Research Grants
The following are current grants held by members of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering that are of particular relevance:
- Building a tool and codes to predict corrosion in CO2 pipelines
Radomir Slavchov
£217,308 SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
01-12-2025 - 31-07-2027 - Environmental Peptide Production
Andrew Livingston and Ludmila Peeva
£979,063 Innovate UK
01-11-2025 - 31-10-2028 - Proof of Concept Study using Sulphur Polymer for Fluorine-Free Protective Fabrics
Colin Crick and Dimitrios Papageorgiou
£99,959 Ministry of Defence
01-11-2025 - 30-04-2026 - (EPSRC NIA) Understanding and mitigating performance-loss and degradation pathways in protected organic semiconductor photoelectrodes for solar water splitting
Flurin Eisner
£577,243 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2028 - EPSRC additional skills funding summer 2025
Akram Alomainy, Iran Roman, Ella Rice, Maria Liakata, Simon Dixon, Giorgio Chianello, Andrew Livingston, Kostas Papafitsoros, Silvia Liverani, Eleni Matechou and Linus Wunderlich
£180,000 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilGrant Summary
01-10-2025 - 31-03-2026 - EPSRC-IDLA-Band C Chemical and phase behaviour kinetics for impurities in CO2 streams
Radomir Slavchov
£58,500 SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2029 - Exactly PEGylated Pharmaceuticals” – Acronym “ExactPEG
Andrew Livingston, Maria Burggraef and Peter Szlosarek
£204,878 UK Research & Innovation
01-10-2025 - 30-09-2026 - Sustainable Leather Alternatives from Brewery Waste via Wet Spinning of Protein Fibres
Dimitrios Papageorgiou
£75,140 Henry Royce Institute
01-10-2025 - 28-02-2026 - 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 - ELASTIC MSCA PF 2023 Li/Li
Zhe Li
£192,297 EPSRC - EU Scheme
01-09-2025 - 31-08-2027 - KTP Archipelago 10144476
Radomir Slavchov and Ahmed Ismail
£276,771 Innovate UK
01-08-2025 - 28-02-2028 - (EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship) Direct Preparation of Sustainable Li-S Batteries by Electrospinning Inverse-vulcanized Biocopolymers: Michael Thielke
Ana Sobrido and Michael Thielke
£476,753 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
24-07-2025 - 23-07-2028 - MITIGATE MSCA PF 2024 Balcombe/Yang
Paul Balcombe
£217,591 EU Commission - Horizon Europe
10-07-2025 - 09-07-2027 - Sustainable Separation Membranes for Green Pharmaceutical Manufacturing - SusSep
Andrew Livingston and Ludmila Peeva
£931,967 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-06-2025 - 31-05-2028 - (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 - Aqualunar Challenge Prize - Runner-Up Prize
Edo Boek and Stoyan Smoukov
£50,000 Challenge Works
01-04-2025 - 31-03-2026 - Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Power Roll - In-situ perovskite solar cell analysis
Stoichko Dimitrov and Joe Briscoe
£226,363 Innovate UK
01-04-2025 - 31-03-2027 - Rep-PPV MSCA PF 2023 Li/Igbari
Zhe Li
£206,086 EPSRC - EU Scheme
10-03-2025 - 09-03-2027 - 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 - Grant Transfer - Concept and network development for thermochemical hydrogen production
Ricardo Grau-Crespo
£15,874 British Council
01-01-2025 - 28-02-2026 - INCREDIBLE: next-generatIoN Cancer phototheRapy basED on bIometaBolised textiLes integarated with NIR-absorbing π-conjugated organic sEmiconductors
Zhe Li
£11,900 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - Industry Fellowship: Revolutionizing fuel and electrolysis cell production for NET-Zero: Sustainable, Efficient, and Rapid ceramics processing (Acronym: SER)
Salvatore Grasso
£157,805 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2028 - Pyrolysis, ignition and burning of multilayer photovoltaic modules
Roberto Volpe
£12,000 Royal Society
01-01-2025 - 31-12-2026 - Fugitive, Vented and Unburned Methane Emissions from Ships Part 2 (FUMES 2)
Paul Balcombe
£636,740 INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC.
10-12-2024 - 09-12-2026 - (S&E QM Matched Funded PhD Studentship, Commercial, 2024/25, Non-Lab based, Band C, 4 Year) Solutions for Carbon Capture and Storage: Quadrupolar Solvency and Association
Radomir Slavchov
£102,891 SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Grant Summary
01-10-2024 - 31-01-2029 - H2 Store: UK-Australia Renewable Hydrogen Innovation Partnership Programme
Tao Liu and Han Zhang
£128,750 Innovate UK
01-07-2024 - 31-03-2026 - 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 - Multifunctional High Entropy Carbide and Boride Ceramic Composites: Compositional Space, Novel Synthesis, and Property Tailoring
Michael Reece
£523,977 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
22-04-2024 - 21-04-2027 - International Exchanges 2023: Bacterial nanocellulose -based polymer composites as solid polymer electrolyte for metal ion-batteries
Ana Sobrido
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026 - Understanding The Evolution of Na-ion Battery Interfaces Through Operando Electrochemical surface-enhanced
Maria Crespo-Ribadeneyra
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2024 - 30-03-2026 - RS Research Grant 2024 Round 1: Designing electrochemical interfaces for ultradurable sodium-ion batteries
Maria Crespo-Ribadeneyra
£69,832 Royal Society
01-03-2024 - 31-12-2025 - Scalable Manufacturing of Single-Crystal Perovskite Optical and Electronic Devices: Follow-On
Lei Su, Oliver Fenwick, Colin Crick and Stoichko Dimitrov
£941,955 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-03-2024 - 28-02-2028 - (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 - Prevention of phase-separation of corrosive aqueous acidic solution out of liquid carbon dioxide - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentship
Radomir Slavchov
£79,541 CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGEGrant Summary
02-02-2024 - 01-02-2027 - (RECYCLENS) Enhancing Confidence in the Use of Recycled Polymers and Composites via Electrical Sensing
Han Zhang
£49,996 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-02-2024 - 31-01-2026 - 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 - Molecular separations membranes for high boiling green solvents
Andrew Livingston
£398,483 SIGMA-ALDRICH CORPORATION
01-02-2024 - 31-01-2026 - EPSRC ICASE - Textile derived carbon electrodes in redox flow batteries
Ana Sobrido
£34,968 Schlumberger Limited
18-01-2024 - 18-01-2028 - Combined foam fractionation and downflow filtration rig for PFAS removal and destruction
Edo Boek
£10,000 Mineral Technologies Inc
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2025 - Meet Future Needs of Antenna Measurements and RF Characterization for Changing Research Culture
Max Ovidio Munoz Torrico, Akram Alomainy and Andrew Livingston
£816,763 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-01-2024 - 31-12-2026 - 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 - Utilisation of Synthetic Fuels for “Difficult-to-Decarbonise” Propulsion
Xi Jiang, Nader Karimi and Edo Boek
£436,930 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-08-2023 - 31-07-2026 - (EPSRC Fellowship) From 2D to 4D: correlative imaging and modelling for next-generation automotive l-GRANT TRANSFER
Xuekun Lu
£448,598 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2023 - 30-06-2026 - High Performance Thermoelectric Film with Organic-Inorganic Van der Waals Heterostructures
Oliver Fenwick
£12,000 Royal Society
31-03-2023 - 30-03-2026 - Membrane Separation in API Manufacture – Scoping and Performance Prediction (UKRI DTP CASE)
Andrew Livingston
£31,500 AZ AstraZeneca UK Limited
01-01-2023 - 30-06-2026 - Advanced Intelligent Control for Building Management System - SEMS Industry-supported PhD studentship
Huasheng Wang and Guang Li
£97,420 Carbon Numbers Ltd
01-10-2022 - 31-03-2026 - SEMS: PhD studentship from Qinetiq
Michael Reece
£82,500 Qinetiq
01-10-2022 - 30-06-2026 - Synthesis of High Selecticity Membranes
Andrew Livingston
£726,224 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-02-2022 - 31-07-2027 - Paragraf PhD Studentship Contribution (Linked to WT 6349893)
Colin Humphreys
£70,155 Paragraf Paragraf Limited
01-01-2022 - 31-12-2025 - Studentship: Advanced PAEK membranes
Andrew Livingston
£198,113 Evonik Industries AG
01-12-2021 - 31-08-2026 - FErroelectric NanoComposites for Enhanced Solar energy efficiency - ERC CoG 2020 Joe Briscoe
Joe Briscoe
£1,599,922 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-06-2021 - 31-05-2027 - Sustainable Electrodes for Advanced Flow Batteries
Ana Sobrido
£1,163,370 MRC Medical Research Council
01-02-2021 - 31-01-2026
