UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensing and Timing
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing, a collaboration between 7 universities, NPL, BGS and industry, will bring disruptive new capability to real world applications with high economic and societal impact to the UK. The unique properties of QT sensors will enable radical innovations in Geophysics, Health Care, Timing Applications and Navigation. Our established industry partnerships bring a focus to our research work that enable sensors to be customised to the needs of each application. The total long term economic impact could amount to ~10% of GDP.
Gravity sensors can see beneath the surface of the ground to identify buried structures that result in enormous cost to construction projects ranging from rail infrastructure, or sink holes, to brownfield site developments. Similarly they can identify oil resources and magma flows. To be of practical value, gravity sensors must be able to make rapid measurements in challenging environments. Operation from airborne platforms, such as drones, will greatly reduce the cost of deployment and bring inaccessible locations within reach.
Mapping brain activity in patients with dementia or schizophrenia, particularly when they are able to move around and perform tasks which stimulate brain function, will help early diagnosis and speed the development of new treatments. Existing brain imaging systems are large and unwieldy; it is particularly difficult to use them with children where a better understanding of epilepsy or brain injury would be of enormous benefit. The systems we will develop will be used initially for patients moving freely in shielded rooms but will eventually be capable of operation in less specialised environments. A new generation of QT based magnetometers, manufactured in the UK, will enable these advances.
Precision timing is essential to many systems that we take for granted, including communications and radar. Ultra-precise oscillators, in a field deployable package, will enable radar systems to identify small slow-moving targets such as drones which are currently difficult to detect, bringing greater safety to airports and other sensitive locations.
Our world is highly dependent on precise navigation. Although originally developed for defence, our civil infrastructure is critically reliant on GNSS. The ability to fix one's location underground, underwater, inside buildings or when satellite signals are deliberately disrupted can be greatly enhanced using QT sensing. Making Inertial Navigation Systems more robust and using novel techniques such as gravity map matching will alleviate many of these problems.
In order to achieve all this, we will drive advanced physics research aimed at small, low power operation and translate it into engineered packages to bring systems of unparalleled capability within the reach of practical applications. Applied research will bring out their ability to deliver huge societal and economic benefit. By continuing to work with a cohort of industry partners, we will help establish a complete ecosystem for QT exploitation, with global reach but firmly rooted in the UK.
These goals can only be met by combining the expertise of scientists and engineers across a broad spectrum of capability. The ability to engineer devices that can be deployed in challenging environments requires contributions from physics electronic engineering and materials science. The design of systems that possess the necessary characteristics for specific applications requires understanding from civil and electronic engineering, neuroscience and a wide range of stakeholders in the supply chain. The outputs from a sensor is of little value without the ability to translate raw data into actionable information: data analysis and AI skills are needed here. The research activities of the hub are designed to connect and develop these skills in a coordinated fashion such that the impact on our economy is accelerated.
Gravity sensors can see beneath the surface of the ground to identify buried structures that result in enormous cost to construction projects ranging from rail infrastructure, or sink holes, to brownfield site developments. Similarly they can identify oil resources and magma flows. To be of practical value, gravity sensors must be able to make rapid measurements in challenging environments. Operation from airborne platforms, such as drones, will greatly reduce the cost of deployment and bring inaccessible locations within reach.
Mapping brain activity in patients with dementia or schizophrenia, particularly when they are able to move around and perform tasks which stimulate brain function, will help early diagnosis and speed the development of new treatments. Existing brain imaging systems are large and unwieldy; it is particularly difficult to use them with children where a better understanding of epilepsy or brain injury would be of enormous benefit. The systems we will develop will be used initially for patients moving freely in shielded rooms but will eventually be capable of operation in less specialised environments. A new generation of QT based magnetometers, manufactured in the UK, will enable these advances.
Precision timing is essential to many systems that we take for granted, including communications and radar. Ultra-precise oscillators, in a field deployable package, will enable radar systems to identify small slow-moving targets such as drones which are currently difficult to detect, bringing greater safety to airports and other sensitive locations.
Our world is highly dependent on precise navigation. Although originally developed for defence, our civil infrastructure is critically reliant on GNSS. The ability to fix one's location underground, underwater, inside buildings or when satellite signals are deliberately disrupted can be greatly enhanced using QT sensing. Making Inertial Navigation Systems more robust and using novel techniques such as gravity map matching will alleviate many of these problems.
In order to achieve all this, we will drive advanced physics research aimed at small, low power operation and translate it into engineered packages to bring systems of unparalleled capability within the reach of practical applications. Applied research will bring out their ability to deliver huge societal and economic benefit. By continuing to work with a cohort of industry partners, we will help establish a complete ecosystem for QT exploitation, with global reach but firmly rooted in the UK.
These goals can only be met by combining the expertise of scientists and engineers across a broad spectrum of capability. The ability to engineer devices that can be deployed in challenging environments requires contributions from physics electronic engineering and materials science. The design of systems that possess the necessary characteristics for specific applications requires understanding from civil and electronic engineering, neuroscience and a wide range of stakeholders in the supply chain. The outputs from a sensor is of little value without the ability to translate raw data into actionable information: data analysis and AI skills are needed here. The research activities of the hub are designed to connect and develop these skills in a coordinated fashion such that the impact on our economy is accelerated.
Planned Impact
The Hub for Sensors and Timing will build on an exceptional track record of delivering significant impact based on world-class research. Our initiatives for impact include:
1) Supply of a trained, skilled workforce. We will train over 500 PDRAs, PhDs and undergraduate students in QT Innovation; our sector-leading first year PhD training course will be developed into a self-contained taught Masters' course accessible to industry-based participants
2) Industry-led collaborative projects; in Phase 1 we delivered £75M of leverage, expected to rise to £100M in Phase 2
3) Educate over 200 companies in the potential of QT, influencing investment behaviour through technoeconomic data such as Value Chain Analysis
4) A pipeline of technology exploitation opportunities for the UK through IP capture. The first Hub captured 145 ROIs and 15 patents, we expect this to increase in Phase 2
5) Reach and educate over 100 000 people via our public engagement activities, social media campaigns, and website
Long term, Quantum sensors with improved performance to current technologies will provide significant savings and generate new high-value markets. We will develop technologies relevant for 4 key sectors:
Infrastructure Productivity. Use of gravity sensors within surveys could reduce project overspend from 100% to 20%. We will focus initially on railway applications, yielding a potential saving of >£250M p.a. Mobile gravity sensors will accurately locate buried infrastructure, reducing utilities incurred costs of >£1.5 bn in street works and >6 million days of road disruption.
Oil and Environment. Conservative estimates indicate markets for quantum-sensors in oil surveys (£45M p.a.), volcano monitoring (>£200M), and carbon sequestration sites (>£100M p.a.) with obvious economic and environmental benefits, e.g. streamlining footprint and cost of oil exploration and enabling efforts to combat global warming. Use within soil-monitoring systems will facilitate 10% improvement in crop yield, helping to feed the global population
Healthcare. The economic cost of dementia is estimated at $1trn (World Alzheimer's Report 2015). MEG can monitor brain function which, with quantum sensors, can be made wearable. This will unlock new treatment pathways, enabling increased quality of life for patients and reducing the care load on society. Our magnetic brain scanning system will pave the way for myriad clinical and neuroscientific advances. Lifetime compliance enables data capture in children, enabling study of neurodevelopment. Free movement allows new experimental paradigms, e.g. in virtual environments, social interaction, or studying walking/falls in the elderly. At a cost <£100k, MEG could replace EEG as the technique of choice for epilepsy monitoring. Other clinical applications include brain injury, mental health and dementia. A 10% penetration of the 10,000 hospitals in Europe and US would yield a market of £100M.
Timing and Navigation. An estimated 6-7% of GDP in Western countries is dependent on SatNav (EU Commission 2011). In the UK, sectors generating a total of £206bn in GVA (11.3% of UK GDP) are supported directly by GNSS (London Economics 2017). The military navigation market was $8.4Bn in 2017 growing to $12.1Bn by 2023 (Markets & Markets: June 2018). Cold atom technology has the potential to supplant classical units, gaining a market share worth £7.5Bn in 2017 (QT Blackett review). Quantum timing could provide a GNSS resilient solution for telecoms, energy networks and financial trade impacting 4-5% of GDP. Ultra-low phase noise oscillators using optical clocks promise a step change in high resolution and distributed array radar - critical to aerospace and automotive applications for unmanned aerial / automotive vehicles - and will enable radar and communications systems to be placed closer together in the spectral allocation, freeing up highly valuable frequency bands in the congested EM spectrum.
1) Supply of a trained, skilled workforce. We will train over 500 PDRAs, PhDs and undergraduate students in QT Innovation; our sector-leading first year PhD training course will be developed into a self-contained taught Masters' course accessible to industry-based participants
2) Industry-led collaborative projects; in Phase 1 we delivered £75M of leverage, expected to rise to £100M in Phase 2
3) Educate over 200 companies in the potential of QT, influencing investment behaviour through technoeconomic data such as Value Chain Analysis
4) A pipeline of technology exploitation opportunities for the UK through IP capture. The first Hub captured 145 ROIs and 15 patents, we expect this to increase in Phase 2
5) Reach and educate over 100 000 people via our public engagement activities, social media campaigns, and website
Long term, Quantum sensors with improved performance to current technologies will provide significant savings and generate new high-value markets. We will develop technologies relevant for 4 key sectors:
Infrastructure Productivity. Use of gravity sensors within surveys could reduce project overspend from 100% to 20%. We will focus initially on railway applications, yielding a potential saving of >£250M p.a. Mobile gravity sensors will accurately locate buried infrastructure, reducing utilities incurred costs of >£1.5 bn in street works and >6 million days of road disruption.
Oil and Environment. Conservative estimates indicate markets for quantum-sensors in oil surveys (£45M p.a.), volcano monitoring (>£200M), and carbon sequestration sites (>£100M p.a.) with obvious economic and environmental benefits, e.g. streamlining footprint and cost of oil exploration and enabling efforts to combat global warming. Use within soil-monitoring systems will facilitate 10% improvement in crop yield, helping to feed the global population
Healthcare. The economic cost of dementia is estimated at $1trn (World Alzheimer's Report 2015). MEG can monitor brain function which, with quantum sensors, can be made wearable. This will unlock new treatment pathways, enabling increased quality of life for patients and reducing the care load on society. Our magnetic brain scanning system will pave the way for myriad clinical and neuroscientific advances. Lifetime compliance enables data capture in children, enabling study of neurodevelopment. Free movement allows new experimental paradigms, e.g. in virtual environments, social interaction, or studying walking/falls in the elderly. At a cost <£100k, MEG could replace EEG as the technique of choice for epilepsy monitoring. Other clinical applications include brain injury, mental health and dementia. A 10% penetration of the 10,000 hospitals in Europe and US would yield a market of £100M.
Timing and Navigation. An estimated 6-7% of GDP in Western countries is dependent on SatNav (EU Commission 2011). In the UK, sectors generating a total of £206bn in GVA (11.3% of UK GDP) are supported directly by GNSS (London Economics 2017). The military navigation market was $8.4Bn in 2017 growing to $12.1Bn by 2023 (Markets & Markets: June 2018). Cold atom technology has the potential to supplant classical units, gaining a market share worth £7.5Bn in 2017 (QT Blackett review). Quantum timing could provide a GNSS resilient solution for telecoms, energy networks and financial trade impacting 4-5% of GDP. Ultra-low phase noise oscillators using optical clocks promise a step change in high resolution and distributed array radar - critical to aerospace and automotive applications for unmanned aerial / automotive vehicles - and will enable radar and communications systems to be placed closer together in the spectral allocation, freeing up highly valuable frequency bands in the congested EM spectrum.
Organisations
- University of Birmingham (Lead Research Organisation)
- Thales Group (Collaboration)
- Young Epilepsy (Collaboration)
- Quspin Inc (Collaboration)
- University of Copenhagen (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) (Collaboration)
- Ultra Electronics (Collaboration)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- M Squared Lasers Ltd (Collaboration)
- Magnetic Shields Ltd (Collaboration)
- Re:Cognition Health Limited (Project Partner)
- Knowledge Transfer Network Ltd (Project Partner)
- Balfour Beatty (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Canal and River Trust (Project Partner)
- Novanta (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Ordnance Survey (Project Partner)
- MBDA (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- M Squared Lasers (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- General Lighthouse Authorities (Project Partner)
- Collins Aerospace (Project Partner)
- ESP Central (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Teledyne e2v (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Centre for Trauma (Project Partner)
- Airbus (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- PA Consulting Group (Project Partner)
- Unitive Design and Analysis Ltd. (Project Partner)
- XCAM Ltd (UK) (Project Partner)
- Oxford Instruments (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Northrop Gruman (UK) (Project Partner)
- RSK Group plc (Project Partner)
- Jacobs (United States) (Project Partner)
- Severn Trent (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Socotec (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- University of Sydney (Project Partner)
- BP (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Qinetiq (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BT Research (Project Partner)
- Forresters (Project Partner)
- Atomic Weapons Establishment (Project Partner)
- Nemein (Project Partner)
- Royal IHC (UK) (Project Partner)
- Cardno (Project Partner)
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Project Partner)
- RedWave Labs (Project Partner)
- Atkins (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Leonardo MW Ltd (Project Partner)
- Network Rail (Project Partner)
- Shield Therapeutics (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Bridgeporth (Project Partner)
- The Coal Authority (Project Partner)
- Added Scientific Ltd (Project Partner)
- National Physical Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Royal Institute of Navigation (Project Partner)
- Geometrics (Project Partner)
- Magnetic Shields Limited (Project Partner)
- Geomatrix (Project Partner)
- Fraunhofer UK Research (Project Partner)
- Torr Scientific Ltd (Project Partner)
- QuSpin (United States) (Project Partner)
- Oxford Electromagnetic Solutions Limited (Project Partner)
- J Murphy & Sons Limited (Project Partner)
- Ferrovial (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Skyrora Limited (Project Partner)
- Manufacturing Technology Centre (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Zhu L
(2020)
A dielectric metasurface optical chip for the generation of cold atoms.
in Science advances
El-Neaj Y
(2020)
AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space
in EPJ Quantum Technology
Rammeloo C
(2020)
Performance of an optical single-sideband laser system for atom interferometry
in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Moriya PH
(2020)
Sub-kHz-linewidth VECSELs for cold atom experiments.
in Optics express
Xiaxi Cheng
(2020)
Building a Sensitive Atom Interferometer for Navigation
Hill RM
(2020)
Multi-channel whole-head OPM-MEG: Helmet design and a comparison with a conventional system.
in NeuroImage
Sinclair M
(2020)
1.4 million Q factor Si3N4 micro-ring resonator at 780 nm wavelength for chip-scale atomic systems.
in Optics express
| Title | Helmet creation kits for children |
| Description | As part of our public engagement work we worked with Mark Lim and Hefin Jones to create cardboard OPM helmet prototypes. These were then sent out to schools and children at Young Epilepsy who were encouraged to add their own designs. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The feedback from the children and their families has played a big part in how we manage our work with young people at UCL and Young Epilepsy. It has led to new designs for the room, the helmets and essential information to pass on to families. |
| URL | https://engagement.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/projects/opm-collaboration/ |
| Description | We have discovered a novel way to map brain function, which is significantly more versatile and cheaper, than any existing technology. This promises a revolution in medical diagnostics for brain health, e.g. dementia in the ageing society, schizophrenia, trauma and child concentration deficit. We have demonstrated the detection of underground targets in civil engineering environments, which promises to de-risk construction works, reducing cost overruns, accidents and roadworks. This has been published in Nature and had extensive media coverage reaching over 11,000,000 people We have contributed to the national discussions about resilient critical national infrastructure and position, navigation and timing, working on solutions for autonomous vehicles and underwater operations. We have triggered discussions with stakeholders about airspace control requirements in times of packet delivery drones and flying taxis. We have set up a worldwide unique radar test facility for quantum oscillator enabled radar for the surveillance of the airspace in and above cities, |
| Exploitation Route | We have a very active knowledge transfer program with industry, working on collaborative projects both with direct industry funding and with InnovateUK-funded collaborative activities led by industry partners. we expect the emergence of a range of products and services using quantum sensors, contributing to a safer environment, resilient national infrastructure and multi-£bn economic benefits. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Agriculture, Food and Drink,Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
| URL | http://www.quantumsensors.org |
| Description | The Hub has contributed to the development of a commercial ecosystem in the area of Quantum Technology, in particular quantum sensors and timing. Highlight successes are a joint venture spin-off Cerca for quantum magnetoencephalography systems, which has already sold two units internationally, as well as BAE Systems, BP, BT and PA collaborating with the Hub to create an end-user driven roadmap for quantum sensors supporting the resilience of critical national infrastructure in the UK. The Hub findings have also been picked up by the press and contributed to international roadmapping activities. One example is the identification of Quantum Sensors as one of the top 10 emerging technologies in 2020 by the World Economic forum, mentioning explicitly two of the Hub activities in their reasoning. The hub research has led to the creation of a second spin-off DeltaG, which aims at the commercialisation of gravity gradient instrumentation. The hub has contributed to a large number of policy briefings and standards discussions, supporting the development of a QT commercial ecosystem in the UK. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2019 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Construction,Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Dstl Contested ElectroMagnetic Environment Programme Advisor |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | improved national security |
| Description | OPM symposium |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The symposium brought together OPM experts from multiple domains- industry, clinical and engineering. Numerous on-going collaborations and questions arose from the meeting. |
| URL | https://biomag2020.org/ |
| Description | Scientific advice to Minister for Defence Procurement |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Improvements in national security |
| Description | Working with BEIS, MOD, InnovateUK, NCSC and Dstl for quantum technology definitions on the National Security Investment Bill |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | The bill is aimed to prevent foreign states purchasing companies and IP from high technology companies and one of the 17 areas is quantum technology. |
| URL | https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8784/ |
| Description | chair of IoP Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Promote the role of physics in education, health, the environment, technology, and scientific literacy. We work with a range of partners to support and develop the teaching of physics in schools; we encourage innovation, growth and productivity in business including addressing significant skills shortages; and we provide evidence-based advice and support to policymakers across Scotland. |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/physics-community/iop-membership-where-you-are/iop-scotland#gref |
| Description | CASPA Accelerometer |
| Amount | £747,118 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Department | Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Clinical deployment of wearable functional neuroimaging |
| Amount | £1,300,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10037425 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 01/2026 |
| Description | Concurrent non-invasive millisecond imaging of brain and spinal cord in health and disease |
| Amount | £659,982 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 223736/Z/21/Z |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | DASA - Wind Farm Mitigation |
| Amount | £400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Thales Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | France |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) Open Call for Innovation |
| Amount | £66,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Description | Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) Open Call for Innovation |
| Amount | £33,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | Department of Transport - Catapult |
| Amount | £84,969 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | Development of a lifespan compliant magnetoencephalography system |
| Amount | £935,016 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V047264/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Development of a lifespan compliant magnetoencephalography system |
| Amount | £935,017 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V047264/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Feasibility study into Quantum Technology based Gravity Gradient Sensing for CCS (sub award of UKCCSRC, funded by EPSRC EP/P026214/1) |
| Amount | £29,993 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Gravimetry survey of the Mount Meager volcanic complex using a MEMs gravimeter |
| Amount | £12,272 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/V02034X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | Gravity Delve |
| Amount | £424,982 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 133991 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2020 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | Gravity gradiometry with an enhanced measurement rate for deployment on moving platforms (PhD) |
| Amount | £131,445 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Industrial CASE Account - Imperial College London 2020 |
| Amount | £1,841,616 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V519534/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | Interface for quantum clock links - IQ-CLIK |
| Amount | £181,113 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10010836 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | International Clock and Oscillator Networking - ICON |
| Amount | £1,559,399 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W003279/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | International Network on Sensor and Timing Applications with Quantum Technologies (INSTA-QT) |
| Amount | £507,956 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W026945/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | International Network on Space Quantum Technologies |
| Amount | £480,293 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W027011/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | MEMS Gravimeter |
| Amount | £300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | BP (British Petroleum) |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | Network synchronisation better than 1ns using a frequency comb |
| Amount | £138,976 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10010210 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | Novo Nordisk Exploratory Synergy Programme |
| Amount | 5,000,000Â kr. (DKK) |
| Organisation | Novo Nordisk |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Denmark |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 05/2024 |
| Description | PHASE-ZERO |
| Amount | £181,609 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10012091 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Q-ACE 2 |
| Amount | £128,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Space Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | QT Gravity for the Global Geodetic Reference Frame |
| Amount | £810,795 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X036359/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 02/2026 |
| Description | Quantum Sensing - Ground, and Aquifer Monitoring for Environmental Sciences (QS-GAMES) |
| Amount | £810,791 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X036480/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Quantum Technology - Mapping and map Integration for Buried Assets (QT-MIBA) |
| Amount | £499,261 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 133955 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Quantum sensors for end-of-line battery testing |
| Amount | £3,771,860 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 42186 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | Realising the potential of magnetoencephalography (MEG) using Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPMs) |
| Amount | £794,950 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_MR/X012263/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Ubiquitous radar networks for urban situational awareness |
| Amount | £160,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | DSTL0000005696 |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | Wee-g on a UAV |
| Amount | £179,854 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Dstlx-1000123543 |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2019 |
| End | 08/2021 |
| Description | Wee-g: A MEMS gravimeter for precision gravity surveying in Security and the Environment |
| Amount | £346,411 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/X508986/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 10/2024 |
| Description | Wee-g: a wideband Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Sensor for applications in Gravity Surveying and Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
| Amount | £99,960 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ST/V005499/1 |
| Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2025 |
| Description | Workshops with Aveillant on the quantum enabled staring radar |
| Amount | £12,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Birmingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Title | OPM analysis software |
| Description | Have developed suite of online, open-source analysis tools for OPM data. The packages are supported by bi-annual courses at the WCHN |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The software is now in use by multiple groups worldwide. |
| URL | https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm12/ |
| Title | A visualisation tool to model gravity/gravity gradient data |
| Description | This is an online calculator that facilitates visualisation of gravity or gravity gradient data measurements for different density anomalies using a forward model. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This simple online tool allows users to readily visualise the impact of various parameters on gravity data. This include instrument, survey and anomaly parameters. The main advantage of this intuitive online calculator is that it provides a platform for a wide range of users with little or no background in this field to understand how gravity data can be used. |
| URL | https://gravity-forward-model.herokuapp.com/forward-model |
| Title | Data for: "A Fast Algorithm for Calculation of Theo1" |
| Description | Supporting dataset for the article "A Fast Algorithm for Calculation of Theo1". A comparison of algorithms for the calculation of Theo1. The algorithms are supplied as individual c++ files. Data summarising the relative performance of the algorithms for different sizes of dataset is provided in a csv file. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/datasets/4403d30e-4257-4a4a-817f-f459e7465011 |
| Title | Interference suppression techniques for OPM-based MEG: Opportunities and challenges |
| Description | Examples of OPM data alongside analysis scripts for noise suppression and signal processing |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This work has provided a template and teaching tool for OPM analysis worldwide. |
| URL | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34933122/ |
| Title | Non-coherent network synchronisation error modeling |
| Description | Analytical model of the timing error due to clock offset and clock drift in a non-coherent staring radar network |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The model helps to predict the processing artefacts due to loss of synchronisation in a netowrk radar that can be used to post process the data to improvie target dection and localisation. It is also informing the potential advantages offerd by a fully coherent network. |
| Title | Osciallator Figure of Merit |
| Description | A procedure for empirical measurement for oscaillator Phase Noise and Alan Deviation measurements using bench test |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The data analysis provides a robust means for comparing results fron new generation of high performance oscillators with current state-of-art devices |
| Title | Staring radar data |
| Description | This is a data set of echoes recording using a special staring form of radar. The objects in the data include drones, birds, vehicles in a variety of settings and times of year. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data has been used to develop a CNN algorithm that differentiates birds and drones, although this is still being assessed. |
| Description | Field trials Queens University |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Field trials of the MEMS gravimeter |
| Collaborator Contribution | Field measurements of local gravity during acquifar draw down measurements |
| Impact | Field testing of the MEMS in an outdoor environment. This in turn informs our mechanical and electrical design of the device |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | M2 L |
| Organisation | M Squared Lasers Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | xxx |
| Collaborator Contribution | xxx |
| Impact | xxx |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | QT Hub Ph 2 |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Continued to support commercialisation activities of the UoN developed OPM MEG |
| Collaborator Contribution | Continued technical and commercial development of OPM MEG |
| Impact | On-going development of MEG. Spin-out company established. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Thales-Aveillant collaboration |
| Organisation | Thales Group |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have formalised a close collaboration with Thales-Aveillant. The company are supplying two radars that will be used on this award (although funded separately). The first of these two radars has been delivered and installed on campus at the university of Birmingham. The formalisation of the collaboration is part of the contract to purchase the two radars and has already enabled joint experimental trials, sharing of data and general aspects of know-how. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monthly meetings are held with the Thales-Aveillant CTO at which exchanges of various sorts are discussed. A workshop (funded separately) has been held at which both the Thales-Aveillant and Birmingham teams presented on drone-bird classification and embryonic activity around cognitive signal processing concepts. Further workshops are planned. |
| Impact | The closeness of the collaboration has resulted in a successful proposal to fund research into classification techniques - reported in "further funding". |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | University of Cambridge Collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaborate on ideas and data sharing on detection and tracking of difficult targets |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cambridge University Sginal Process Group are working on intent prediction tracking algorithms that is highly relevant to the stating radar development undertaken at University of Birmingham and can extend the algorthm work on surveillance of difficult targets |
| Impact | Initial MOU established and University of Birmingham will support the cambrsige group with data for two research studies funded externally. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | University of Copenhagen collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Copenhagen |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Expertise on optical magnetometers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise on quantum physics (by partners from the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) and biomedicine/cardiology (by partners from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Dep. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen) |
| Impact | Exchange of knowledge on experimental quantum physics, optical magnetometry and cardiology. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | University of Nottingham - Ultra Electronics Collaboration |
| Organisation | Ultra Electronics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | University of Nottingham contributions: sharing of technical knowledge, numerical simulations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ultra Electronics contributions: sharing of technical knowledge, sharing of data |
| Impact | Outputs: Joint funding applications. Sharing of technical knowledge, 3 months placement of PhD student. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Young Epilepsy/ Great Ormond St Hospital/ National Hospital/ Nottingham |
| Organisation | Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | We have been working closely with clinical (Young Epilepsy, Great Ormond St. Hospital, The National Hospital) , academic (University of Nottingham) and industrial (Quspin Ltd, Cerca, Magnetic shields Ltd) to establish OPM technology for diagnosis and pre-surgical planning in epilepsy. We have been working with adults with epilepsy at UCL (and the National Hospital) and now we (with the partnership) are working to integrate this technology into the GOSH clinical pipeline for paediatric epilepsy surgery. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had a long-standing collaboration with Quspin and Magnetic shields who have developed novel sensors and shielding solutions respectively. Cerca have just installed a 128 channel paediatric OPM system at Young Epilepsy. The University of Nottingham have developed novel active shielding solutions and have proven the YE system by running the first adult cohort. |
| Impact | Numerous Publications Public engagement workshops/ videos Training of healthcare professionals Industrial collaboration Multi-disciplinary: physics, medicine, biology. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Young Epilepsy/ Great Ormond St Hospital/ National Hospital/ Nottingham |
| Organisation | Magnetic Shields Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have been working closely with clinical (Young Epilepsy, Great Ormond St. Hospital, The National Hospital) , academic (University of Nottingham) and industrial (Quspin Ltd, Cerca, Magnetic shields Ltd) to establish OPM technology for diagnosis and pre-surgical planning in epilepsy. We have been working with adults with epilepsy at UCL (and the National Hospital) and now we (with the partnership) are working to integrate this technology into the GOSH clinical pipeline for paediatric epilepsy surgery. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had a long-standing collaboration with Quspin and Magnetic shields who have developed novel sensors and shielding solutions respectively. Cerca have just installed a 128 channel paediatric OPM system at Young Epilepsy. The University of Nottingham have developed novel active shielding solutions and have proven the YE system by running the first adult cohort. |
| Impact | Numerous Publications Public engagement workshops/ videos Training of healthcare professionals Industrial collaboration Multi-disciplinary: physics, medicine, biology. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Young Epilepsy/ Great Ormond St Hospital/ National Hospital/ Nottingham |
| Organisation | National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | We have been working closely with clinical (Young Epilepsy, Great Ormond St. Hospital, The National Hospital) , academic (University of Nottingham) and industrial (Quspin Ltd, Cerca, Magnetic shields Ltd) to establish OPM technology for diagnosis and pre-surgical planning in epilepsy. We have been working with adults with epilepsy at UCL (and the National Hospital) and now we (with the partnership) are working to integrate this technology into the GOSH clinical pipeline for paediatric epilepsy surgery. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had a long-standing collaboration with Quspin and Magnetic shields who have developed novel sensors and shielding solutions respectively. Cerca have just installed a 128 channel paediatric OPM system at Young Epilepsy. The University of Nottingham have developed novel active shielding solutions and have proven the YE system by running the first adult cohort. |
| Impact | Numerous Publications Public engagement workshops/ videos Training of healthcare professionals Industrial collaboration Multi-disciplinary: physics, medicine, biology. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Young Epilepsy/ Great Ormond St Hospital/ National Hospital/ Nottingham |
| Organisation | Quspin Inc |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We have been working closely with clinical (Young Epilepsy, Great Ormond St. Hospital, The National Hospital) , academic (University of Nottingham) and industrial (Quspin Ltd, Cerca, Magnetic shields Ltd) to establish OPM technology for diagnosis and pre-surgical planning in epilepsy. We have been working with adults with epilepsy at UCL (and the National Hospital) and now we (with the partnership) are working to integrate this technology into the GOSH clinical pipeline for paediatric epilepsy surgery. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had a long-standing collaboration with Quspin and Magnetic shields who have developed novel sensors and shielding solutions respectively. Cerca have just installed a 128 channel paediatric OPM system at Young Epilepsy. The University of Nottingham have developed novel active shielding solutions and have proven the YE system by running the first adult cohort. |
| Impact | Numerous Publications Public engagement workshops/ videos Training of healthcare professionals Industrial collaboration Multi-disciplinary: physics, medicine, biology. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Young Epilepsy/ Great Ormond St Hospital/ National Hospital/ Nottingham |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have been working closely with clinical (Young Epilepsy, Great Ormond St. Hospital, The National Hospital) , academic (University of Nottingham) and industrial (Quspin Ltd, Cerca, Magnetic shields Ltd) to establish OPM technology for diagnosis and pre-surgical planning in epilepsy. We have been working with adults with epilepsy at UCL (and the National Hospital) and now we (with the partnership) are working to integrate this technology into the GOSH clinical pipeline for paediatric epilepsy surgery. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had a long-standing collaboration with Quspin and Magnetic shields who have developed novel sensors and shielding solutions respectively. Cerca have just installed a 128 channel paediatric OPM system at Young Epilepsy. The University of Nottingham have developed novel active shielding solutions and have proven the YE system by running the first adult cohort. |
| Impact | Numerous Publications Public engagement workshops/ videos Training of healthcare professionals Industrial collaboration Multi-disciplinary: physics, medicine, biology. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Young Epilepsy/ Great Ormond St Hospital/ National Hospital/ Nottingham |
| Organisation | Young Epilepsy |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have been working closely with clinical (Young Epilepsy, Great Ormond St. Hospital, The National Hospital) , academic (University of Nottingham) and industrial (Quspin Ltd, Cerca, Magnetic shields Ltd) to establish OPM technology for diagnosis and pre-surgical planning in epilepsy. We have been working with adults with epilepsy at UCL (and the National Hospital) and now we (with the partnership) are working to integrate this technology into the GOSH clinical pipeline for paediatric epilepsy surgery. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had a long-standing collaboration with Quspin and Magnetic shields who have developed novel sensors and shielding solutions respectively. Cerca have just installed a 128 channel paediatric OPM system at Young Epilepsy. The University of Nottingham have developed novel active shielding solutions and have proven the YE system by running the first adult cohort. |
| Impact | Numerous Publications Public engagement workshops/ videos Training of healthcare professionals Industrial collaboration Multi-disciplinary: physics, medicine, biology. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Title | GRAVITY GRADIOMETER |
| Description | The disclosure relates to a gravity gradiometer including a pair of magneto-optical traps for measuring a gravity gradient. A cold atom gravity gradiometer system includes comprising: first and second magneto-optical traps, each having a plurality of mirrored surfaces arranged to reflect an incident laser beam to trap respective first and second cold atom clouds separated from each other by a separation distance; an optical subsystem arranged to transmit a first laser beam in a first direction along a first longitudinal axis towards the first magneto-optical trap and a second laser beam in an opposite second direction along a second longitudinal axis towards the second magneto-optical trap, the second longitudinal axis being parallel to the first longitudinal axis. |
| IP Reference | US2020386906 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | This has enabled significant follow on funding and garnered interest from relevant industrial partners with a view to license for manufacture. |
| Title | OPTICAL FREQUENCY MANIPULATION |
| Description | An optical frequency manipulation using an optical subsystem configured to provide a modulated laser beam for interaction with an atomic sample. The optical system may include: an optical subsystem for producing a light beam, the optical subsystem having a laser source and an IQ modulator, wherein the IQ modulator is operable to modulate light from the laser source at a carrier frequency to produce modulated light having a single sideband at a sideband frequency; and a chamber for containing an atomic sample, wherein the optical subsystem is arranged to direct the light beam towards the chamber to interact with an atomic sample contained therein. |
| IP Reference | US2020395726 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2020 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | This patent application highlights a simple, efficient, robust and agile scheme to produce highly coherent laser beams for Raman atom interferometry. It can be extended for use in cold atom devices to produce necessary optical frequencies. |
| Title | Gravity data processing |
| Description | Software was developed to integrate with workflow by RSK to interpret gravity data |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | This software will support RSK with their workflow when interpreting gravity data. It will accelerate their data processing ability and hence make them more competitive compared to other survey companies. |
| Company Name | CERCA MAGNETICS LIMITED |
| Description | Cerca magnetics build and sell equipment for human brain imaging |
| Year Established | 2020 |
| Impact | Cerca magnetics have spread novel human brain imaging technology, developed in the UK, to labs worldwide. Sales to date (between company launch in Dec 2020 and 2nd March 2023 total £7.2M |
| Website | https://www.cercamagnetics.com/ |
| Company Name | DELTA G LIMITED |
| Description | Company has been founded to create a commercialised version of the the quantum gravity gradiometer that we created over the last 10 years of research. |
| Year Established | 2022 |
| Impact | We were awarded a £500k Innovate UK project to fund the first stage of commercial prototyping. We will be finalising our pre-seed funding raising within the next 3 weeks. |
| Company Name | Cerca Magnetics Ltd |
| Description | SME commercialising OPM MEG technology, developing OPM MEG systems for the research markets in the near term and driving the development of clinical systems for sale into the clinical market in the coming years. |
| Year Established | 2020 |
| Impact | First confirmed orders in excess of £1,000,000 achieved within 6 months of company creation. |
| Website | https://www.cercamagnetics.com/ |
| Description | AUKUS meeting with QT Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on quantum technology / future collaboration opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advanced Wave Technologies, Phil Blakelock |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Intro call with Phil Blakemore - gave briefing on quantum sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Affinity Enterprises Ltd (Devi Sohanta) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Talked about quantum sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Affinity Water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 15 Oct - Spoke with Jake Riggs, ?Director of Corporate Affairs and Communities about quantum sensing and leakage detection. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | American Association for the Advancement of Science 2021 (AAAS) - 8 Feb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Symposium, The Quantum Ecosystem: Innovation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://meetings.aaas.org/ |
| Description | Andrei Dragomir, Aquarktechnologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed spin-off idea with Andrei |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Article in The Sunday Times online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Newspaper article, too recent to measure impacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tech-that-sees-through-the-earth-could-help-build-cities-of-the-f... |
| Description | Australian and Canadian academic, industry and governmental delegations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Given tour of QT Hub labs, showcasing research and discussion on potential applications and collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | BAE - Andy Schofield, Technology Delivery Director on 23 Nov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Met with Andy Schofield, BAE's Technology Delivery Director to discuss Space strategy and quantum sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BEIS - Quantum Strategy Brainstorming session on 14 July |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Simon Bennett and I met online with Rachel Maze and her team to discuss ideas to contribute to the quantum strategy document. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BICOP2019 invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited presentation to present the work of the quantum technology hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 1 Sep - Simon Bennett and I met with Robin Yellow to discuss BP business use cases and applications for quantum and how QT sensors can support relationship going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BP Webinar "An introduction to quantum sensors" on 10 Nov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Murray Reed, CEO of QLM and I gave presentations on potential of quantum sensing in a 2 part webinar for BP, followed by a Q&A session. I provided an introduction to field of quantum sensing and Murray described a start up case study of quantum methane sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | BT Tommy Flowers Network Virtual Conference 12-15 Oct |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk on day 4 of conference, 'Let's get Physical' on Quantum Day 15 Oct |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blog for Quantum City Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Created a Blog for the Quantum Communication Hub website and the Quantum City Website explaining how a civil engineer ended up working with quantum physicists and using quantum technology sensors. The idea was to ensure others to engage with quantum technologies even if at first sight they did not have the appropriate background. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.quantumcommshub.net/blog/an-interview-with-a-civil-engineer-in-quantum-professor-nicole-... |
| Description | Briefing presentation for MOD CSA and DST (Australia) Chief Scientist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | An invited seminar to provide a briefing to the DST Chief Scientist (Australia) and MOD CSA, and wider team, on the current status of quantum technology within the UK MOD programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Briefing to ARPA-E |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Briefing on gravity sensors and quantum sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007,2022 |
| Description | CLEO Pacific Rim 2020 on 4 August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk - Quantum Sensor Applications Developed within the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cqc2t.org/event/cleo-pacific-rim-2020/ |
| Description | Call with NASA/JPL and industry partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Performing a joint study of a quantum gravity gradiometer technology demonstration concept and would like to engage with UK in exploring potential partnership for this demo and future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Chaired workshop on timing and timing network applications of quantum technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of quantum hub activities and end user needs, capturing views on priorities and interests from industry participants. This led to plans for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Comic/Graphic novel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A comic book/graphic novel illustrating metrology and atomic clocks was drawn up by members of the University group and a keen artist from another school within the university. The comic was disseminated in print at one of the quantum showcase events and is available online at http://quantumclocks.the-comic.org/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | http://quantumclocks.the-comic.org/ |
| Description | Department for International Trade's Developing through Sector Knowledge event on 21 Sep |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to participate in Department for International Trade's annual Developing through Sector Knowledge (DSK) event, purpose of which is to equip overseas commercial staff with the highest level of knowledge and awareness of the UK Technology offer so they bring in the best high value investments and export opportunities. Participated in two Q&A session focused on Emerging Technologies, covering Quantum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Discussion with CERN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CERN thinking of organising an event targeted at UK companies to present technologies that have recently identified could be of interest in the quantum domain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discussion with VC investment group (London) on QT Spinout activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on investment processes and opportunities for quantum technologies, informing internal roadmaps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discussion with defence community regarding applications of quantum sensing in maritime area |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on potential uses of quantum sensing in maritime applications, identifying barriers and opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Discussions with alumni groups on physics and quantum sensing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with a group of alumni, including discussions on latest news in physics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr Glenn Wells, Director of Strategy & Planning, UKRI Medical Research Council on 11 Nov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Intro meeting with Glenn Wells re quantum technology and healthcare. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Engagement Activities - Australian and Canadian academic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Australian and Canadian academic, industry and governmental delegation visits to the National Buried Infrastructure Facility to find out the scope of research available and the facilities on offer. A talk on research at NBIF was provided by Nicole Metje, followed by a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement Activities - Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A delegation of visitors from the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) department visited the National Buried Infrastructure Facility on 12/10/22 and received a talk from Nicole Metje on the scope of research available at NBIF and also had a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement Activities - Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A delegation of Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) visitors visited the National Buried Infrastructure Facility and received a talk from Nicole Metje on the scope of research available at NBIF and also had a tour of the facility. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement Activities - Innovate UK (IUK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A delegation of Innovate UK (IUK) visitors visited the National Buried Infrastructure Facility on 06/10/22 and received a talk from Nicole Metje on the scope of research available at NBIF and also had a tour of the facility, which included a wee-g demo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with British Geological Survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | discussion on potential uses of quantum technology in environmental sciences, leading to successful pursuit of collaborative projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with MEMS sensor development company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on MEMS and Quantum sensors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with QT Spinout on potential collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on potential collaborative activities in compact quantum sensing, leading to successful collaborative proposal and project funded by Innovate UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with Telecom company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Telecom company on use cases for quantum sensors, leading to future planned activity in modelling to understand requirements in detail. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with agri-tech industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | discussion on quantum sensor applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with an international space agency on future collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on roadmap for space applications of quantum sensors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with children and carers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | We have been working closely with Young Epilepsy, parents and children to understand how to improve the brain scanning experience and how to address any anxieties that might arise. They are currently producing a report which will inform the next stages of development of clinical systems and procedures. The feedback from this project has been invaluable, helping us to improve not only the design of the tasks, helmets and room, but also directly address key concerns of the children and families. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | Engagement with companies from the Midlands on cyber and quantum technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Working group meeting to discuss areas of interest and synergy within the Midlands, leading to plans for future discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Engagement with defence company on marine applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on marine applications of quantum sensors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with engineering company on potential spin-outs in quantum technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Seminar and work group meeting on commercialisation readiness of cold atom quantum sensors, leading to interest in collaborative spin-out development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with investor group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement to discuss uses and commercialisation of quantum sensors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Engagement with mining industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on mining applications of quantum sensors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | GCHQ webinar- Drone classification using radar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk on the challenges and potential of drone classification using radar systems, as part of a GCHQ webinar series. The talk received positive feedback during the presentation and sparked useful discussions on the ways forward in the future, some of which involve the use of quantum-enabled radar. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Guest Speaker at Luxembourg University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk entitled Ultra-low Phase Noise Quantum Enabled Networked Staring Radar Testbed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Guest speaker at IET/IOP regional meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented the first in-person talk at a region meeting of IET/IOP. Presented the latest research on Quantum-enabled radar. Talk was followed by an engaging Q/A session and the topic was very well received by the audiance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | IET Talk on quantum-enabled radar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A talk on quantum-enabled radar and the possibilities it offers was delivered for the IET community in February '22. The audience was members of the IET. The talk was well received and sparked discussion on this technology at the end of the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Inivted Speaker to focus day on passive network radar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Reported status of the latest development of the quantum-enabled networked radar test-bed to the acedamic research comminity. The aim was to inform the state-of-art to experts on passive and network radar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Inivted Speaker to seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited seminar to Goverment establishment to inform on the Quantum-enabled network radar demonstrator system and the future direction of the research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Inivted speaker at London Metropolitan University Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk entitled Urban Surveillance of Drones and Birds with Staring Radar to London Metropolitan University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Inside QT Europe Online 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave QT talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Institute of Physics (IOP) webinar on 27 May |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a talk to IOP community "Quantum Sensors, from fundamental science to technology" to showcase QT Hub research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Institute of Physics - Public Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the 2nd February 2021, I gave a public presentation with the title 'Revealing the Unseen - Potential of Quantum Technology Gravity Sensors - A Civil Engineer's Perspective. It sparked several questions about the usability of the QT instruments in a number of different applications from civil engineering to archaeology. The presentation lasted 45 minutes with Q&A after. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://events.iop.org/revealing-unseen-potential-quantum-technology-gravity-sensors-civil-engineers... |
| Description | Institute of Physics evening lecture: 'Quantum Sensing - A New Window to the Underground' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Joint presentation with an undergraduate student, providing an introduction on quantum sensing to a general audience. Led to audience members stating an increased interest in pursuing science in their future education. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.iop.org/events/quantum-sensing-new-window-underground#gref |
| Description | Intelligence Community Academic Research Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online conference, based in the USA, to discuss the worldwide work of the Intelligence Community fellowships. Featuring researchers from around the world but specifically those based in UK and US institutions (academic, governmental and military). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Intelligence Community Academic Research Symposium 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online event for researchers within the intelligence communities of UK, USA and Australia to present their work to others from within the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Internal BGS gravity worksho[p |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Internal workshop to assess current and future microgravity research and applications at the British Geological Survey, including quantum sensors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Interview for Physics World Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave an interview alongside three colleagues to discuss a recent publication (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04315-3) and the pathway to commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/cz/podcast/measuring-gravity-outdoors-using-a-quantum-gas/id1400686733?i=... |
| Description | Interview with Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Adam Green as part of thought leadership articles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interview with Graham Bell on behalf of Uni of Cambridge as part of study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed as part of study on the extent to which the strategic use of intellectual property facilitates or hinders collaborative innovation, interested in the frameworks of the programme from an intellectual property management perspective especially in relation to industry partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Interview with Physics World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Worked with Mike Holynski - Special article on vacuum systems - requested in relation to the nature paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interview with research consultancy reporting to UK government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Commissioned to produce a report describing the UK's quantum sensing capability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Interviewed for Quantum MOOC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Share insights for new course for the edX platform called "Quantum Technologies for Decision Makers" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro Call with international agricultural charity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Very interested in remote sensing to allow data collection that will be useful for farmer decision making e.g. potentially measure moisture levels within soil / even uncover underground water courses. Led to further introductions within sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro call with agri-tech company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interested in potential of imaging sensors to enhance the performance / development of harvesting machine and allow it to be used for other functions away from harvesting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro call with international petrochemical company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interested in quantum gravity sensing. Have case related to land subsidence due to solution mining and have been monitoring the evolution of these cavities using sonar,. Very interested in quantum gravity sensor technology to evaluate the possibility of carrying out a test of the technology in Brazil. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro call with international tunnel engineering company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Involved in tunnel construction in Paris - interested in gravity sensing for void detection below tunnel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro call with major online retailer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Joined on call by QT Hub director and wanted an update on quantum sensors and possible applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro call with mining company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Discussed potential applications for quantum sensors, in particular in relation to de-mining |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Intro call: with agri-tech company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Spoke to an agronomist and discussed feasibility of potential field trials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Investment Discussion with Angels from the Newable Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Newable is a private venture capital entity, we presented the business model and product of the university spin out company seeking investment from individual angel investors form this group. This resulted in an investment commitment to the company from both the angel investors and the Newable VC fund. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Investment Discussion with Bristol Private Equity Club |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Bristol Private Equity Club are a group of angel investors, we presented the business model and product of the university spin out company seeking investment. This resulted in an investment commitment to the company. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Investment Discussion with Quantum Exponential |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Quantum Exponential are a private venture capital fund, we presented the business model and product of the university spin out company seeking investment. This resulted in an investment commitment to the company. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Investment Discussion with Science Creates Ventures |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Science Creates Ventures are a private venture capital fund, we presented the business model and product of the university spin out company seeking investment. This resulted in an investment commitment to the company. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited Lecture - University of Texas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Online lecture to people in the engineering department at UoT based on the ICARS talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited Presentation at Pipelines Industry Guild |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk was given to the PIG meeting in front of ~30 people on 'How Science & Research is contributing to Decarbonising Infrastructure Construction' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited briefing to the board of the Geospatial Commission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of quantum sensors applications and perspective on future of underground inspection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited presentation to provide briefing to MTC Programme Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Briefing on quantum sensing and the activities of the quantum hub, leading to discussions on future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk at BQIT22 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented activities in gravity gradiometry and of the QT Hub, led to new ideas and collaborative discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/qet-labs/documents/BQIT22%20full%20programme.pdf |
| Description | Invited talk at Harwell Q-Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | presentation to industry and academics, leading to discussions on commercialisation and future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Invited talk at Joint Symposium on Quantum Technologies (NPL) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on quantum sensing activities in the quantum hub, with a focus on gravity gradiometry, leading to requests for further information, and discussions on use cases and commercialisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ieee-ukandireland.org/event/joint-symposium-national-physical-laboratory-joint-symposium... |
| Description | Invited talk to UCL neuroscience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Inivited talk to UCL neuroscience forum. Described the potential and progress made using OPM technology from both neuroscience and clinical perspective |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited to exhibit to UKRI Executive Committee at Porton Down |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited by MOD to discuss our work within the MOD quantum technology project, and show one of our demonstrators from this, to the committee. This involved discussing the current status national and international status, and the linkages between different projects from the various funding bodies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited to provide expert input to Innovation Diologue of the German Federal Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Interview to provide expert input to inform the development of the Innovation Dialogue of the German Federal Government, relating to quantum technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Jack Bennett, Hamamatsu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 16 Oct - Simon Bennett and I met with Jack Bennett who wanted to introduce qCMOS Camera. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | John Owen, Border Consulting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 30 June - Simon Bennett and I spoke with John Owen to discuss status of quantum clocks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Key Note Speaker at IET Radar Conference Edinburgh UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Key note speaker for talk entitled Urban Surveillance of Drones and Birds with Staring Radar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote at CEOI-EO conference (online) on 24 June |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk 'Quantum Technology for a Future Gravity Mission'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Kongsberg (Richard Mills) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 28 Jan - spoke to Richard Mills following introduction from Ralph Manchester, Technical Partner at Royal IHC. Richard wanted to know more about quantum technology development in the UK, especially the potential use in detecting submerged pipelines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Leonardo (John Innes) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 25 Jan - met with John Innes, VP Technology Innovation at Leonardo to catch up on quantum sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lichfield Science and Engineering Society lecture on 11 Feb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk - What can quantum sensors do for you? My PA received the attached following the evening lecture: Dear Teresa Many thanks to you and Kai for making last night's lecture possible. Please give him my thanks for a fascinating and stimulating talk packed full of exciting ideas that the team are working on. His infectious enthusiasm held an audience of 105 devices which we always estimate will have two participants on about 25% of the devices so around 130 society members. We were all spared a journey in the freezing cold to the theatre but missed the opportunity to invite Kai for a pre lecture dinner. Best wishes, stay safe Irene |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Mark Casey, Head of Research, Design & Innovation, UK Hydrographic Office on 23 Nov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Simon Bennett and I talked to Mark Casey re gravity sensors and underwater navigation. Interested to know more about needs of UKHO and how best the QT Hub in Sensors and Timing might be able to interact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Executive Director for Economic Development, Birmingham City Council on 11 March |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Met with Executive Director for Economic Development to discuss potential of quantum technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MottMacDonald Venutures (Stuart Cowie and Jon Rains) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 2 Feb - Simon Bennett and I had a follow up meeting with Jon Rains and Stuart Cowie - discussed underground sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MottMacDonald Venutures (Stuart Cowie and Jon Rains) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 19 Jan - Simon Bennett and I met virtually with Jon Rains and Stuart Cowie to continue discussion started before Christmas in regards to navigation, potentially shipping and even aircraft and existing and planned infrastructure, including railways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MottMacDonald Venutures (Stuart Cowie) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 17 Dec - had an intro meeting with Stuart Cowie, Integrated Transport Digital & Innovation to discuss mass market opportunities for quantum sensing in regards to navigation and existing and planned infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | NGA IC Postdoc Speaker Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency staff on the topic of Gravity Portals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National QT Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Had stand at Showcase, opportunity to highlight potential applications for quantum sensors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | National Student Space Conference (NSSC 2021) 6-7 March |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Event organised by students for students. I pre-recorded a talk and participated in a live video call on 7th. Link attached as not accepted below. https://ukseds.org/aurora/?p=nssc2021. Video available after the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6aWbOozW1g&t=12252s |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | New Scientist Live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public engagement event organised by the New Scientist Magazine. We presented the new demo system as part of the "Quantum City" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://live.newscientist.com/ |
| Description | Non-acoustic Leakage detection - UKWIR workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to around 20 pipeline practitioners on non-acoustic leakage detection including quantum technology gravity gradiometers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Optical cavities could be key to next generation interferometers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blog regarding Optical cavities could be key to next generation interferometers article, Nourshargh, R., Lellouch, S., Hedges, S. et al. Circulating pulse cavity enhancement as a method for extreme momentum transfer atom interferometry. Commun Phys 4, 257 (2021). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/from-the-university-of-birmingham-uk-via-phys-org-op... |
| Description | Paul Monks, BEIS Chief Scientific Advisor on 18 Feb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Simon Bennett and I briefed BEIS Scientific Advisor on the research being carried out by the QT Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Photonik Tage Berlin on 8 October |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participated in Q&A session focused on Emerging Technologies, covering Quantum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Poster presentation, S Lellouch, ("Circulating pulse cavity enhancement as a method for extreme momentum transfer atom interferometry") at the CoolMe conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This helped build links and inform students and academics of new directions for atomic physics in cavities, and has inspired onward discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation and exhibition to year 10 school students, as part of University of Birmingham summer school |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Speaking and exhibiting to a cohort of school students to increase their interest in STEM subjects, including presentation on new developments in quantum sensing, and exhibiting quantum sensing hardware, and presentations by undergraduate students. This led to several students saying the event had changed their view from physics being an 'abstract' subject to something that everyone could participate in. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation to UKCCSRC on feasibility of quantum sensing for CCS applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to UKCCSRC on outputs from a feasibility study on the use of quantum sensors in CCS applications, leading to requests for further information and ideas of wider use cases. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | QT Hub Annual Review (Research Board) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A very brief (~5 minute) talk to the QT hub research board including a virtual tour of the lab activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | QT National Showcase 2020 - 6 Nov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk showcasing work of the QT Hub. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | QT National Showcase Nov 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A webinar was conducted about how quantum technology gravity sensors has an impact on geophysical surveying with particular application in (civil) engineering. This was followed by a Q&A. The webinar involved Nicole Metje, Mike Holynski, Giles Hammond, Paul Wilkinson, Caitlin Percy, Gillian Marshall |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Quantum Engineering-Timing Workshop, GCHQ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Quantum workshop keynote |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Quantum Sensors in Navigation webinar. Co-hosted with Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) on 10 August |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave talk. Joined by Roger McKinley (IUK) and George Tuckwell - talks posted on YouTube RIN channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://rin.org.uk/page/Webinars |
| Description | Quantum Technologies Networking and ISCF-Consortia Building Workshop. 19 January 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 19 January 2022. Dr Bennett and Prof. Bongs created and hosted an online networking event using the gather.town platform to allow consortia to self-assemble around posters of potential research ideas. The event was attended by an approximately equal number of industrial participants and academics from across the UK (not just QT Hub Sensing and Timing) plus representatives of RTOs, and government bodies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Quantum-enabled radar synchronisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk was delivered at the PCL Focus Day at Fraunhofer FHR in Germany. The talk discussed the potential of quantum oscillators to detect small slow moving targets, as well as their potential to synchronise radar networks with ultra-fine stability. The talk was attended and well-received by bi-/ and multi-static radar experts from academia and industry, and sparked follow-on discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAEng UK Intelligence Community Application Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Internal UoB webinar on the application process for the UKIC fellowship. Only very briefly covered my work, mostly covered the application process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | RAEng UKIC Webinar with IC reps |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An introductory talk with intelligence community representatives that have an interest in the use of gravity portals for border control. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Rick Robinson, Director Smart Places, Telecommunications & Digital Infrastructure at Jacobs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 11 Aug - Simon Bennett and I spoke with Rick Robinson about potential of quantum sensing for industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Roadmap for quantum technologies at CERN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Simon Bennett and I met online with Alberto Di Meglio and Amy Bilton. CERN have just started a 3 year Quantum Initiative and wish to align their programme to existing programmes. They wanted to understand more about UK Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Timing and explore if there might be opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Science Business on 9 Feb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed for comment by Eanna Kelly for Science Business article re European investment in QT. Link to article attached as not accepted in URL field https://sciencebusiness.net/news/france-and-germany-line-quantum-leap |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Seminar and exhibition for 'See the latest Quantum technology - Tomorrow's Transport World' a teach-in event for the Department for Transport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on quantum sensors, how they work, and potential future applications in transport |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Software/ Methods workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We run two courses per year to teach brain imaging methods and the use of the software developed and supported by our centre (SPM, statistical parametric mapping). This is the most widely used brain imaging package worldwide. We have now added lectures and workshops to support the new Optically Pumped Magnetometer (OPM) technology and the OPM-specific software with SPM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/course/ |
| Description | Talk at HEPP & APP Annual Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on applications for quantum sensors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at the 2022 Rail Live Conference in Malaga |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Nicole Metje gave a talk entitled 'A window into the ground: the future of asset management using quantum technology' at the 2022 rail live conference in Malaga sparkling many questions on the technology readiness levels of the technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.terrapinn.com/conference/rail-live/2022-speakers.stm |
| Description | Talk to a group of students from the University of Oxford on the Student Entrepreneurs Programme. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talked about quantum sensors, applications / start-ups - gave them an intro to Quantum Exponential re start-up funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk: IOP Online Legacy Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Quantum Technologies from Fundamental Science to Critical National Infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk: QT-FSP (Australia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Opportunities to utilise QT in the Mineral Resources domain. Gave talk on subterranean imaging/sensing using quantum technologies. - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk: SPIE Photonex 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session Chair -Quantum Technology: Driving Commercialisation of an Enabling Science III |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Technology Roadmap 5th May 2021 Industry Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 5th May 21. An online workshop was held to present, challenge and identify industry requirements, from supply chain and end-user, to help shape the direction and priorities of the QT Hub. Potential use cases within different research areas which will help accelerate the rollout and commercialisation of quantum sensors were presented and discussed. Synergies, field tests and data validation of advanced prototypes were explored. The QT Hub's sensor development and outlook for prototypes to expect in the field over the next 20 years were presented. Participants were selected individually to represent key industry sectors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The OPM collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
| Results and Impact | In partnership with Young Epilepsy, The OPM Collaboration set out to raise the voice of young people with epilepsy by co-designing key elements of a new brain scanning technology. This involved multiple workshops, several events (such as festivals/ summer fetes ) and a dedicated team of professionals working to engage with young people and their families. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2021,2023 |
| URL | https://engagement.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/projects/opm-collaboration/ |
| Description | Thomas Howe, BMT Defence and Security UK Ltd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Introduced to Thomas Howe by DSTL . Thomas was Royal Navy Specialist Navigator by trade and Chaired the NATO PNT Policy Group. Interested in quantum sensing and navigation, especially to incorporating into navigation systems to provide some resilience in the face of a GNSS outage |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Tour for regional growth agency and colleagues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tour and discussions on activities within the West Midlands, leading to plans for future discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Towards quantum technology for borehole gravity sensors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An article in Civil Engineering Surveyor discussing our progress in quantum technology sensing, contributed by Jamie Vovrosh and Dan Boddice from the research team (QT Hub, Gravity Pioneer, Gravity Delve). This has helped connect to end users and industry in the supply chain for borehole applications and other areas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ces.pagelizard.co.uk/webviewer/#cesdecember2020/towards_quantum_technology_for_borehole_gravi... |
| Description | UK consultancy advising government on quantum capability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Actively engaging with industry and academia to help them assess the UK Atomic Clock manufacturing capability and provide a comparison with 'Rest-of-the World' capability. This will inform Defence and wider Government around future Timing options for the UK when making critical decisions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | UKIC Our Winning Proposals Article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with a journalist from a research news site to give an overview of the application I wrote for UKIC. Talked about both the project and the application process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-insight-2021-3-our-winning-proposals-get-the-int... |
| Description | University of Birmingham Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Open day for prospective students and their parents to see the university and speak with academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Virtual Talk at Tongji University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk entitled 'Revealing the Unseen - Potential of Quantum Technology Gravity Sensors' was presented to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academic staff to share the knowledge and progress to date into quantum technology sensors. Approximately 40 academics attended sparking a lively discussion on how quantum technology sensors work and what potential it has in civil engineering. Further questions a have resulted from this initial engagement including an invitation to Tongji. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Virtual talk to the Top Scientist Webinar Series Graduate School, Universitas Hasanuddin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An invited talk was given entitled 'Buried Infrastructure Monitoring - Existing and New Sensing Technologies' to around 70 attendees with a range of backgrounds. The talk highlighted research over many years on assessing the subsurface and buried assets including the introduction of novel quantum technology gravimeter and gravity gradiometer sensors. The research covered a range of different examples of sensor development and novel use of existing sensing technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit by Department for International Trade |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A delegation from the Department for International Trade visited NBIF in March 2022. They were very interested in the potential opportunities which NBIF has opened up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit from Aerospace company to UoB laboratories, to provide briefing and update on quantum sensors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit and tour of QT Hub laboratories, including discussion of progress along roadmaps and future next steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit from BEIS and DfT to QT Hub |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Given tour and QT Hub labs and discussions about research / applications of quantum sensors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit from Canadian High Commissioner to the QT Hub as part of visit to university |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave tours of the QT Hub labs and discussed potential applications for quantum sensors as part of a wider visit to the university. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit from a major aerospace and defence company to the QT HUb |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Tour of QT Hub labs and radar, discussed potential applications for quantum sensors and how industry can engage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit to SME, STL Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Engagement between UoB and STL Tech in order to discuss commercialisation of quantum technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit to UoB: Greg Clark, Chair of Science & Technology Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Gave tour of QT labs followed by a National Accelerator for Quantum Sensors (NAQS) presentation including input from industry representatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Visit to a RAF Base |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Visit to obtain feedback from operational team on the real-world usefulness of our radar data in air surveillance as the up coming Commonwealth Games might be an opportunity to do this with a practical example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit: IUK and Highways Agency |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Viewed QT Hub labs and discussed current research, follwed by NAQS presentation and industry roundtable. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar for GCHQ: Gravity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Holynksi and colleagues presented a webinar on QT Hub gravity sensing research. This formed part of the QT Sensing and Timing series of talks for CGHQ. The material presented across all talks has been collated and is being circulated more widely within GCHQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar for GCHQ: Magnetometry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | QT Hub colleagues from Strathclyde presented a webinar on QT Hub magnetometry research. This formed part of the QT Sensing and Timing series of talks for CGHQ. The material presented across all talks has been collated and is being circulated more widely within GCHQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar for GCHQ: Navigation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Bongs and colleagues presented a webinar on QT Hub navigation research. This formed part of the QT Sensing and Timing series of talks for CGHQ. The material presented across all talks has been collated and is being circulated more widely within GCHQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar for GCHQ: Network Radar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jahangir and colleagues presented a webinar on QT Hub network radar research. This formed part of the QT Sensing and Timing series of talks for CGHQ. The material presented across all talks has been collated and is being circulated more widely within GCHQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar for GCHQ: Timing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Singh and colleagues presented a webinar on QT Hub timing research. This formed part of the QT Sensing and Timing series of talks for CGHQ. The material presented across all talks has been collated and is being circulated more widely within GCHQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Webinar for GCHQ: Underpinning Technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Paul and colleagues presented a webinar on QT Hub underpinning technologies research. This formed part of the QT Sensing and Timing series of talks for CGHQ. The material presented across all talks has been collated and is being circulated more widely within GCHQ. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Wenming Ji, Oxford Cardiomox Ltd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 20 July - talked about quantum sensing. Joined by Julian Moore. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A workshop was held, attended by representatives of the Thales-Aveillant company and University of Birmingham academics, research fellows and PhD researchers. The main objective was to help build the relationship between the industrial and academic reams by creating a more complete awareness of each others goals and capabilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop -Forefront Optical Lattice Clocks: from Curiosity-Driven Science to Real-World Applications on 3 Dec |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Japan- Europe workshop organised by Prof Katori, gave presentation - link below as not accepted in URL field https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/foee/event/setevt_202011241144546978450056.html |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Zurich Instruments AG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 19 Nov - Spoke with Tobias Thiele and Jelena Trbovic. Wanted to learn more about potential of quantum sensing for industrial application. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | discussion with a major engineering and design company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Joined by the QT Hub director and discussed opportunities for collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | intro call with scientific research consultancy to government and defence industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interested in update on quantum navigation system |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | invited seminar at Northumbria University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on quantum sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |