If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called

Research would it?

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Albert Einstein, physicist

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Materials for the Future

Sustainable Energy

Living with Environmental Change

Strategic University Themes

Security & Conict

Changing Cultures

Global Health & Personalised Medicine

FACULTY OF SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Materials for the Future

Sustainable Energy

Living with Environmental Change

Strategic University Themes

Risk

High Performance Computing

Sensors

Microscopy

Some underpinning FSE Platforms

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Schools
Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science Engineering Environmental Sciences Physical Sciences

Research Clusters
Aerospace, Agents, BioMEMS, Oceans & Ecosystems, Materials, Dynamical Systems, Particle & Nuclear Physics, Plasmas, Economics & Computation, Sustainability, Theoretical and Computational studies, People, Space & Place......

Cross-Faculty Themes, Centres and Institutes

Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy Institute for Environmental Change Risk Institute Green Economy Network Centre for Materials Discovery High performance computing ......
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Risk & Uncertainty

We have identified Risk as being a cross-cutting theme that is important in all of the Universitys key research themes. A two day workshop was held in mid March which attracted great interest from all three Faculties. The Institute was included in the Faculty plans for 2011-12 and during the next academic session we shall be hiring in 3 staff members including a chair in an area of research yet to be defined. To provide an analytical engine for the Institute we have also launched a new Centre for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics. This is supported by our new staff in this area hired as a result of the success of our Financial Mathematics programme with XJTLU students. The City University in Hong Kong are very interested in working with us around this topic which is one of their own cross-cutting themes.
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Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy

Energy research has taken place throughout the University and the SIRE is aimed at bringing this together with new areas of research. The University is investing in 11 new academic staff members in a variety of disciplines. Themes: Photovoltaics Fuel cells Marine renewables Bio-fuels In addition to these fundamental research themes, we are collaborating with Scottish Power in the development of smart grid technologies within the Knowledge Quarter. We anticipate joint academic appointments with Scottish Power aimed at understanding how renewables are best connected to the grid. In addition we are investigating the viability of a Master in Energy Administration with ULMS.

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The Centre for Materials Discovery

The Centre is now 5 years old and the contract with Unilever has just been renewed for a further 5 years. During that time, the shared facilities have been used around the clock by the Research & Development team from Unilever, third party industrial users and, of course, UoL scientists.

Over the period of the laboratory, Unilever have brought 3 products to market based on results obtained in the CMD.

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Environmental change
Research into the underlying drivers of environmental change, and its consequences for the physical and biotic world, is of utmost importance. Themes: Understanding the driving of environmental change, including how the oceans are warming and sea level is rising around the globe and alleviating the physical impacts of climate change, including flooding, by developing sea defences, and planning and managing the coastal sector. Addressing the environmental impacts on the ecosystem, including the services provided by the ecosystem, and the effects on the transmission and global distributions of both human and animal diseases. Understanding the human involvement in, and response to, past and on-going climate change, as well as developing mitigation strategies for the future.
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Liverpool Green Economy

Part of the institutional re-structuring, involved moving social scientists into the Faculty, an important step for delivering technological research into society. This network is a policy arm of the Institute for Environmental Change. L-GrEco will develop the intellectual basis, evaluate the technological opportunities and challenges, and formulate a series of investment and policy steps necessary for the transition from the currently unsustainable position to one where environmental issues are embedded in policy and practice. Links established with Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool Vision, Groundwork, Liverpool City Council and Mersey Forest. Themes: Coastal Cities: Future Energy Demands Science and Innovation to Policy and Practices Economic Sustainability Global-Local Trade and Carbon Life-Cycle
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High Performance Computing

An underpinning technology that is becoming increasingly important for industrial applications. Due to the the improvement in hardware and software, simulations can now be performed which have a predictive nature to advise design and manufacture. In Liverpool, HPC underpins the ultimate blue skies research (events from the Hadron Collider in CERN) to more practical applications like calculating the properties and efficacy of new drug-receptor combinations. Multiscale modelling links the length and time scales of real world problems to those of the nanometer and picosecond where detailed atomistic simulations can be performed and then scaled-up to aid our understanding. Plans are underway to develop a Multiscale Modelling Institute in XJTLU with a strong interaction from industrial partners on SIP. We believe this will strongly tie together our research activities through staff exchange.
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INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL University strategy 2009

Research & Knowledge Exchange Internationalisation

Faculty strategy 2010

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Methodology & Funding

The International Graduate School will drive our research, knowledge exchange and internationalisation agendas by establishing a pool of graduate students shared between Liverpool and overseas partner institutions Partner institutions could be highly rated overseas research laboratories, universities or well established institutions in countries where we see opportunity for strategic capacity building and CSR. Graduate students will (on average) spend two years at Liverpool and two years at the partner institution, leading to a joint or dual award. The basic fee model involves sharing the tuition fee with the partner institution with the PIs picking up student subsistence. Fees can also be partially covered by an industrial collaborator, giving greater flexibility for student numbers. Sharing the funding gives a joint responsibility for the project and this focuses the attention of staff on raising their international profile and securing external funding.

Atlanta

Bilbao & Donastia

Delft

XJTU

Dalian & Qingdao

RIKEN

Kyusu XJTLU

Hong Kong So Paulo Bangkok Singapore

RIKEN
RIKEN was first organised in 1917 as a private research foundation, and reorganized in 2003 as an independent administrative institution under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. MoU signed in Q1 2009 (with SPring-8) Institutional visit in Q3 2010 Agreement signed in Liverpool in Q4 2010 Two students begin joint PhD in Q4 2010 Agree to hire in 3 students per year in STEM subjects Joint PhD programme

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) was founded in March 1949. It is a multidisciplinary institute engaging in both fundamental and applied research in chemistry and chemical engineering. Home to the first National Laboratory for Clean Energy in China. Institutional visit in Q4 2010 Tripartite MoU signed in March 2011 with BP Two students to begin PhDs in Q3 2011 Dual PhD programme

Bohai Sea

Ocean University, Qingdao

Founded in 1924, the Ocean University is a comprehensive university with interests in all aspects of the marine environment from biology through engineering to law. First contact made in 2008 through research link Institutional visit in Q1 2011 Tripartite MoU signed in August 2010 with NOC Two students to begin PhDs in Q3 2011 Dual PhD programme

Bohai Sea

CIC bioGUNE & biomaGUNE

These two life-science based research laboratories are located in the Basque region and are administratively part of the same organisation. Both are located adjacent to enterprise parks in San Sebastian and Bilbao. First contact made in 2009 with research talk Institutional visit to Liverpool in Q1 2010 Institutional visit to Spain in Q3 2010 MoU signed in Q1 2011 Two students enrolled on PhDs in Q4 2010 Joint PhD programme