Application for extension of IPS Fellowship for Michael Simmons

为了提振英国经济，英国政府优先考虑将知识和技术从学术研究团体转移到工业领域。帮助这一过程的一种机制是雇用大学的创新研究员，他们与研究人员和行业合作伙伴合作，将研究成果商业化。在这项提案中，我们寻求支持延长对剑桥卡文迪什实验室研究员的支持。我们要求他工资的25%，其余的部分在其他地方筹集。这位研究员将帮助研究人员将剑桥大学开发的软件和探测器在实验室外使用。其中一个主要领域将是医学研究，这位研究员已经在这个领域启动了两个成功的项目，帮助诊断和治愈癌症。这些项目是与阿登布鲁克斯医院的合作，这一合作也将带来利用质子束治疗癌症的新想法。STFC的一个主要专长领域是大型强子对撞机和平方千米阵列(一个非常大的射电望远镜)所要求的超大型数据集的软件。该研究员将尝试为研究人员使用的技术寻找新的应用领域。该研究员还将与剑桥企业和其他合作伙伴密切合作，在大学研究人员和行业参与者之间建立更紧密的联系。所有这些活动都将确保纳税人和英国经济从尖端研究投资中获得最大利益。

The UK government has prioritised transfer of knowledge and technology from academic research groups into industry in order to boost the UK economy. One mechanism for helping this process is to employ Innovation Fellows, based in Universities, who work with the researchers and industry partners to commercialise research outputs. In this proposal we seek support for an extension to the support of the Fellow based at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. We request 25% of his salary, having raised the remaining fraction elsewhere. The Fellow will aid researchers in bringing software and detectors developed at Cambridge into use outside of the laboratory. One major area will be medical research, where the Fellow has already launched two successful projects to help with the diagnosis and cure of cancer. These projects are collaborations with Addenbrookes Hospital, and this partnership will also bring forward new ideas to make use of proton beams to cure cancer. A major area of STFC expertise is with software for very large data-sets, as required by the Large Hadron Collider and the Square Kilometer Array (a very large radio telescope). The Fellow will attempt to find new areas of application for the techniques used by the researchers.The Fellow will also work closely with Cambridge Enterprise and other partners to forge closer links between the University researchers and industrial players. All of these activities will ensure that the taxpayer and UK economy gain maximum benefit from the investment in cutting edge research.