Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Intelligent Transport that are of particular relevance:
- 2025 Copy of Bridgestone Elastomer Research Annual Renewal #21
James Busfield
£4,000 Bridgestone Corporation
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2026 - From Lab to Field: Developing Resilient Coating Materials for Rain Erosion Protection in Wind Turbine Applications
Wei Tan
£59,991 Henry Royce Institute
01-10-2025 - 28-02-2026 - SRI - PhD#2 - Elastomer Materials Collaboration (S&E PhD Studentship, 2025/26, Commercial, Fully External, Band B, 3.5Y)
James Busfield
£163,816 Sumitomo Corporation Europe
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2029 - (EPSRC IDLA - NATS Industrial Contribution) Probabilistic Simulation for Airport Airside Operations: Uncertainty Quantification and Optimisation
Xinwei Wang and Jun Chen
£60,000 NATS Limited
01-09-2025 - 31-08-2029 - Safe and Sustainable Offshore Aquaculture: Advancing Reliability, Renewable Integration & Training
Eldad Avital
£254,329 Lloyd's Register FoundationGrant Summary
01-09-2025 - 31-08-2030 - BA Horizon Europe Pump Priming: BROADVIEW-ED Boosting Resilience of Automated Driving in Extreme Weather and Eco-Design - PI Donzella
Valentina Donzella
£10,000 British Academy
01-08-2025 - 31-01-2026 - KTP Archipelago 10144476
Radomir Slavchov and Ahmed Ismail
£276,771 Innovate UK
01-08-2025 - 28-02-2028 - Grant Transfer - Sim4CAMSens - Extension to RESWM4456
Valentina Donzella
£131,575 Innovate UK
01-07-2025 - 31-03-2026 - Aston Martin F1 PhD Studentship #2 (S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2024/25, Commercial, Fully External, Band B, 3.5Y)
James Busfield
£161,268 Aston Martin Formula One Team
01-04-2025 - 30-09-2028 - Continental Tires PhD Studentship (S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2024/25, Commercial, Fully External, Band B, 3.5Y)
James Busfield
£161,268 Continental Tires
01-04-2025 - 30-09-2028 - Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) Award - Phase 2
Chinnapat Panwisawas
£50,000 Shimane University
01-04-2025 - 31-03-2027 - Small wind turbine accelerated aerodynamic development from lab-scale to full-scale field tests
Eldad Avital
£15,450 British Council
01-03-2025 - 28-02-2027 - Birla Carbon PhD Studentship #2 (Filler Reinforcement)
James Busfield
£159,453 Birla Carbon USA Inc.
01-01-2025 - 30-06-2028 - 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 - SLB PhD Studentship #7 (Elastomer Research)
James Busfield
£133,219 Schlumberger Technology Corporation
01-01-2025 - 30-06-2028 - Understanding crack arrest mechanisms in natural resilient materials for efficient bionic design
Haibao Liu
£11,980 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - PANORAMIC: Physicochemical and mechanical studies of agricultural waste-based materials in South Africa and Zambia for sustainable packaging
Haibao Liu
£143,184 Royal Society
13-12-2024 - 12-12-2027 - Small-scale vertical-axis wind turbines for backup domestic electricity generation in rural South African communities
Kshitij Sabnis and Neil Cagney
£134,505 Royal Society
13-12-2024 - 12-12-2027 - LSIMPACT: Life-like Resilient Materials for Mitigating Liquid-Solid Impact Damage
Wei Tan
£1,270,404 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2029 - H2 Store: UK-Australia Renewable Hydrogen Innovation Partnership Programme
Tao Liu and Han Zhang
£128,750 Innovate UK
01-07-2024 - 31-03-2026 - Multi-sensor Eversion Robot Towards Intelligent Endoscopic Microsurgery - ERC SyG 2023 Althoefer
Kaspar Althoefer, Ketao Zhang and Mohamed Thaha
£1,791,893 EU Commission - Horizon EuropeGrant Summary
01-07-2024 - 30-06-2030 - EMPreSS: Enhanced Methane Monitoring Precision for a Multi-Agent UAV System Solution
Paul Balcombe and Ketao Zhang
£415,038 NERC Natural Environment Research Council
01-06-2024 - 31-05-2027 - The Architecture of Photosynthesis
Haibao Liu
£13,846 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
01-05-2024 - 30-09-2026 - Data-Driven Surrogate Modelling for Liquid Ammonia Direct Injection Spray Characteristics
Amin Paykani
£171,122 Royal Society
31-03-2024 - 28-02-2027 - (S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2023/24, Commercial, Fully External, Band B, 3Y)
Harshad Bhadeshia and Chinnapat Panwisawas
£158,000 Molycop USA LLC
04-02-2024 - 03-02-2027 - DISTorting the Aerospace Manufacturing Boundaries: OPerational Integration of Autonomy on Titanium
Chinnapat Panwisawas and Harshad Bhadeshia
£120,000 Innovate UK
01-02-2024 - 31-07-2026 - Vibration-Based Non-Destructive Testing for metal Additive Manufacturing
Yunpeng Zhu and Chinnapat Panwisawas
£19,695 Dutch Research Council
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2027 - TacOBot: Tactile Robotic Octopus for Underwater Mobility and Exploration - Studentship Mark Bromley
Lorenzo Jamone
£120,000 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
02-10-2023 - 31-03-2027 - EPSRC ICASE - Routing and Scheduling Movements at Airports Considering Interdependence and Intermedi
Jun Chen
£34,968 NATS Limited
01-10-2023 - 30-09-2027 - Aeroacoustics of Dynamic Stall
Sergey Karabasov and Eldad Avital
£487,827 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-09-2023 - 28-02-2027 - Integrated Human-Augmented Robotics and Intelligent Sensing Platform for Precision Viticulture
Ketao Zhang and Lei Su
£297,599 Innovate UKGrant Summary
01-09-2023 - 31-08-2026 - Design by additive manufacturing of Innovative nanocomposites for biomedical application
Chinnapat Panwisawas
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2023 - 30-03-2026 - Non-probabilistic reliability calibration method and error compensation strategy for precision assembly robot based on workspace partition
Jun Chen and Michal Weiszer
£11,000 Royal Society
31-03-2023 - 31-12-2025 - Solar-powered VTOL UAS-based Intelligent Sensing/Monitoring Applications of Precision Agriculture (S&E Industry Studentship Model)
Hasan Shaheed
£72,964 Uavictor Aerospace LtdGrant Summary
01-02-2023 - 31-01-2026 - Eversion and Growing Robots: Pipe Navigation, Inspection and Characterisation
Kaspar Althoefer
£122,759 Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2026 - iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (NDA) - Eversion robots for radiologically constrained environments characterisation and decommissioning
Kaspar Althoefer
£50,772 Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd
19-09-2022 - 18-09-2026 - iCASE Award Industrial Contribution (Airbus) Rich Simulation Driven Design Optimisation: Olivia Sophie Catherine Jelks
Vassili Toropov and Pihua Wen
£37,428 Airbus Defence & Space Ltd
12-09-2022 - 11-09-2026 - Mechanics and biomimicking of marine mussel plaques-GRANT TRANSFER
Tao Liu
£165,813 Leverhulme Trust
15-07-2022 - 09-12-2025 - Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) collaborative research project “Next Wing” led by AIRBUS UK
Vassili Toropov and Tao Liu
£458,219 Innovate UK
01-04-2022 - 31-03-2026 - Using machine learning techniques to optimise the motion performance of soft robots physically interacting with their environment
Kaspar Althoefer
£99,076 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
04-10-2021 - 31-03-2026 - Aston Martin F1 PhD Studentship #1 (Tyre Wear Optimisation)
James Busfield
£135,655 Aston Martin Formula One Team
20-09-2021 - 31-12-2026 - SRI - PhD Studentship #1 (Tyre Wear Analysis)
James Busfield
£125,155 Sumitomo Corporation Europe
20-09-2021 - 19-03-2027 - iCASE - Schlumberger PhD #5 (Filler Reinforcement)
James Busfield
£30,954 Schlumberger Limited
01-04-2021 - 31-12-2025 - EPSRC DTP Mobility 2020
Eram Rizvi, Mark Sandler, Nicholas Bryan-Kinns and Jun Chen
£1,705,691 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2020 - 30-04-2028 - iCASE Award Industrial Contribution BT
Jun Chen and John Drake
£36,000 British Telecommunications PLC
01-10-2019 - 30-04-2026
