A trio of Swansea University scientists swapped their lab coats for legislation when they spent a week in Westminster at the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall.
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Key Grants and Projects
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(Principle Investigator) Industrial Sponsored Research to develop mini-plant informing pilot plant design for large scale synthesis of carbon nanotubes 2022 - 2025
, £158,129.42
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(Principle Investigator) Industrial Sponsored Research on the formation of Hydrogen 2022 - 2025
, £81,000
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(Principle Investigator) Welsh Government Capital Fund 2020 - 2021
Closed-loop Chemical Recycling (CCR), £270,000
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(Co-investigator) Welsh Government Sêr Cymru - Tackling Covid-19 2020 - 2021
, with Prof. Barron Dr Alexander, £204,030
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(Principle investigator) 2020 - 2022
Sponsored research agreement, £168,000
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(Principle investigator) Welsh European Funding Office 2019 - 2020
Supporting Collaborative Research and innovation in Europe, £2,390
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(Principle investigator) KESS2 & the European Regional Development Fund 2019 - 2020
MSc Energy Innovation: Upcycling of plastic materials from the healthcare sector, £17,000
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(Principle investigator) KESS2 & European Regional Development Fund 2018 - 2019
MSc Research. Engineering for the circular economy. Using nanotechnology to upcycle waste materials into higher-value products such as carbon, £16,358
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(Co-investigator) Innovate UK 2018 - 2019
Recovery of Graphite Flakes from Steelmaking By-Products, £261,336
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(Principle investigator) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Research Impact Fund Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 2018 - 2018
Upcycling Plastics: Carbon Nanomaterials from Waste Plastic, £5,000
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(Principle investigator) Swansea University and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 2017 - 2017
Single walled carbon nanotubes for use as electrical wires, £450
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(Principle investigator) Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council 2016 - 2016
UK Nanotube Collaborative, Inaugural Workshop, £11,369
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(Principle investigator) Sêr Cymru II Fellowship 2016 - 2019
Funding provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Welsh Government, £206,500
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(Co-investigator) American Chemical Society Project SEED program 2011 - 2011
Funding provided by the American Chemical Society, $6,000
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(Co-investigator) American Chemical Society Project SEED program 2010 - 2010
Funding provided by the American Chemical Society, $6,000
Public Engagements
From Bin To Bulb:
Turning Waste Plastics Into Electricity Wires
Public display from October 2019 until April 15th 2020
National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
This project started at Swansea University and looks at how to turn waste plastic into other usable materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and carbon fibre.
We are developing more efficient ways in which to light and heat our homes. We plan to reduce the energy being lost during transmission by using special carbon nanotube wires. These nanotubes are made from things like thin plastic film, black plastic food packaging and liquid solvents. All of these cannot be recycled in our household rubbish.
To see more details about the science behind this technology watch this video tour of the Dr. Orb research group.
More details and updates can be found here: http://www.esri-swansea.org/en/from-bin-to-bulb.htm
Public Engagements
Trio of Swansea University scientists go from lab bench to backbench
The visit, which took place last month, was part of a unique pairing scheme run by the Royal Society — the UK’s national academy of science — with support from the Government Office of Science.
Dr Enrico Andreoli, an associate professor at the University’s Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI), his colleague senior lecturer Dr Alvin Orbaek White (ESRI) and Dr James Cronin, associate professor of biomedical sciences in Swansea University Medical School, were among just 30 UK academics elected to attend.
They were each able to shadow an MP or civil servant to learn about their work as well as attending seminars, mock Select Committee hearings and panel discussions about how evidence is used in policy making.
The trio are all members of Impackt, a multidisciplinary organisation founded by Dr Andreoli and Dr Cronin and led by Dr Dion Curry which seeks to bring together academia, industry and policymakers to improve the impact of research on wider society.The programme also included talks from representatives of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) which provided an insight into how scientists can influence policymakers under emergency situations.Meanwhile Dr Orbaek White was paired with a civil servant in the Infrastructures Project Authority (IPA), situated between the Cabinet Office, and the Treasury.
He said: “I had several meetings with staff who are dealing with the implementation of net zero carbon and decarbonisation by 2050. All the meetings were extremely illuminating.
“I learned about the role civil servants play and this gave me a greater sense of understanding of how government works. I also had the opportunity to discuss my own work and to advocate for my area of research.
“I am now very confident in the brilliance and intelligence of the UK civil service. I understand their challenges, and more importantly, I have learned more about how to frame my work in a way that can rapidly help them to carry out theirs.”
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-events/news/2020/04/trio-of-swansea-university-scientists-go-from-lab-bench-to-backbench-.php
Other Roles
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Founder and CSO, TrimTabs Ltd
2019 - Present
Affiliated Positions
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Editorial Board Member, Journal of Carbon Research C (MDPI)
2016 - Present
Career History
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Associate Professor, Swansea University
2022 - Present
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TrimTabs, Founder
2019 - Present
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Swansea University, Senior Lecturer
2016 - 2022
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Swansea University. , Sêr Cymru II Fellow.
2017 - 2020
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA., Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2014 - 2016