£3 million of funding for promising UCL engineering researchers

Three UCL engineering researchers have each received £1 million of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in a grant scheme that recognises the most promising engineering researchers in the UK. UCL researchers took three of the total ten EPSRC Challenging Engineering awards given this year, which aim to help those early in their career to establish themselves as future leaders of research. Dr Muki Haklay (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) will create a research group to enable communities to undertake citizen science activity. This will provide more data and other resources for professional scientists, while increasing research impact and raising scientific understanding across society. Dr Alessandro Olivo (UCL Medical Physics & Bioengineering) aims to transform the use of X-rays in science and society by exploring a new approach to X-ray imaging that leads to stronger image contrast, which could be used in a variety of applications including medicine, biology, material science and security. Dr Eleanor Stride (UCL Mechanical Engineering) will focus on therapeutic imaging. She aims to build a world-leading multi-disciplinary team to develop new methods and technologies that will integrate diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and produce a step change in clinical practice.