Recipients announced for our latest Networking Grant fund

We’re pleased to announce the recipients of our final round of Networking Grants – the most substantial funding allocation in C-DICE’s history. Designed to support collaboration and knowledge exchange, the grants were open to postdoctoral researchers and final-year PhD students.

This final call offered up to £1,000 for UK-based travel and up to £3,000 for international visits, covering travel, subsistence, and consumables to facilitate meaningful networking opportunities.

The successful applications reflect a wide range of research interests and collaborative ambitions, from sustainable energy and digital innovation to inclusive retrofit frameworks and biodiversity-inspired manufacturing:

• Lizzie Ashton – Community Engagement and Training for Hydrogen Energy Adoption in Rural Malawi
• Yuqing Dai – AQPET-Web: Collaborative Air Quality Decision Support for Net-Zero Cities
• Yirui Jiang – From Lab to Real World: Building UK-US Networks for Sustainable Product Innovation
• Mohammad Hamdan – Advancing Inclusive Retrofit Frameworks for Net-Zero Cities: Methodology, Modelling, and Community Impact
• Shivangi Sharma – Adaptive Composite Thermal Energy Storage for IoT‑Enabled Grid Flexibility
• Francesco Fico – Towards Net Zero: Unlocking the Potential of Fusion Energy
• Shady Adib – Laying the Foundations for Self-Generating Digital Twins: A UCL–C-DICE Collaboration on SHM Innovation
• Rodolfo Teixeira – Network for “Sustainable Manufacturing Inspired by Tropical Biodiversity”
• Yizhou Su – Investigating the Impact of Ventilation Strategies on Thermal Comfort and Energy Saving
• Paolo Cherubini – STREAMS: Building a Pan-European Collaboration for Transdisciplinary Impact

Many congratulations to all our recipients. Their diverse and forward-thinking proposals demonstrate the value of cross-disciplinary collaboration in tackling global challenges.