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Research Priority Areas

Outline Post –Harvest biotechnology Asgar Ali

Aerospace Amir Nassirharand

Autism Peter Mitchell

Business School Rasyad Parinduri

Drug Discovery and Delivery Nash Billa

Energy Gavin Walker

Green Technologies Denny Ng

Intelligent Computation Tim Brailsford

Food and Bioproduct Processing Law Chung Lim

Many academics are involved with these activities.

Thursday, May 31, 2012 3 Event Name and Venue

Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology

Asgar Ali, Director

Peter Alderson, Yin Sze,

Susan Azam Ali

SB Campus: Professor Greg Tucker

Professor Graham Seymour

Professor Jeremy Roberts

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 4

Postharvest and Food Security

• Total fruit & vegetable production is 1,463 MMT

• Postharvest losses are estimated at 30 – 50% of

produced food

• Minimizing postharvest losses can enhance food

security

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 5

Research at the Center

• To minimize postharvest losses through:

– Exploiting natural products such as

chitosan, gum Arabic, propolis to

develop edible coatings to extend the

shelf-life of fruits and vegetables

– Developing technologies for safe

storage of fruits and vegetables while

reducing microbial load such as

ozone treatment and nano-

technology applications

– Understanding the mechanisms of

phytochemical production in

horticultural commodities to improve

nutrition and human health

Aerospace Priority Group UNMC Amir Nassirharand UNOTT Andy Long

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 7

RPG on Aerospace Studies

Mission Statement

• The mission is to research and better understand

dynamics, control, propulsion,

communications/electromagnetics, and green

fuels for aerospace applications.

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 8

Current Projects •Satellite Attitude Control (Amir - MOHE)

•Prototype development of quad-rotor helicopters (Amir,

Haider)

•Green Fuels, Biofuels (Jit Kai, Poi Sim, Feroz –

MOSTI, AMIC)

•Micro-propulsion systems (Jit Kai, ANGKASA)

•Modeling, simulation, and control of liquid propellant

engines (Amir)

•Aero-elasticity and energy harvester (Cosmas, Woo)

•Inverted pendulum (Amir, MOSTI)

•UAV Control (Amir)

•Software Engineering (Amir, MOSTI)

•Space Power Satellite (Derek)

5/31/2012 Institute for Aerospace Technology 9

Aerospace Research at Nottingham • Nottingham’s current aerospace research portfolio is ~ £50 million – including £23

million in EPSRC funding and involving >50 academics

• Research areas wide ranging: Aeroengine technologies, aerospace materials,

manufacturing, operations, more electric aircraft …

• Key programmes include:

– 2 Rolls-Royce University Technology Centres (UTCs): Gas Turbine Transmissions and

Manufacturing (1997-)

– GE Aviation/ EPSRC “SMARTPACT” strategic partnership in Advanced Electrical

Power & Actuation Systems (2005-11)

– EU/ Industry Clean Sky JTI – Systems for Green Operations – UoN is only University

with associate member status – (2008-15, €10.3m)

– Lead EPSRC funded Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Composites (2011-16) and

Manufacturing Technology EngD Centre (2011-18)

– Strategic collaboration with Boeing on composites recycling (2011-, $1m pa)

– 5 Aerospace related EPSRC Platform Grants in recent years

www.nottingham.ac.uk/aerospace

5/31/2012 Institute for Aerospace Technology 10

Institute for Aerospace Technology

• Supporting aerospace innovation regionally &

nationally - providing pipeline from fundamental

(TRL 1-3) to applied (TRL 4-6) research

• To support three key elements:

– Enhance basic research infrastructure

(Aerospace Research Centre), manufacturing

equipment & measurement techniques for

materials/ structures

– New infrastructure for applied research &

development via Aerospace Technology Centre

– Increased business engagement & knowledge

transfer activities, supported by dedicated Project

manager and BDE

www.nottingham.ac.uk/aerospace

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 11

Centre for Research

Excellence in Autism Malaysia

(CREAM)

A University Centre Aligned with the

Biomedical Imaging Research

Priority group

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 12

Purpose of C of E…

• Collaborate with NASOM, government departments

and other relevant bodies to establish a programme

of diagnosis using internationally recognized tools

• Training in diagnosis was be provided by Dr Susan

Risis from Univ Michigan

• To conduct an epidemiological investigation in

collaboration with Professor Charman from London

Univ

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 13

Purpose of C of E…

• To identify effective methods of intervention

• To conduct basic research into the characteristics of

autism and other developmental disorders, using

brain imaging, eye tracking and other techniques

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 14

NUBS Malaysia: Research Areas

Rasyad A. Parinduri

Accounting, Finance & Law

Business Economics &

Quants.

Management & Organisational

Behaviour

Strategy & Marketing

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 15

NUBS Malaysia: Research Areas

• Accounting standards, auditing & assurance, behavioural finance, business laws, computational finance, credit scoring & control, data privacy & protection, financial reporting, international finance, Islamic finance

Accounting, Finance & Law

• Development economics, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organization, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary policy, productivity analysis, real estate economics, tourism

Business Economics &

Quants.

• Corporate governance, disaster management, e-government, human resource outsourcing, production planning & control, recruitment processes, scheduling & sequencing, sustainable business, youth development

Management & Organisational

Behaviour

• Advertising, consumer behavior, corporate social responsibility, e-business, family business, innovation, international business, service quality, services marketing, supply chain analysis

Strategy & Marketing

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 16

NUBS Malaysia: Research Clusters

• Accounting standards, auditing & assurance, behavioural finance, business laws, computational finance, credit scoring & control, data privacy & protection, financial reporting, international finance, Islamic finance

Accounting, Finance & Law

• Development economics, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organization, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary policy, productivity analysis, real estate economics, tourism

Business Economics &

Quants.

• Corporate governance, disaster management, e-government, human resource outsourcing, production planning & control, recruitment processes, scheduling & sequencing, sustainable business, youth development

Management & Organisational

Behaviour

• Advertising, consumer behavior, corporate social responsibility, e-business, family business, innovation, international business, service quality, services marketing, supply chain analysis

Strategy & Marketing

Consumer Marketing & Behavioural

Science

Productivity Accountability & Governance

Tourism Innovation Policy &

Management

Thursday, May 31, 2012 17 GRW

The Centre for Drug Discovery & Delivery (CDDD)

Nashiru Billa, BPharm; PhD

• Academic Champions: Dr Nashiru Billa & Dr Ting

Kang Nee

• Maps onto ‘Advanced Manufacturing’ and ‘Drug

Discovery’ RPG of the University

• Our vision: to realise effective therapies by

adapting novel approaches

• Research at CDDD covers a spectrum of

interrelated disciplines including

– identification of plants,

– isolation and pharmacological testing of plant

constituents with relevant therapeutic properties,

formulation

– delivery of actives using novel approaches

– therapeutic monitoring

The CDDD

Research impact and plans

• The centre has about 10 academic staff more than 20 PhD

students and has very strong research collaborations with the

UK campus

• The CDDD has captured a significant number of external grants

worth over RM 3.0 million over five years including one EU FP7

Biodesign project

• We plan to expand and evolve the CDDD into a Centre of

Excellence in the near future

• Increased level of partnerships with industry through

consultancy and continue to seek funding from variety of

external sources

Energy Priority Group Prof Gavin Walker

Fossil Energy & CCS

Energy Vectors and

Storage

Electrical Grids

Low energy Buildings

Renewable Energy

Environment, Society

and Policy

Bioenergy

EU

Industry

UK

Government

UK RC

Other

Energy Research at the University of

Nottingham • £50M current portfolio

• > tripled in 3 years up to 2010

• 70 researchers as PIs or Co-Is on current grants

• 3 Faculties, over 13 disciplines

Engineering: electrical, mechanical, chemical, civil, buildings

Science: chemistry, biosciences, physics, maths, computing

Social science: geography, economics, business

University of Nottingham Innovation Park

• Low carbon exemplar: BREEAM Outstanding

• £9 M investment

• June 2012 completion

• Clean Coal CDT

• Hydrogen CDT

• Low carbon vehicle RD&D facilities

– H2 fuelling station

– Electric vehicle charging points

• Thermal Energy Storage

• Smart Grid

• Prototyping hall

Designs for Energy Technologies Building

New Energy Technologies Building

Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies (CEGT)

General info • Four main focuses (4Cs):

– Provides courses in green technologies, such as:

Fundamental of chemical safety and health workshop

Future Bioenergy Production via Sustainable Integrated

Biorefinery

Supply chain management and logistic issues for palm oil and

agro-industries

Statistical process control and quality control

– Organise conferences (e.g., POCER 2011, 2013; PRES 2015)

– Consultation - provides specific advice for industrial

practitioners in solving green technology problems

– Commercialisation of potential research projects

Topics and coverage • Main areas of expertise:

– Water and wastewater technologies (Dr Chong Mei Fong, Dr Ramani,

Dr Sivakumar)

– Urban climate and pollution control (Prof Andy, Dr Gan Suyin)

– Waste recycling & minimisation (Prof Dominic Foo, Dr Denny Ng)

– Energy efficiency & sustainability (Dr Svenja, Dr Denny Ng, Dr Yap Eng

Hwa, Dr Lam Hon Loong, Dr Yousif)

– Biomass & biorefinery (Dr Denny Ng, Dr Lam Hon Loong, Dr Svenja)

– Computational tools (Prof Andy, Dr Ng Hoon Kiat, Dr Denny Ng, Prof

Dominic, Dr Ramani, Dr Lam Hon Loong)

• Research grant (2011): RM 850K

• Publications (2011): Journals: 38 & Conference: 32

Intelligent Computation RPG

Tim Brailsford

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 27

Intelligent Computation RPG

• Not Artificial Intelligence

• Not Decision Support

• Not attempting to model human thought

• Computation that is intelligent – Computation – solving problems using electronic devices

– Intelligent – comparable with humans, not necessarily the same

– Practical applications in many fields and disciplines

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 28

A Multidisciplinary Group

• Lead by Computer Science, but not only Computer

Science

• Currently members in three schools in two faculties

• Main areas: – Operational Research, optimisation and evolutionary computing

– Machine learning and support vector machines

– Computational neuroscience

– Hyperstructures for intelligent information retrieval

– Context aware software agents

Thursday, May 31, 2012 Event Name and Venue 29

Centre for Food and Bioprocessing: Law Chung Lim

Technology Development, Design and Invention

Product Development

Thursday, May 31, 2012

• Fruits (focus on underexploited fruits)

• Ciku, Chempedak, Salak, Durian (bio-active ingredients)

• Pomelo (peel), papaya (surface stickiness), apple (appearance), mango (appearance)

• Agricultural Products

• Cocoa beans (bio-active ingredients, cocoa flavour), rough rice (kinetics, cracking)

• Herbal Products and Calyces

• Mushroom (bio-active ingredients), ganoderma (bio-active ingredients, extraction), piper

betle (bio-active ingredients, extraction), Roselle (bio-active ingredients)

• Animal Products

• Edible Swiftlet bird’s nest (bio-active ingredients, appearance), fish meal (cracking,

appearance)

• Noodles

• Rice noodle (no harmful preservatives)

Processing and Drying of Foods and Bioproducts

Thursday, May 31, 2012

• Dehydrated Fruits

• Ciku, Salak with high bio-active ingredients content, Pomelo (peel), papaya

• Dehydrated fruits with low hardness

• Agricultural Products

• Cocoa beans with excellent cocoa flavour

• Animal Products

• Edible Swiftlet bird’s nest with minimum colour change

• Noodles

• Dehydrated rice noodle with minimum colour change

• Low temperature drying technology and 2-stage drying technique

Product Development

Technology Development

Summary Post-Harvest/Food and bio-processing

Food security is an issue of quantity and quality, and proper

postharvest technology offer a sustainable solution for both.

Aerospace

Growth in air travel is a driver for cheaper and greener technology

for the civil aerospace sector.

Autism

Centre for Research Excellence in Autism Malaysia, aligned with

biomedical imaging for epidemiology and early diagnosis using

brain imaging methods

NUBS Activity

Research areas: environmental economics; production planning &

control; productivity analysis; youth development; etc.Research

clusters: consumer marketing & behavioural science; productivity;

accountability & governance; innovation policy & management;

tourism

Summary Drug Discovery

The biodiversity of the rain forests of Malaysia provides a treasure

chest of chemicals of pharmacological interest ripe for discovery

and exploitation.

Energy Priority Group

Income more than tripled in 3 years up to 2010 now £50M current

portfolio. 70 researchers as PIs or Co-Is on current grants over 3

Faculties, and 13 disciplines

Green Technologies

CEGT was established since 2006 to promote the use of green

technologies in Malaysian industry, in line with the Malaysian

National Green Technology Policy Green.

Intelligent Computation

Intelligent problem-solving using many state of the art approaches

real world applications in industry, healthcare and education