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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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.