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Boffin · Swansea
Dr Tomos Evans
Principal Scientist, Steel & Circularity · Swansea University
Takes steel seriously in a decade that keeps pretending it can do without it. Particularly good on coatings, scrap, and things that rust in Welsh rain.
Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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Boffin · Oxford
Dr Priya Venkat
Lecturer in Industrial Machine Learning · University of Oxford
Teaches models manners. Her work lives on the shop floor, where a false positive has a cost and a false negative has a larger one.
Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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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 · Leeds
Prof. Nkechi Adeyemi
Professor of Infrastructure Asset Management · University of Leeds
Decides whether a Victorian structure has another twenty years in it. Evidence for deferral, or the argument for acting now.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum · Digital & AI
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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 · 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 · Bloomsbury
University College London
university
A large Bloomsbury university with a teaching hospital across the road. Unusually good at the awkward distance between a laboratory and a ward.
Life Sciences & MedTech · Digital & AI · Materials & Quantum · 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 · Leeds
Plumbline
startup
Industrial machine learning for firms who have been sold a dashboard before. Calibrated, auditable, and willing to say it does not know.
Digital & AI · Advanced Manufacturing · Mobility & Infrastructure
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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 · 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 · 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 · Leeds
Large-scale structures laboratory
University of Leeds
A strong floor, several actuators, and a willingness to load a real component until it objects. For remaining-life questions that a model cannot settle.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Equipment · South Wales coast
Coastal exposure and coatings test site
Swansea University
Panels on a rack by the sea, patiently disproving accelerated test results. Slow, cheap, and unusually difficult to argue with.
Materials & Quantum · Mobility & Infrastructure · Advanced Manufacturing
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Collaboration · South Wales / Midlands
Low-carbon rail sleeper trial
Swansea University · University of Leeds · industrial partners sought
A sleeper is not a white paper. This collaboration will put alternative mixes in the ground and see what the trains think.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum · Advanced Manufacturing
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Work package · Swansea
Characterise graphene-enhanced concrete for rail sleepers
Swansea University partners · £25–45k
Mixes, coupons, and the difference between a press release and a sleeper. Freeze–thaw, fatigue, and a report a track engineer can read.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum
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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 · North of England
Remaining-life assessment of a masonry viaduct
Regional infrastructure asset owner · £45–80k
A nineteenth-century structure, a renewal programme that cannot afford it yet, and a question that has to be answered with evidence rather than instinct.
Mobility & Infrastructure · Materials & Quantum
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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.