RCaH Impact Acceleration Fellowships and Workshops

四个多学科的研究小组已由一个开放的EPSRC呼吁进行“尖端”的研究资助，并促进这组已被安置在专门建造的研究复杂的哈威尔科学和技术网站，在卢瑟福阿普尔顿实验室（RAL），使小组有准备进入世界领先的同步加速器，中子和激光设施在RAL。这四个小组包括：英国Catalysis Hub：该中心有四个主要研究领域：催化和能源，环境保护催化，化学转化和设计催化。Harwell的物理基地协调Hub活动，并主持设计主题项目，并为20多名全职研究人员提供住所。该中心网络汇集了多学科的方法来应对催化挑战，将世界领先的学者纳入各自领域。MXIF@RCaH团队：MXIF @ RCaH团队拥有跨学科知识交流的强大文化，确定并开展具有挑战性的“跳跃式”成像实验，以研究“跨多个时间和长度尺度的结构进化”。III.动态结构科学联合会：该联合会充分利用金刚石同步加速器、ISIS中子和中央激光设施，开发在皮秒至分钟的时间尺度上跟踪固态和溶液中化学和生物过程的技术。X射线成像组的相位调制技术：来自伦敦大学学院和谢菲尔德大学的这个团队正在开发用于X射线成像的新光学器件，并开创了一种新的“单次拍摄”X射线方法。这四个团队自2011年以来一直在RCaH成功工作，并在最近的中期审查中受到鼓励，“通过加强四个小组之间的互动”和“发展更多的工业参与，以使项目更具可持续性，并保证高影响力研究和开发的潜力”。通过四个小组现在共同申请的影响加速基金，我们希望通过任命8名影响加速研究员来实现这些目标（4个学术和4个工业）长达六个月的时间，谁将跨越两个或两个以上的RCaH集团的研究领域和/或将有很强的工业联系。研究员将成为各自领域的国际专家，其任务是促进RCaH四个小组与更广泛的国际学术和工业界之间的学术和工业联系。其次，我们希望在未来两年内举办8个研讨会，以进一步促进四个小组之间的互动，这些小组与更广泛的学术界和工业界之间的互动，并专注于在RCaH小组科学领域工作的早期职业研究人员的发展。研讨会将交替科学传播格式，翻译到行业格式，和早期职业生涯的想法工厂。我们将邀请国际领先的学术界和工业界人士参加科学传播形式和转化为工业形式的研讨会，并鼓励已经在RCaH工作的早期职业研究人员发展自己的创意工厂研讨会。通过这些活动，我们将加速EPSRC赞助的四个RCaH小组所开展的高质量科学的影响。

Four multidisciplinary research groups have been funded by an open EPSRC call to undertake "cutting-edge" research, and to facilitate this the groups have been housed in the purpose built Research Complex on the Harwell Science and Technology site, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), so that the groups have ready access to the world-leading synchrotron, neutron and laser facilities at RAL. The four groups comprise:I. The UK Catalysis Hub: The Hub has four main areas of research: catalysis and energy, catalysis in protection of the environment, chemical transformations and catalysis by design. The physical base at Harwell coordinates Hub activities as well as hosting the design theme projects and providing residence to over 20 full time researchers. The Hub network brings together a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling catalytic challenges incorporating world-leading academics in their respective areas.II. The Structural evolution across multiple time and length scales MXIF@RCaH Group: The MXIF@RCaH team has a strong culture of knowledge exchange across disciplines, identifying and undertaking challenging 'step-jump' imaging experiments to study "Structural evolution across multiple time and length scales".III. The Dynamic Structural Science Consortium (DySS): This consortium makes full use of the Diamond synchrotron, the ISIS neutron and the Central Laser facilities to develop techniques for following chemical and biological processes, in the solid-state and in solution, over timescales of picoseconds to minutes.IV. The Phase Modulation Technology for X-ray Imaging Group: This team from UCL and Sheffield University is developing new optics for X-ray imaging and has pioneered a new "single-shot" X-ray method.These four groups have been working successfully at the RCaH since 2011, and at the recent mid-term review have been encouraged to achieve "even greater impact by increasing the interaction between the four groups" and "developing greater industrial involvement in order to make the project more sustainable and guarantee the potential for high impact research and development".Through the Impact Acceleration funding that the four groups are now jointly applying for we wish to achieve these targets by appointing 8 Impact Acceleration Fellows (4 Academic and 4 Industrial) for periods of up to six months, who will each span the research fields of two or more of the RCaH groups and/or will have strong industrial links. The Fellows, who will be international experts in their own areas, will be tasked with fostering the academic and industrial links between the four groups at the RCaH and the wider international academic and industrial communities. Secondly, we wish to run 8 Workshops during the next two years to further facilitate the interactions between the four groups, between the groups and the wider academic and industrial communities, and to focus on the development of early career researchers working in the science areas of the groups at the RCaH. The workshops will alternate between scientific dissemination format, translation to Industry format, and Early Career Idea Factories. We will invite internationally leading academic and industrialists for the scientific dissemination format and translation to industry format workshops, and encourage the early career researchers already working at the RCaH to develop their own idea factory workshops.Through these activities we will accelerate the impact of the high quality science being undertaken by the four EPSRC-sponsored groups at the RCaH.