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A selection of case studies
of 1851 award holders and news

Sir Misha Black Awards 2020 Recipients Announced

The Engineers: Re-engineering the Future

Exchange of chemical messages between primitive cells

Dr Claudia Bonfio
Research Fellow 2020 

Cosmic Ray Neutron Detectors for Smart Agriculture/Civil Engineering Monitors

Dr John Patrick Stowell
Research Fellow 2020 

Advancing main-bearing science for wind and tidal turbines

Dr Edward Hart
Brunel Fellow 2020 

End-to-end optical training of neural networks

Dr Xianxin Guo
Research Fellow 2020 

Understanding the past to predict the future

Ms Hannah Wauchope
Research Fellow 2020 

Reshaping the quantum vacuum for photon sources

Dr Niclas Westerberg
Research Fellow 2020 

Understanding strongly-correlated matter using quantum computers

Dr Adam Smith
Research Fellow 2020 

Geometric approach to optimisation in quantum thermodynamics

Dr Harry Miller
Research Fellow 2020 

Addressing the Future of Plastics with CO2 Based Polymers

Dr Alex Plajer
Research Fellow 2020

British companies receive R&D boost from Prince Albert’s Royal Commission amid global uncertainty

Remote Plasma Sputtering of High Quality Thermochromic Thin Films for Energy Conservation

Joseph Lawton
Industrial Fellow 2020

Can you keep borrowing from future generations? A green biomimetic method for controlling chirality

Daniella Cheang
Industrial Fellow 2020

Flow versus batch chemistry in the safe manufacture of explosives

Declan Williams
Industrial Fellow 2020

Discovery of novel antimicrobial peptides to combat current and emerging superbugs

Jack Kay
Industrial Fellow 2020

Conducting polymer electrodes for interfacing with the brain

Poppy Oldroyd
Industrial Fellow 2020

Development of a monitoring system using guided waves for nuclear components

Euan Rodgers
Industrial Fellow 2020

Causal modelling of type 2 diabetes and multi-organ dysfunction through quantitative magnetic resonance imaging: Applying Bayesian-networks

Tom Waddell
Industrial Fellow 2020

Satellite-enabled early warning system for geotechnical structures

Maral Bayaraa
Industrial Fellow 2020

Metal to Ceramic Interfacial Engineering for Armour Applications

Sophie Duong
Industrial Fellow 2020

Characterising genetic variants associated with pain to improve the clinical translation of novel therapies

Sam Bourne
Industrial Fellow 2020

The Great Exhibition at Home 2020 prize winners!

The Engineers: Re-Engineering the Future

BBC World Service 

Get Involved – Your Community. Our Technology

Kristof van der Fluit
Industrial Design Student 2019

Spree – (Preventing overuse injuries in running)

Lorenzo Spreafico
Industrial Design Student 2019

Habitate

Thomas Hartley
Industrial Design Student 2018

The Great Exhibition Virtual Tour

Take a 360 virtual tour around Hyde Park’s Crystal Palace of 1851 – from your sofa

The Tyre Collective

Hugo Richardson
Industrial Design Student 2018

Tastenation

Beren Kayali
Industrial Design Student 2019

ALLYN

Jeffrey Chow, Nadia Bassiri and Tom Pais
Industrial Design Students 2019, 2018 and 2019

Heart Restart

Claudia Maw and Aimee-Elisabeth Kyffin
Industrial Design Student 2018 and 2019

Saiga

Harry Barber
Industrial Design Student 2018

Flit Bike

Joe Sherwood
RAEng ERA Enterprise Fellow 2020

Message from HRH The Princess Royal

President of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

New ‘Great Exhibition at Home’ challenge

Digital education pack designed to inspire young innovators in wake of school shutdown

Sir Misha Black Awards

The Sir Misha Black Awards join 1851 Royal Commission to reinforce importance of design education to industry and society.

Four new Technical Teaching Fellowships awarded

Tales of the High Street

David Rudlin
Built Environment Fellowship 2019

Prof Wilfred Jefferies elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Dr Wilfried Jefferies
Overseas Scholar 1982 – 1985

Magneto-mechanical biomedicine for pain modulation and immuno-engineering

Dr Andy Tay Kah Ping
Research Fellow 2019 Brunel

Addressing diabetes: Glucose recognition with a bespoke molecular glove

Dr Keith Andrews
Research Fellow 2019

Funding awarded to young innovators by Prince Albert’s Royal Commission

Development of genetic tools for rhizosphere engineering

Dr Timothy Haskett
Research Fellow 2019

Characterising the cobalt delivery pathway for vitamin B12

Dr Tessa Young
Research Fellow 2019

Emergent electronic properties of strain tuned superconducting materials

Dr Luke Rhodes
Research Fellow 2019

Using machine learning to better diagnose COPD exacerbations

Bojidar Rangelov
Industrial Fellow 2019

Predicting tyre behaviour on different road surfaces

Alexander O’Neill
Industrial Fellow 2019

Predicting flooding effects with AI

Robert Rouse
Industrial Fellow 2019

Determining the boundary conditions of weld metal hydrogen cracking

Shaun Smart
Industrial Fellow 2019
ERA Foundation Fellow 2019

Fighting cancer with the patient’s own cells

Veronica Glyn
Industrial Fellow 2019

Improving liver cancer diagnoses through new MRI techniques

Elisabeth Pickles
Industrial Fellow 2019

Using light to speed up medicine development

Tatiana Rogova
Industrial Fellow 2019

Digitally detecting invasive species on ship hulls

Marie Dale
Industrial Fellow 2019

Diagram algebras via Soergel bimodules

Dr Amit Hazi
Research Fellow 2019

Synthesising treatments for multi-drug resistant cancers

Jack Sutro
Industrial Fellow 2019

Exploring nanostructured light absorbers: from optoelectronics to innovative photovoltaics

Dr Thomas Macdonald
Research Fellowship 2019

How invasive species transform a critical ecosystem function

Dr Benno Simmons
Research Fellowship 2019

The rise of animals: challenging Darwin’s dilemma

Dr Frances Dunn
Research Fellow 2019

The Great 2019 Exhibition Road Festival

Watch the video here.

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Dyson School celebrates support from The 1851 Royal Commission

Chip[s] Board

Rowan Minkley
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2019

mitt Wearables

Ben Lakey
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2019

RAB-Microfluidics

Surakat Kudehinbu
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2019

Cellul-air

Amos Timi Oyedeji
Industrial Design Student 2017

re:flex

James Fraser
Industrial Design Student 2017

Bioquell UK

How an Industrial Fellowship gave this SME a new commercial perspective

TDeltaS

Enhancing R&D through Industrial Fellowships

The Shelter Schema: Designing for Displacement

Jennifer George
Design Fellow 2018

Colossal barocaloric effects in liquid crystals

Dr Guillaume Nataf
Research Fellow 2018

Wootzano

Atif Syed
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2018

New design principles for biomimetic photosynthesis

Dr Susannah Bourne-Worster
Research Fellow 2018

Micromechanical modelling of rock fracture: towards energy-efficient mining

Dr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda
Research Fellow 2018

‘Elgin Reptiles’: the origins of the modern terrestrial fauna

Dr Davide Foffa
Research Fellow 2018

Investigation of efficient next-generation photo-electrochemical devices

Dr Christoph Schnedermann
Research Fellow 2018

Activation of nitrogen using alkaline earth metals

Dr Ryan Schwamm
Research Fellow 2018

Modelling and inference in single-cell RNA sequencing

Dr Aden Forrow
Research Fellow 2018

Improving the reliability of low cost radar systems

Euan Ward
Industrial Fellow 2018

Improving the distribution of internal radiotherapy in tumours

Jonathan Vince
Industrial Fellow 2018

Helping autonomous ships talk to humans

Alex Raymond
Industrial Fellow 2018

Growing compound semiconductors for optical communications

Adam McKenzie
Industrial Fellows 2017
ERA Foundation Fellow 2017

Predicting fatigue in jet engines to make travel safer

Christopher Magazzeni
Industrial Fellow 2018

Using big data to classify antibodies and improve therapeutic drugs

Aleksandr Kovaltsuk
Industrial Fellow 2018

Machine learning models to understand consumer preferences

Adam Hornsby
Industrial Fellow 2018

Luminescent coatings for ultrahigh temperature measurements

Marta Ferran Marqués
Industrial Fellow 2018

Advanced gain materials for high energy, high average power lasers

Mariastefania De Vido
Industrial Fellow 2018

Predicting the degradation of polymer composites in marine environments

Jasmine Bone
Industrial Fellow 2018

Developing techniques to speed regenerative treatment

Ben Barnes
Industrial Fellow 2018

White blood cell ‘photocopier’ to reduce cost of next generation cancer therapies by 60%

Carlos Julià
Industrial Fellow 2018

Aergo

Hsin-Hua (Sheana) Yu
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2018

Zyba

Tara Massoudi
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2018

EngX

Jack Pearson
RAEng ERA Enterprise Fellow 2018

Voice Blox – getting your hands on language

Douglas Mann
Industrial Design Student 2016

Pluvo: A pollution solution that pays

Nick Hooton and Lewis Hornby
Industrial Design Students 2016

xHA: Learning to focus using your own breath

Andrea Pisa
Industrial Design Student 2017

 

 

Flare – Humanising Remote Communication

Robert Turner
Industrial Design Student 2016

Finite: A new composite material from desert sand

Hamza Oza
Industrial Design Student 2017

Sterilise: sterilising medical equipment in low-resource settings

Andrea Pisa
Industrial Design Student 2017

“Smart Mixing” – AI in live music systems

Ben Janes
Industrial Fellow 2017
ERA Foundation Fellow 2017

The regulatory and downstream effects of supplemental ketosis

David Dearlove
Industrial Fellow 2017

New reclamation technologies for the remanufacture of combustion engines

Sascha Ruggaber
Industrial Fellow 2017

An upstream step to remove contaminating cell types from T-cells for immuno-oncology

Elsa Noaks
Industrial Fellow 2017

New ceramic coatings for Small Modular Reactors

Edward Williamson
Industrial Fellow 2017

Discovery of novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of Tuberculosis

Timur Avkiran
Industrial Fellow 2017

Re-engineering bone

Dina Abdulaziz
Industrial Fellow 2017

Manufacturing enhanced heat transfer surfaces on commercial heat exchangers

Andrew Anderson
Industrial Fellow 2017

Reduction of energy losses in zero emissions liquid air engines

Iestyn Stead
Industrial Fellow 2017

Massively Parallel Sequencing in forensic genomics

Laurence Devesse
Industrial Fellow 2017

Powerful CRISPR/Cas9 screens via computational prediction of DNA repair profile

Dr Felicity Allen
Research Fellow 2017

Speed or precision? Dynamics of information flow in the brain

Dr Zahid Padamsey
Research Fellow 2017

Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging analysis of biopolymer materials

Dr Matthew Wallace
Research Fellow 2017

A microfluidic model of the neurovascular unit for stroke research

Dr Paul Holloway
Research Fellow 2017

Semi-crystalline materials in additive manufacturing

Dr Claire McIlroy
Research Fellow 2017

Probing the nature of dark matter using hot white dwarfs

Dr Nicole Reindl
Research Fellow 2017

Biodiversity and the sixth mass extinction: lessons from the past

Dr Mark Puttick
Research Fellow 2017

Employing computer algorithms to automate the engineering of quantum states

Dr Paul Knott
Research Fellow 2017

A manufacturing process for clinically-relevant cord blood haematopoietic stem cells

Shaun Mansfield
Industrial Fellow 2017

Remora

Robert Edwin Rouse
Industrial Design Student 2015

Neurofenix

Guillem Singla Buxarrais
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2017

Gravity Sketch

Oluwaseyi Sosanya
RAEng ERA Enterprise Fellow 2017

Prof Peter Higgs awarded Royal Commission Medal

For outstanding influence on science

Recoil

Victoria Hamilton
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2017

Vochlea

George Wright
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2017

Healthier Cities

Dr Julia King
Design Fellow 2016

The Musician’s Mirror: an objective observer for posture and technique

Arthur Carabott
Industrial Design Student 2015

Lacu: a safe, private environment to take a break from reality

Ben Moffatt
Industrial Design Student 2015

BLINK: Humanising Autonomy

Raunaq Bose
Industrial Design Student 2015

Born to Engineer

Adrian Westaway
Industrial Design Student 2005 and Design Fellow 2008

1851 Alumni Reception

1851 Alumni Reception at Buckingham Palace
1 December 2016

The Beautiful Everyday Journey

Ellen Hadden, Thomas Greenall, Roberta Marcaccio, Astrid Bois d’Enghien
Built Environment Fellows 2015

doppel

Jack Hooper
Industrial Design Student 2013
RAEng 1851 Enterprise Fellow 2016

Born to Engineer

Yusuf Muhammad
Industrial Design Student 2006

Born to Engineer

Mathew Holloway
Industrial Fellow 2014

Design: The link between technology and productive industry

Adrian Westaway
Design Fellow 2008

Design: Connecting the Old Economy with the New

Michael Korn & Denis Anscomb
Design Fellows 2010

Massive Small: Smart urbanism in an upside down world

Kelvin Campbell
Built Enviroment Fellow 2013

News – 13 Nobel Laureates

From the Commission’s awards
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