Two of our academics have been awarded Chairs in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) to support their disruptive innovations.
Professor Susan Gourvenec (Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering) and Professor Themis Prodromakis (Memristive Technologies for Life Long Learning Embedded AI Hardware) are among eight UK-based researchers to share funding worth a total of £22m to support innovations with the potential to considerably benefit society and the UK economy, while enabling the nation to remain at the global forefront of engineering innovation.
The areas of research funded reflect the UK’s wider technological priorities, with many of the projects directly aligned to the government’s Industrial Strategy and designed to tackle some of the biggest industrial and societal challenges of our time. The RAEng Chairs in Emerging Technologies are supported through the UK government’s Investment in Research Talent initiative. The ten-year support provided to the Chairs will enable them to progress their pioneering ideas from basic science through to full deployment and commercialisation.
Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi, Dean of Engineering and Physical Sciences said:
“These highly prestigious awards by the RAEng enable world-leading and visionary academics to address some of the key challenges humanity and our planet are facing. Science and engineering have significant contributions to solving these challenges and the research at Southampton led by Professor Gourvenec and Professor Prodromakis are testament to the impact and the relevance of their innovative approach to these challenges.”
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