RisingWISE case studies
Case studies from the MPLS RisingWISE programme.
Accelerating Open-Source Chemistry Tools Through IAA Funding
When Dr Fernanda Duarte joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in 2018 as an Associate Professor in Computational Organic Chemistry, she set out to build a research programme at the intersection of theory, computation, and real-world chemical problems.
Powering Fertiliser with Sunlight: How EPSRC IAA Funding Helped Turn a Lab Idea into a Real-World Prototype
When Dr Tugce Ayvali first joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, she wasn’t imagining herself as a future entrepreneur. A chemist and materials scientist by training, her world revolved around nanomaterials, catalysts, and sustainable energy transformations.
From Side Project to Global Health Tool: How IAA Funding Catalysed a Non‑Invasive Blood Testing Device
In 2020, at one of the last in‑person research events before the COVID‑19 pandemic shut down campuses, Dr Winok Lapidaire, an Oxford neuroscientist, met Dr Elliot Bentine from the Department of Physics. What began as an exploratory collaboration around blood vessel imaging has since grown into a promising non‑invasive blood testing platform.