre for Applied Pharmacokinetic Research; internationally known for PBPK and IVIVE in drug development.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Manchester
Professor Aleksandra Galetin
Professor of Translational Pharmacokinetics · University of Manchester
Deputy Director of CAPKR; specialises in transporter/metabolism IVIVE and PBPK for complex patient populations and regulatory use.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Manchester
Dr Daniel Scotcher
PBPK / IVIVE Lead, CAPKR · University of Manchester
Leads PBPK/IVIVE work at CAPKR, translating in vitro metabolism and excretion data to clinical predictions.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Manchester
Professor Leon Aarons
Professor of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics · University of Manchester
Long-standing CAPKR lead in population pharmacokinetics and computational PK/PD modelling.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Manchester
Dr Jill Barber
Proteomics Lead, CAPKR · University of Manchester
Leads proteomics at CAPKR, quantifying metabolising enzymes and transporters that underpin mechanistic PK models.
Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · Liverpool
Professor Saye Khoo
Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics · University of Liverpool
Leads infection pharmacology at Liverpool, including clinical trials, population PK and the Liverpool Drug Interactions programme.
Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · Oxford
Professor Charlotte Deane
Professor of Structural Bioinformatics · University of Oxford
Leads Oxford Protein Informatics Group (OPIG), applying statistics and ML to protein structure and small-molecule discovery.
Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · Cambridge
Professor Andreas Bender
Visiting Professor of Molecular Informatics · University of Cambridge
Molecular informatics and ML for efficacy and safety/tox endpoints; Visiting Professor at Cambridge Chemistry (also Khalifa University).
Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · London
Dr Pedro Ballester
Associate Professor of Bioengineering · Imperial College London
Develops machine-learning methods for drug discovery and bioactivity prediction at Imperial’s Department of Bioengineering.
Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · London
Professor Robert Glen
Professor of Computational Medicine · Imperial College London
Computational medicine and molecular informatics; formerly founded Cambridge’s Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics.
Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Boffin · London
Professor Oscar Della Pasqua
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics · University College London
Chair of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics at UCL; quantitative approaches across early and late drug development.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · London
Professor Joseph Standing
Professor of Pharmacometrics · University College London
Leads pharmacometrics at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, including clinical and data-science approaches to dose optimisation.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Boffin · Manchester
Dr Kayode Ogungbenro
Reader in Cancer Pharmacometrics; Modelling Lead, CAPKR · University of Manchester
CAPKR Modelling Lead; population PK for empirical and PBPK models, oncology pharmacometrics, and MSc Model-Based Drug Development.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Organisation · South Kensington
Imperial College London
university
A university that treats engineering as a calling and London as a laboratory. Strong on energy, aerostructures, and the sort of student who builds things at weekends.
Aerospace & Defence · Clean Energy & Net Zero · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum
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Organisation · Manchester
The University of Manchester
university
Graphene's hometown, and still rather good at the rest of the periodic table. A serious industrial city with a serious university attached.
Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing · Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Organisation · National network
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
research centre
The country's workshop with a research degree. Helps firms move from 'it worked once' to 'it works on a line'.
Advanced Manufacturing · Aerospace & Defence · Digital & AI · Clean Energy & Net Zero
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Organisation · Oxfordshire
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
research centre
Where the country keeps its tokamaks and its patience. Fusion is a long game; Culham plays it with instruments.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI
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Organisation · Teddington
National Physical Laboratory
research centre
The country's official grown-up about measurement. If you cannot measure it, NPL will not let you pretend.
Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI · Space & Satellites · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Organisation · Harwell, Oxfordshire
Satellite Applications Catapult
research centre
Sits deliberately between the people who build spacecraft and the people who need the data. Neither group speaks the other's language without help.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI · Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Organisation · Bloomsbury
University College London
university
A large Bloomsbury university with a teaching hospital across the road. Unusually good at the awkward distance between a laboratory and a ward.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Organisation · Glasgow
University of Glasgow
university
Builds an improbable number of small spacecraft for a city with no launch pad. Also rather good at very small things generally.
Space & Satellites · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Organisation · Cambridge
Lumen Forge
startup
A small team building photonic payloads that fit in a CubeSat and a budget. Less swagger than the slides next door; more photons per gram.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum
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Organisation · Sheffield
Hearthline
startup
Industrial heat pumps for people who still have a furnace and a spreadsheet that no longer adds up. Yorkshire pragmatism, London-grade thermodynamics.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Organisation · Bristol
Quill Robotics
startup
Inspection robots with good manners. Designed for airframes, laboratories, and any corridor too narrow for a heroic human.
Advanced Manufacturing · Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Organisation · Orkney
Tidewright
startup
Tidal generation designed by people who live next to the water. Less brochure, more weather window.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure · Advanced Manufacturing
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Organisation · Oxford
Ridgeway Diagnostics
startup
A point-of-care diagnostics company that started its quality system before its second prototype. This is rarer than it ought to be.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing
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Organisation · Leeds
Plumbline
startup
Industrial machine learning for firms who have been sold a dashboard before. Calibrated, auditable, and willing to say it does not know.
Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Organisation · Glasgow
University of Strathclyde
university
A technological university in a city that still builds things. Marine energy, manufacturing, and a useful impatience with vagueness.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Advanced Manufacturing · Space & Satellites
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Equipment · South Kensington
National Wind Tunnel Facility — 5×4 low-speed
Imperial College London
A proper tunnel for people who have outgrown a desk fan. Low-speed, well-instrumented, and run by people who will tell you if your model is dirty.
Aerospace & Defence · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Equipment · Manchester
Electron Microscopy Suite
The University of Manchester
SEMs, TEMs, and the patience to prepare a sample that will not lie. Used by people who need to see the grain, not the brochure.
Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Equipment · Orkney
EMEC grid-connected tidal berth
European Marine Energy Centre
A berth in water that does not care about your pitch deck. Grid-connected, instrumented, and surrounded by people who understand weather windows.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Equipment · Teddington
Time & Quantum Measurement Labs
National Physical Laboratory
Clocks, sensors, and the official British opinion on what time it is. If your device claims a stability, this is where that claim grows up.
Materials & Quantum · Space & Satellites · Digital & AI
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Equipment · Coventry
Metal additive manufacturing cell
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Lasers, powder, and the post-processing everyone forgets to budget. For parts that must be more than a conversation piece.
Advanced Manufacturing · Aerospace & Defence · Clean Energy & Net Zero
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Equipment · Bloomsbury
Clinical Research Facility
University College London / UCLH
A hospital that will let you try the device, provided you have done the homework. Beds, nursing, and a regulator-shaped corridor.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Equipment · Glasgow
Hydrodynamics tank complex
University of Strathclyde
A long tank for short tempers. Wave-making, towing, and the education of CAD models that have never met water.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure · Space & Satellites
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Equipment · Cambridge
Photonics cleanroom
University of Cambridge
A cleanroom that still believes in yield. Waveguides, detectors, and the packaging that decides whether they leave the building.
Space & Satellites · Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI
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Equipment · Glasgow
Thermal-vacuum and vibration test facility
University of Glasgow
Where a payload finds out what it is. Chamber time, a vibration table, and staff who will not let you test without a written procedure.
Space & Satellites · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Equipment · Leeds
Large-scale structures laboratory
University of Leeds
A strong floor, several actuators, and a willingness to load a real component until it objects. For remaining-life questions that a model cannot settle.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Equipment · South Wales coast
Coastal exposure and coatings test site
Swansea University
Panels on a rack by the sea, patiently disproving accelerated test results. Slow, cheap, and unusually difficult to argue with.
Materials & Quantum · Mobility & Infrastructure · Advanced Manufacturing
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Equipment · Edinburgh
Electrochemical and cell test suite
The University of Edinburgh
Cells cycled against duty profiles that came from a real site rather than a standard. Includes the safety testing everyone would rather postpone.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Equipment · Bristol
Robotics and inspection development cell
University of Bristol
A cell where a robot is allowed to be bad at the job in private. Compliant manipulators, inspection rigs, and a safety officer who joins in week two.
Advanced Manufacturing · Digital & AI · Life Sciences & MedTech
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Collaboration · Derby
Hydrogen combustor materials — a grown-up roundtable
Independent · hosted with Derby industrial fellows
A closed, unshowy working group on liner alloys, coatings and the things that crack when the flame is too keen.
Aerospace & Defence · Clean Energy & Net Zero · Materials & Quantum
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Collaboration · Bristol / Oxford / Leeds
Shop-floor vision without the theatre
Quill Robotics · University of Oxford · Plumbline
A collaboration to put computer vision on lines that already have quality engineers — and to keep both parties speaking.
Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing
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Collaboration · Orkney / Glasgow
Tidal array wake study
Tidewright · University of Strathclyde
Two devices are a conversation. An array is a neighbourhood dispute. We would like to measure the wakes before the planning inquiry does.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Digital & AI
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Collaboration · Teddington / Manchester
Traceable quantum magnetometry in the field
NPL · The University of Manchester
Taking a laboratory magnetometer into a field, a hangar, or a slightly magnetic van, and still knowing what the number means.
Materials & Quantum · Aerospace & Defence
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Collaboration · South Wales / Midlands
Low-carbon rail sleeper trial
Swansea University · University of Leeds · industrial partners sought
A sleeper is not a white paper. This collaboration will put alternative mixes in the ground and see what the trains think.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Collaboration · Bloomsbury
Clinical diagnostic translation circle
University College London · startups by application
A small circle for teams approaching first-in-human work. Less accelerator theatre, more protocol and pharmacy.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI
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Collaboration · Glasgow / Cambridge / Harwell
Small satellite qualification consortium
University of Glasgow · Lumen Forge · Satellite Applications Catapult
Chamber slots, shared procedures, and an end to every small team writing the same thermal-vacuum document from scratch.
Space & Satellites · Advanced Manufacturing · Materials & Quantum
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Collaboration · Sheffield / Newcastle / participating sites
Industrial heat site data pool
Hearthline · Newcastle University · sites by invitation
Anonymised heat and electricity data from real factories, pooled so that integration studies stop starting from an annual average.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Advanced Manufacturing · Digital & AI
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Work package · Sheffield
Design a hydrogen-ready combustor liner for a 2 MW industrial turbine
Hearthline · £40–70k
A liner that can live with hydrogen without becoming modern art. Thermal, materials and a drawing pack a foundry will not laugh at.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Aerospace & Defence · Advanced Manufacturing
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Work package · Swansea
Characterise graphene-enhanced concrete for rail sleepers
Swansea University partners · £25–45k
Mixes, coupons, and the difference between a press release and a sleeper. Freeze–thaw, fatigue, and a report a track engineer can read.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum
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Work package · Orkney
Build a digital twin of a tidal barrage lock
Tidewright · £30–55k
A twin that predicts gate loads and silt, not a dashboard that looks like a video game. Must run on a laptop in a harbour office.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Digital & AI · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Work package · Cambridge / facility TBC
Thermal-vacuum campaign for a 6U photonic payload
Lumen Forge · £18–32k
Book the chamber, write the procedure, and do not cook the optics. We have a payload. We need a grown-up campaign.
Space & Satellites · Materials & Quantum
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Work package · Bristol / Filton area
Trial a confined-space inspection robot on a retired airframe
Quill Robotics · £22–38k
A wing that is no longer flying, a robot that would like to be trusted, and a defect set that is not a stock photograph.
Aerospace & Defence · Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing
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Work package · Teddington / host hangar
Field survey: quantum magnetometer in an aircraft hangar
National Physical Laboratory partners · £15–28k
Hangars are magnetic in all the wrong ways. We need a host site and a team that can survey without shutting the airport.
Materials & Quantum · Aerospace & Defence
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Work package · London
Usability study for a point-of-care diagnostic
Independent medtech sponsor · £12–20k
Nurses, a device, and the moment it becomes obvious the lid is on the wrong side. Formative usability before anyone mentions a pivotal trial.
Life Sciences & MedTech
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Work package · West Midlands
Integration study: 180 °C heat pump on a finishing line
Hearthline · £20–35k
A factory that still believes steam is a personality. We need a process-integration study that a finance director and a fitter can both survive.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Advanced Manufacturing
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Work package · Leeds / two host sites
Independent validation of a supplier's defect-detection model
Plumbline · £18–30k
Somebody else's model, data it has never seen, and a number that will not please everyone. Short, unwelcome, occasionally decisive.
Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing
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Work package · North of England
Remaining-life assessment of a masonry viaduct
Regional infrastructure asset owner · £45–80k
A nineteenth-century structure, a renewal programme that cannot afford it yet, and a question that has to be answered with evidence rather than instinct.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum
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Work package · Oxford / laboratory TBC
Bench validation of a point-of-care assay against a comparator method
Ridgeway Diagnostics · £25–40k
An accredited laboratory, a recognised comparator, and a dataset that will go into a regulatory submission. Precision matters more than speed here.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Advanced Manufacturing
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Work package · Cambridge / remote
Ground-segment prototype for a two-satellite constellation
Lumen Forge · £35–60k
Scheduling, telemetry and a tasking interface for two spacecraft. Boring, essential, and the difference between a constellation and a hobby.
Space & Satellites · Digital & AI
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Work package · North East England
Connection feasibility for a bus depot electrification
Regional transport operator · £15–25k
Whether the depot can be electrified without a substation, and what managed charging would have to look like. Awarded and now complete.
Clean Energy & Net Zero · Mobility & Infrastructure · Digital & AI
What you can search
Five kinds of thing, described properly
- Boffins
Academic and industrial experts, each with what they are looking for, what they would decline, and a realistic notice period. Search a technique, a material or a problem rather than a job title.
- Organisations
Universities, research centres and startups, with the routes in — contract research, facility access, studentships, published packages — and an honest note on how to approach them.
- Equipment
Facilities with lead times, what to bring, what you leave with and what they cannot do. The limitations are frequently the most useful field on the page.
- Collaborations
Open working groups and shared studies, with the contribution expected, the return, the commitment in hours, and the data and intellectual property terms stated up front.
- Work packages
Scoped jobs with a budget band, a deadline, deliverables, evaluation criteria and milestones. Apply directly; the publisher reads it, not us.
Searching well
A few habits that help
- Search the problem, not the discipline. 'Coating failure' and 'remaining life' will find more than 'materials science'.
- Try a piece of kit. Tank, chamber, hangar, cleanroom and microscope all return facilities and the people who run them.
- Filter by domain when you want to browse and leave it open when you want to be surprised. Cross-domain results are frequently the useful ones.
- If a result looks nearly right, read the 'not for' or 'limitations' field before you write. It will save you a fortnight.
- Found nobody? Tell us what you searched for. A gap in the catalogue is more useful to us than a compliment.