Whilst the ICoN office is now closed, we are all still working hard to engineer a safer world. The health and safety of our ICoN community is very important to us and we wish you well during this difficult time.
Dr Ruth Boumphrey, Director of Research and Strategic Programmes for the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, discusses ICoN’s mission, reach and partnership with the University of Southampton.
Congratulations to ICoN student and entrepreneur Spyros Daskalakis who has been accepted onto KickStart2020. What starts with an idea, with a lightbulb moment, can we hope be a major business success story.
We are pleased to announce that Professor John Yeow was the winner of The Nanotechnology Council's special election for VP Educational Activities.
Professor Themis Prodromakis pictured on his recent visit to Ghana to discuss the use of nanotechnology tools developed via ICoN.
ICON graduate, Theresa Schoetz, to present her work at the NASA Aerospace Battery Workshop.
Thank you to Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, Director of the Royal Institution, for giving such as inspiring ICON Distinguished Lecture on 2 December 2019. Emphasising the importance of effective public engagement for science to make a difference to society, and for society to make a difference to science.
Congratulations to our first ICON graduate - Dr Theresa Schoetz.
After careful consideration of the high quality applications received in the sixth call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded a further 4 studentships.
Professor Themis Prodromakis, ICON Director, will be giving a public lecture at the Lloyd's Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk in Singapore on 2 July. More information and tickets are available from "AI on a Chip".
After careful consideration of the high quality applications received in the fifth call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded a further 2 studentships.
After careful consideration of the high quality applications received in the fifth call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded 7 studentships.
We were delighted to welcome the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr Haayatun Sillem, to give the inaugural ICON Distinguished Lecture on 1 November 2018.
Fauziya Ahmed-Idris, Grants Administrator at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation visited Southampton to find out more about ICON and meet some of our students.
After careful consideration of the high quality applications received in the fourth call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded 9 studentships.
A fifth call for ICON studentships will open on 11 June 2018.
Congratulations to Theresa Schoetz, an ICON student based at the University of Southampton, who won the best student presentation prize at the Lloyd's Register Foundation International Conference on 9 May.
Applications, which should be clearly collaborative with an emphasis on safety, should be submitted online by potential supervisors.
Dr Themis Prodromakis, ICON Director, is delighted and honoured to become a Foundation 100A1 Ambassador.
The review of ICON's successful first year was published to coincide with the first ICON conference on 7 April at the Intercontinental Hotel, Athens.
After careful consideration of the high quality applications received in the third call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded 8 studentships.
ICON is highlighted as a case study in the Foundation's annual review.
This is a global competitive call and applications from non-UK based supervisors are encouraged.
ICON was pleased to host a visit by the current Vice Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Dr Datuk Rahim on 1 December 2016.
After careful consideration of the high quality applications received in the second call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded 9 studentships.
The second Lloyd's Register Foundation International Consortium of Nanotechnologies call for proposals is open. ICoN invites applications from potential supervisors with the aim of building a safer world with nanotechnology.
After careful deliberation of the high quality applications received for this first call, the ICON Programme Management Board have awarded 10 studentships.
In an article for The Conversation, Dr Themis Prodromakis, Reader in Nanoelectronics, explains how nanotechnology is going to play an ever-increasing role in modern life. Read the original article.
We formally welcome ICoN's six theme leads to the network.
The first Lloyd's Register Foundation International Consortium of Nanotechnologies call for proposals has opened today (7 December 2015). ICoN invites applications from potential supervisors with the aim to "build capacity and knowledge in the application of nanotechnologies to support safety of life and property".
The inaugural meeting of the ICoN Programme Management Board was held in Southampton, UK on 20 November 2015.
