Industry associations
The centre has long standing partnerships with national laboratories such as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as a strong track record in working with several large companies such as BP and Johnson Matthey, to provide training and research solutions. Here you will find examples of current collaborations between industry and the Thomas Young Centre.
AWE
Nuclear Security Technologies
For more than 70 years, AWE has played a crucial role in protecting the nation through nuclear science and technology. Operating across the UK, AWE utilise some of the most advanced research, design and production facilities in the world.
Karen Stoneham (k.stoneham@ucl.ac.uk)
University College London
Kuano.ai
Quantum computing on metalloenzymes (large MP2 calculations), and developing molecular similarity metrics to use for drug design
Jarvist Frost (jarvist.frost@ic.ac.uk)
Imperial College London
Samsung
Joint project funded by Samsung on materials optimisation for thermoelectrics. First collaborative paper released in July 2021 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-021-00521-9)
Aron Walsh (a.walsh@imperial.ac.uk)
Imperial College London
Google DeepMind
Collaboration on neural network electronic structure. Deepmind researchers are also co-supervising two Imperial PhD students
Matthew Foulkes (wmc.foulkes@imperial.ac.uk)
Imperial College London
James Spencer
Deepmind
Rahko.ai & Johnson Matthey
InnovateUK grant on moving quantum computing to the solid state
George Booth (george.booth@kcl.ac.uk)
King’s College London