Queen's University Belfast Core Equipment Call 2019

贝尔法斯特女王大学的EPS研究战略是支持全球最优秀的人才，这需要最先进的研究环境和设备。我们的使命是让我们的研究人员通过我们的学术优势和高影响力的研究获得全球认可。我们的策略和正在进行的技术检讨，概述了加强设施和确定研究设备差距的计划，目的是改善物理环境，确保我们重新调整的研究组合和资本投资的要素得到适当的资源。该设备既符合基础多用户设备，又符合“投资以节省”类别如下：一个新的CCD x射线集群将支持广泛的等离子体研究的研究活动，并支持等离子体物理中心内几个潜在用户的研究。这将支持目前EPSRC资助的实验室天体物理学和热致密物质的研究活动，以及未来在其他领域使用激光驱动等离子体的研究活动。一种新的动作捕捉相机和相关的辅助技术将使任何使用技术来提高不同技能领域的表现的人受益，从低端，例如在与人口老龄化相关的康复环境中恢复基本功能，到高端，例如专业运动员或工人的技能优化。我们的SiMLab最近被扩大为一个多学科/跨学院的设施，用于所有形式的行为测量，包括支持我们的EPSRC“包容真的很重要”奖。光伏系统和风力发电厂模拟器支撑着EPSRC不断增长的能源存储研究领域和可再生能源、电网和存储的能源主题子主题。这两个项目都与EPSRC当前的DTP“配电系统中的储能以减少可再生能源的限制和削减”特别相关，并与我们的能源先驱研究计划保持一致。地下图像捕获系统（SICS）将是多用途设备。在自然与建筑环境学院，土木工程领导着岩土工程和地质水文过程的研究，这项研究得到了自然地理学院同事跨学科投入的补充。“水与能源小组”继续扩大其在含水层盐水入侵方面的工作，EPSRC资助的财团及其与伦敦帝国理工学院、都柏林大学学院和布鲁内尔大学领导的其他财团正在与美国的大学以及斯里兰卡、缅甸、孟加拉国和越南等官方发展援助国家的大学建立项目，以响应GCRF的呼吁。该设备将在我们的PURE系统上开放访问，可以通过主要学者访问。

Our EPS Research Strategy at Queen's University Belfast is to support the best global talent and this requires state-of-the-art research environment and equipment. Our mission is for our Researchers to gain global recognition in line with our academic strengths and high impact research. Our Strategy, and ongoing Technical Review, outlines plans to enhance facilities and identify gaps in research equipment, with the aim of improving the physical environment and ensuring appropriate resourcing of the elements of our reshaped research portfolio and capital investment. This equipment meets both the underpinning multi-user equipment and Invest to Save categories as follows: a new CCD x-ray cluster will under-pin research activities across a broad range of plasma research and support the research of several potential users within the Centre for Plasma Physics (CPP). This will support current EPSRC funded activities in laboratory astrophysics and Warm Dense Matter and future research activities in other areas employing laser-driven plasmas. A new motion capture cameras and associated auxiliary technology will benefit anyone using technology to improve performance in different skill-based domains, ranging from the low end, e.g. regaining basic functions in a rehabilitation context related to our ageing population, to the high end e.g. skill optimisation in expert athletes or workers. Our SiMLab has recently been widened as a multidisciplinary/cross-faculty facility for all forms of behavioural measurement, including support to our EPSRC 'Inclusion really does matter' award. The Photovoltaic system and wind power plant emulator underpin EPSRC's growing research area of Energy Storage and the Energy Theme sub-themes of Renewable Energy and Power Networks and Storage. Both items are particularly relevant to a current EPSRC DTP in "Energy storage in thedistribution system to reduce constraint and curtailment of renewables" and align with our Pioneering Research Programme in Energy. The Subsurface Image Capture System (SICS), will be multi-use equipment. Within the School of Natural and Built Environment, Civil Engineering leads research into geotechnical and geohydrological processes and this research is supplemented by cross disciplinary input from School colleagues within Physical Geography. The "Water and Energy Resources Group" continues to expand its work on saline intrusion in aquifers, and the EPSRC funded consortium and others it leads with Imperial College London, University College Dublin and Brunel University is establishing projects with the universities in the USA and with universities in the ODA countries of Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Vietnam for GCRF calls. This equipment will be open access on our PURE system and can be accessed through the lead academics.