Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences. Formerly a part of the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), it was created in 1994.
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People
- Chief Executive, Professor David Delphy, observer at high-level Nuclear Industry Council meeting July 2013
- Chair, Paul Golby, former chief executive of energy company E.ON
- Director, Science and Engineering, Dr Lesley Thompson
- Associate Director, Capability, Dr Clive Hayter
- Associate Director, Leaders, Neil Viner
- Associate Director, Impact, Alison Wall
- Director, Strategy and Business Relationships, Attila Emecz
- Director, Resources, Andrew Lewis
Members of the council
- Dr Paul Golby - CBE, FREng (Independent) - Chair EPSRC
- Professor David Delpy - FMedSci, FRS, FREng - Chief Executive EPSRC
- Professor Anne Anderson - OBE (University of Glasgow)
- Professor Andrew Blake - FRS, FREng (Microsoft Research Ltd)
- Jack Boyer (Entrepreneur)
- Professor Anthony Finkelstein - FREng, FCGI (University College London)
- Professor John Fisher - FMedSci, CBE (University of Leeds)
- Professor Sir Richard Friend - FRS, FREng (University of Cambridge)
- Professor Vernon Gibson FRS - Chief Scientific Advisor, Ministry of Defence
- Professor Andrew Hamilton - FRS (University of Oxford)
- Professor Richard Jones - FRS (University of Sheffield)
- Professor Dame Julia King - DBE, FREng (Aston University)
- Dr Helen Neville (Procter & Gamble)
- Professor John Perkins - CBE, FREng (Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Business Innovation and Skills)
- Professor Roy Sambles - FRS (University of Exeter)
- Dr David Watson (IBM UK Ltd)
- Professor Jeremy Watson - CBE, FREng (Arup)
Supported organisations
- Diamond Light Source - £56,475 (number of grants: 4)
- EURATOM/CCFE - £163,400,000 (number of grants: 1)
- John Innes Centre - £123,048 (number of grants: 1)
- MRC Centre, Cambridge - £514,179 (number of grants: 1)
- National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) - £302,988 (number of grants: 3)
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - £1,819,356 (number of grants: 2)
- Rothamsted Research - £923,177 (number of research: 3)
- STFC Laboratories - £9,941,464 (number of grants: 27)[1]
- Science Media Centre (since 2007)[2][3]
Affiliations
- University of Nottingham - EPSRC will invest £10 million in the new UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) at Nottingham, over a five-year period, with funding of £3 million from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to establish new capital facilities that will support innovative research. This forms part of the Research Councils UK Energy Programme, which is led by EPSRC.
Contact
- Address:
- Polaris House
- North Star Avenue
- Swindon
- SN2 1ET
- United Kingdom
