Description
DIRDI’s Five Aims are:1. “Newtonian Discovery": undertaking theoretical research into the fundamental physical laws of the Universe, for humankind.
2. "Edisonian Commercialisation": applied research in scientific instrumentation and systems, acoustics, electromagnetism, and information engineering, to fund the institute’s other four aims.
3. Identifying and nurturing the UK’s “Next Newton".
4. Identifying at an early stage in their academic careers future Nobel Prize Winners of Science and creating a 20-year environment to support and encourage them.
5. Be an “academic hub” for Universities across the UK and a “gateway” for ordinary people with unfulfilled inventions and ideas to engage with academics, generating "economic hope" for people with less of it than ourselves.
Research Focus
DIRDI fosters interdisciplinary research with a flexible approach to accommodate the diverse interests of members and fellows. While the focus revolves around the science of instrumentation and systems, we encourage exploration across theoretical and practical domains. Our discussions, projects, and events are centred on this theme, though not exclusively bound by it. This involves:
• The scientific understanding of the stimulus, be it the physics of how sound behaves in a supercritical fluid, the biology of the human nervous system, or the chemistry of sea water, to name a few examples.
• The physical understanding of the sensor, be it, for example, piezoelectric, chemical, photoelectric, or magnetic.
• The electrical, mechanical, and material understanding required to design and develop an instrument or system.
• The informational, computational, and mathematical understanding required to process the data and communicate it in a useful quantitative or qualitative manner.
| Period | 25 Jun 2024 → … |
|---|---|
| Visiting | Durham Institute of Research, Development, and Invention |
| Degree of Recognition | National |