Research Grants

The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics that are of particular relevance:

  • RS 2025R2 Shining Light on Sub-Bandgap Absorption in Exciplex OLED emitters
    Andrew Danos
    £30,000 Royal Society
    15-10-2025 - 14-10-2026
  • Barocaloric solid-state cooling: from materials to devices
    Anthony Phillips and Huasheng Wang
    £662,322 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    12-09-2025 - 11-09-2027
  • Barocalorics for green cooling: from understanding to design
    Anthony Phillips
    £519,846 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-08-2025 - 31-07-2028
  • (EPSRC Programme Grant) Enabling Net Zero and the AI Revolution with ultra-low energy 2D Materials and Devices (NEED2D)
    Colin Humphreys, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Oliver Fenwick and David Dunstan
    £3,121,510 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    16-04-2025 - 30-06-2030
  • Single-molecule measurement of molecular spin relaxation times
    James Thomas
    £29,306 Royal Society
    01-03-2025 - 28-02-2026
  • EPSRC Core Equipment 2024
    Wen Wang, Kshitij Sabnis, Andrei Sapelkin, Joe Briscoe and Ian Sanders
    £449,082 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-01-2025 - 30-06-2026
  • Transformative Energy Storage Technologies For A Resilient Planet
    Alan Drew
    £51,163 British Council
    01-08-2024 - 31-07-2026
  • ICONIC
    Christian Nielsen
    £462,723 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-05-2024 - 30-04-2028
  • GridPP7 Staff Grant QMUL
    Jonathan Hays
    £1,319,127 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    01-04-2024 - 31-03-2028
  • URF Enhanced Research Expenses 2023
    Junjie Liu
    £139,827 Royal Society
    01-04-2024 - 31-12-2025
  • URF transfer: Coherent control of molecular spin qubits by electric field
    Junjie Liu
    £213,902 Royal Society
    01-04-2024 - 31-12-2025
  • Who cares about fundamental science?
    Christopher White and Anthony Phillips
    £246,248 Leverhulme Trust
    11-01-2024 - 31-05-2027
  • Piecing together the neutrino mass puzzle in search of new particles with precision oscillation experiments and quantum technologies-GRANT TRANSFER
    Nicola McConkey
    £431,666 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    01-01-2024 - 30-09-2027
  • UKRI FLF Renewal
    Jan Mol
    £593,003 MRC Medical Research Council
    01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026
  • GridPP7 QMUL Tier-2 Hardware Tranche-1 (2023-2026)
    Jonathan Hays
    £142,000 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    01-10-2023 - 31-03-2026
  • Neutron studies of disordered materials: linking experiment to theory: Studentship - Peter Dung Nguyen
    Anthony Phillips
    £36,426 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    01-10-2023 - 30-09-2026
  • Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversion
    Christian Nielsen and Andrew Livingston
    £62,500 Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027
  • Flexible organic alpha detectors
    Adrian Bevan and Alan Drew
    £143,147 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
    18-09-2023 - 17-09-2027
  • GreenX3: Innovative and sustainable materials, processes and technologies for a GREENer and circular economy
    Marina Resmini
    £782,029 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-09-2023 - 31-08-2027
  • A molten salt community framework for predictive modelling of critical characteristics
    Kostya Trachenko
    £147,082 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    01-07-2023 - 30-06-2026
  • (HEOM) High entropy oxides: understanding their unique properties and dynamics using machine learning interatomic potentials - MSCA PF-GF Trachenko/Dicks
    Kostya Trachenko
    £262,232 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-06-2023 - 28-02-2027
  • Digital Transformation of Electromagnetic Material Design and Manufacturing for Future Wireless Connectivity (DREAM)
    Yang Hao, Kaspar Althoefer, Arumugam Nallanathan and Anthony Phillips
    £2,579,837 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 
    Grant Summary

    01-06-2023 - 31-05-2028
  • Clean growth through clean energy in the developing world
    Alan Drew
    £16,185 British Council
    01-04-2023 - 31-12-2025
  • Jochen Brandt URF Enhanced Research Expenses 2023
    Jochen Brandt
    £134,895 Royal Society
    01-04-2023 - 05-01-2026
  • Physics, Accuracy and Machine Learning: Towards the next-generation of Molecular Potentials - Misquitta
    Alston Misquitta and Rachel Crespo Otero
    £265,251 EPSRC - EU Scheme
    01-02-2023 - 31-01-2027
  • Long range detection of alpha particles - STFC iCASE with NNL
    Peter Hobson and Linda Cremonesi
    £109,288 Science & Technology Research Council (STFC)
    01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026
  • Long range detection of alpha particles - STFC iCASE with NNL - company contribution
    Peter Hobson and Linda Cremonesi
    £32,060 NNL National Nuclear Laboratory Limited
    01-10-2022 - 30-04-2026
  • URF including expenses - Jochen Brandt-GRANT TRANSFER
    Jochen Brandt
    £468,299 Royal Society
    26-09-2022 - 05-01-2026