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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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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
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.