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04 Dec 2008
"The visionary work carried out here helps keep the UK at the forefront of science and innovation"
The Government's Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Sir David King, on the opening of the Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre at Swansea University.
Research facts and figures
- 612 research-related staff submitted to the RAE 2008, covering 31 Units of Assessment
- Swansea University has 52 Research Centres, including
- Centre for Complex Fluids Processing.
- Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Research.
- Civil and Computational Engineering Centre.
- Electronics System Design Centre.
- Institute of Advanced Telecommunications.
- Institute of Environmental Sustainability.
- Institute of Life Science.
- Institute of Mass Spectrometry.
- Materials Research Centre.
- Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre.
- Wales Institute for Mathematics and Computational Science.
- Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating
- 180 academic appointments since 2004
- 2007/08 research income totals £25.3 million (2006/07 income totalled £19.8million)
- Eleven prestigious Research Council UK Academic Fellowships awarded in fields as diverse as Nanomedicine, Computational Biomedical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, and Geography.
- IBM 'Blue C' - one of the world's fastest supercomputers dedicated to life science research
- Swansea Physicists were part of the first team to create antimatter in the form of anti-hydrogen.
- Materials Engineering recently awarded the Queen's Award for Education.
- 1967: Swansea's Professor Oleg Zienkiewicz revolutionizes engineering with the publication of The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics.
- Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating - one of the world's top five printing research centres - working with industry to develop roll-up televisions and e-paper.
- Boots Centre for Innovation assisting innovators to develop new products for Alliance Boots plc in areas such as pain relief, skin treatments, diabetes, and healthy ageing.
- Excellent track record of collaborative research with industry; currently working with over 150 businesses, including world-leading multinational companies such as IBM, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Airbus, Ericsson and Sony.
