Funded research grants

Current projects

1. Title: DISTorting the Aerospace Manufacturing Boundaries: OPerational Integration of Autonomy on Titanium (DISTROPIA)  
   Funder: Innovate UK - SMART Euraka Advanced Manufacturing
   Role: Principal Investigator (PI) 
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 1 February 2024 – 31 July 2026
   Grant reference: 10086469
   Project cost: £120,000
    
2. Title: Vibration-Based Non-Destructive Testing for metal Additive Manufacturing 
   Funder: Dutch Research Council
   Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2027
   Grant reference: N/A
   Project cost: £19,695
    
3. Title: Physical metallurgy in steel grinding media (S&E Flexible PhD Studentship, 2023/24, Commercial, Fully External, Band B, 3Y)
   Funder: Molycop USA LLC
   Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 4 February 2024 – 3 February 2027
   Grant reference: N/A
   Project cost: £158,000
    
4. Title: Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre (NEXTA) Award: One of the seven Japanese national projects funded for development of advanced materials for aerospace and motor applications 
   Funder: Grant-in-aid for the Promotion of Regional Industries and University from Cabinet Office, Japan 
   Role: Principal Investigator (PI) & Visiting Associate Professor
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2027
   Grant reference: N/A
   Project cost: £100,000
    
5. Title: Royal Society International Exchanges 2022 Round 3: Design by additive manufacturing of Innovative nanocomposites for biomedical application, collaboration with National University of Singapore
   Funder: Royal Society
   Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 31 March 2023– 30 March 2025
   Grant reference: IES\R3\223167
   Project cost: £12,000
    
6. Title: EPSRC Equipment Business Case: Correlative Analysis of Crystals in 3D
   Funder: Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
   Role: Co-Investigator (Co-I)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 1 Oct 2022 – 31 Aug 2025
   Grant reference: EP/X014614/1
   Project cost: £2,724,062.88
    

Previous projects

1. Title: EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship: From Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0: Additive Manufacturability
   Funder: Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
   Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
   Host organisation: Department of Materials, University of Oxford
   Duration: 29 Jun 2018 –2 Jan 2020
   Grant reference: EP/S000828/1
   Project cost: £388,202
    
2. Title: EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship: From Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0: Additive Manufacturability
   Funder: Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
   Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering, University of Leicester
   Duration: 2 Jan 2020 –28 Jun 2022
   Grant reference: EP/S000828/2
   Project cost: £212,917 
    
3. Title: Next Generation TATARA Co-creation Centre: One of the seven Japanese national projects funded for development of advanced materials for aerospace and motor applications 
   Funder: Grant-in-aid for the Promotion of Regional Industries and University from Cabinet Office, Japan 
   Role: Research Co-I & Consultant & Visiting Associate Professor
   Host organisation: Department of Materials, University of Oxford
   Duration: 1 Oct 2018 – 1 Apr 2023
   Grant reference: N/A
   Project cost: JPY7,000,000,000 or £43,000,000 in total
    
4. Title: British Council - Thai-UK World-class University Consortium: Drone Research and Training Center for Smart City 
   Funder: British Council
   Role: UK Co-Investigator (Co-I)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 1 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022
   Grant reference: N/A
   Project cost: £9,500
    
5. Title: EPSRC Standard Research grant: Novel Brazing Filler Metals using High Entropy Alloys: Advanced Brazing Filler Metals by High Entropy Alloy Design (AHEAD) 
   Funder: Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
   Role: Project collaborator
   Host organisation: School of Engineering, University of Leicester
   Duration: 1 Jan 2020 – 1 Jan 2023
   Grant reference: EP/S032169/1
   Project cost: £1,092,461
    
6. Title: RAEng-Newton Fund - Transforming Systems through Partnership - Thailand 2020-2021: Novel titanium alloys for biomedical application
   Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)-Newton Fund Programme 
   Role: UK Principal Investigator (PI)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 19 Apr 2021– 31 Jan 2024
   Grant reference: TSP2021\100052
   Project cost: £110,510.52
    
7. Title: RAEng-Newton Fund - Transforming Systems through Partnership - Thailand 2020-2021: Digital Materials Design and Additive Manufacturing for helping patients on bespoke 3D-printed implants 
   Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)-Newton Fund Programme 
   Role: UK Principal Investigator (PI)
   Host organisation: School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London
   Duration: 30 Apr 2021–31 Jan 2024
   Grant reference: TSP2021\100366
   Project cost: £89,964.20
    
8. Title: RAEng-Newton Fund Industry Academia Partnership Programme - Thailand 17/18:  Additive manufacturing of titanium based metallic glass for biomedical applications 
   Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng)-Newton Fund Programme 
   Role: UK Co-Investigator (Co-I)
   Host organisation: School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
   Duration: 31 Mar 2018 – 30 Mar 2020
   Grant reference: IAAP1/100163
   Project cost: £50,000
    
9. Title: Optimisation of superalloys for additive manufacture using computational methods (OptAM)
   Funder: Innovate UK
   Role: Research collaborator with Alloyed Ltd. (formerly OxMet Technologies Inc.)
   Host organisation: Department of Materials, University of Oxford
   Duration: 1 Mar 2018 –1 Nov 2019
   Grant reference: 104047
   Project cost: £214,605
    
10. Title: £4m Next Generation Modelling Project of Manufacturing Portfolio Programme which is a joint University of Birmingham / Rolls-Royce plc / the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) collaborative venture
    Funder: Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), Innovate UK and Department for Business Innovation & Skills.
    Role: Research Fellow (Project (Workpackage) Lead)
    Host organisation: School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
    Duration: 1 Jun 2016 –31 May 2018
    Grant reference: N/A
    Project cost: ~£4,000,000 
     
11. Title: £4m CASiM2 (The Centre for Advanced Simulation \& Modelling for Manufacturing) project which was a joint University of Birmingham / Rolls-Royce plc / the MTC collaborative venture
    Funder: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
    Role: Research Fellow (Project (Workpackage) Lead)
    Host organisation: School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
    Duration: 1 Jun 2013 –31 May 2016
    Grant reference: N/A
    Project cost: ~£4,000,000