EPSRC Capital Award emphasising support for Early Career Researchers

EPSRC 资本奖强调对早期职业研究人员的支持

• 批准号: EP/S017623/1
• 负责人: Ken Badcock
• 金额: $ 28.67万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FS017623%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Capital; Award; emphasising; support

The development of new healthcare technologies and materials for solar energy conversion would have significant societal benefits and it will directly address EPSRC priorities of enabling a Healthy and Resilient Nation. It is therefore important that the UK's research base in these areas is strengthened. The University of Liverpool will use the capital award to accelerate the activities of a large cohort of high potential early career researchers (ECRs) in these fields. Our aim is to procure fit-for-purpose equipment that leverages existing investment and will enable our ECRs' most ambitious research programmes whose aims include: the development of entirely new classes of photovoltaic devices, realising materials for artificial photosynthesis, the advancement of novel technologies for surface decontamination and the discovery of new antimicrobial materials. Providing our ECRs with state-of-the-art equipment to address the underpinning mechanisms of these technologies will deliver new capabilities for our team and allow our researchers to develop world-class laboratories that achieve both academic and societal impact. The equipment will be housed in an ECR led laser laboratory and have new capabilities in fast transient spectroscopy, primarily laser induced fluorescence and transient absorption spectroscopy. This will also have wider benefits to the academic community with applications across, catalysis, sensing and advanced manufacturing also being able to gain insight from the equipment. To ensure maximum usage this will be shared equipment, administered through the Universities Shared Facilities Scheme. Equipment sharing and collaborative science is at the core of our proposal as it provides access to a wide user base, leads to the development of novel approaches to existing problems and ultimately will accelerate the career development of our most promising and talented early career researchers.

开发用于太阳能转换的新医疗保健技术和材料将产生重大社会效益，并将直接解决 EPSRC 实现健康和有复原力的国家的优先事项。因此，加强英国在这些领域的研究基础非常重要。利物浦大学将利用这笔资金加速一大批高潜力的早期职业研究人员（ECR）在这些领域的活动。我们的目标是采购适合用途的设备，利用现有投资，并使我们的 ECR 最雄心勃勃的研究项目得以实现，其目标包括：开发全新类别的光伏设备、实现人工光合作用材料、新技术的进步用于表面净化和新抗菌材料的发现。为我们的 ECR 提供最先进的设备来解决这些技术的基础机制，将为我们的团队带来新的能力，并使我们的研究人员能够开发出世界一流的实验室，从而实现学术和社会影响。该设备将安装在 ECR 主导的激光实验室中，并具有快速瞬态光谱方面的新功能，主要是激光诱导荧光和瞬态吸收光谱。这也将为学术界带来更广泛的好处，催化、传感和先进制造等领域的应用也能够从设备中获得洞察力。为了确保最大限度地利用，这将是共享设备，通过大学共享设施计划进行管理。设备共享和协作科学是我们提案的核心，因为它提供了广泛的用户群，导致开发解决现有问题的新方法，并最终将加速我们最有前途和最有才华的早期职业研究人员的职业发展。