EPSRC allocated £2M to spend on capital equipment in Phase 3 to support research in the Catalysis Hub community. Of that £0.8M was committed in the grant towards a Raman centre of Excellence to be located at the Research Complex at Harwell which will expand the equipment that the community has access to and continues to make use of to date. We are now seeking expressions of interest from the community on where and how to allocate the remaining £1.2M. In the 10.35 – 11.15 session on July 2nd further details will be given regarding the process (i.e. timelines, procedures and assessment criteria) and will also outline how organisations can express interest and develop a bid in collaboration with the UK Catalysis Hub. Most of this session will be allocated to receiving questions from the community about this process.
Principal Investigator – Professor and EPSRC Early Career Fellow – Andrew M. Beale;
Andy Beale is a professor at UCL and EPSRC Early Career Fellow based at RCaH and UCL Chemistry. His work focuses on establishing structure-function relationships in catalytic solids as a function of both time and space using in situ and operando spectroscopic and scattering methods. Specific areas of interest include the development of novel imaging techniques for the study of single catalyst bodies under real reaction conditions, determining the nature of the active site and reaction mechanism in catalysts for NOx abatement, unravelling the self-assembly mechanism of the microporous materials and the characterisation of catalytically active supported nanoparticles. In 2013, he and a colleague successfully spun out a company (Finden Ltd).