STFC Innovations Partnership Scheme Fellow at the University of Southampton

英国的长期经济繁荣有赖于创新。大学的科学培训和研究是一项宝贵的资源，但从这种培训到研究“发明”，再到创新的道路必须建立并持续下去。在这里，我们建议在南安普顿大学任命一名STFC IPS研究员，这将通过增加与非学术合作伙伴(例如，工业、商业、第三部门)合作的研究人员的广度、范围和数量，使我们在学术之外利用STFC资助的研究实现阶段性变化。一名IPS研究员还将允许对我们的STFC领域的技术转移活动采取协调的方法。IPS研究员将利用他们重要的商业/行业经验来转化基础STFC领域研究的想法和技术，以产生非学术影响。这将包括确定和展示我们系由STFC资助的研究优势，提高我们在学术界以外的知名度，并展示如何应用我们的优势和专业知识来服务于非学术部门的利益。一个关键要素将是STFC资助的教职员工和学生的安置，与合作伙伴建立成功和有意义的合作，以及为业界提供接触到一些最聪明的头脑、尖端技术和熟练的问题解决者的机会。作为回报，我们的研究人员将获得进行可行性研究或将业界感兴趣的专门技术和专业知识付诸实践的机会。这些实习还提供了接触未来研究合作者/咨询机会的机会，并作为潜在导师的链接，以鼓励和支持创业。我们预计，该研究员将专注于支持以下“STFC领域”的非学术活动：我们的天文学小组、理论物理小组和相对论天体物理学小组在数据分析(时间序列、机器学习和用于从大数据中提取信号的人工智能)方面经验丰富，这些数据分析很容易转移到商业应用中。例如，南安普顿粒子理论小组在格子QCD方面的工作对并行超级计算机的发展产生了重大影响；IBM Bluegene/Q系列是由加拿大皇家银行与英国皇家壳牌公司合作的同事共同设计的；为探测天文成像数据中的新事件而设计的技术现在正用于医学科学，以检测和监测皮肤癌；我们由STFC资助的数学研究人员正在将机器学习用于雷达应用；我们的空间环境小组在空间天气的影响、地球和其他行星上太阳和太阳风的相互作用方面拥有专门知识，这将对通信、商业、工业和国家安全具有重要意义。

The UK is dependent on innovation for long-term economic prosperity. An invaluable resource is the science training and research in universities, but the path from this training, to research 'invention', through to innovation must be established and then sustained. Here we propose the appointment of an STFC IPS Fellow at the University of Southampton, which would enable a step-change in the exploitation of our STFC-funded research outside of academia by increasing the breadth, scope and number of researchers engaging with non-academic partners (e.g., industry, commerce, third sector). An IPS Fellow will also allow a co-ordinated approach to the our STFC-area technology transfer activity.The IPS Fellow will use their significant commercial/industrial experience to translate ideas and technology from fundamental STFC-area research to generate non-academic impact. This will include identifying and showcasing our department's STFC-funded research strengths, improving our visibility outside of academia, and demonstrating how the application of our strengths and specialist knowledge can serve the interests of non-academic sectors.A key element will be placements for STFC-funded staff and students, building successful and meaningful collaboration with partners, and providing industry with access to some of the brightest minds, cutting-edge techniques, and skilled problem solvers. In return, our researchers will gain opportunities to carry out feasibility studies or to put into practise specialised techniques and expertise of sector interest. These placements also provide access to future research collaborators/consultancy opportunities and serve as links to potential mentors to encourage and support entrepreneurship. We anticipate the Fellow would concentrate on supporting non-academic engagement in the following 'STFC areas': Our Astronomy Group, Theoretical Physics Groups and Relativistic Astrophysics group are experienced with data analysis (time series, machine learning and AI for signal extraction from big data) which is readily transferable to commercial applications. For example, the work of the Southampton Particle Theory Group (SHEP) in lattice QCD has had significant impact on the development of parallel supercomputers; the IBM BlueGene/Q series was co-designed by colleagues in the RBC-UKQCD collaboration; techniques designed for detecting new events in astronomical imaging data are now being implemented in medical science to detect and monitor skin cancer; our STFC-funded researchers in Maths are using machine learning for radar applications; our Space Environment Group has expertise in the effect of space weather, the interaction of the sun and solar wind on the Earth and other planets, with implications for communications and of importance to commerce, industry and national security.