Our expertise and facilities
We can find the right expert or facilities for you
With access to over 4000 leaders in their field, we can find the right consultant, with the right expertise to address your challenge. Our dedicated professional services team, then ensure your project is delivered on time and to specification. Over the last year, we delivered 1231 projects for more than 1100 clients, in the UK and overseas.
Our consultants are all leaders in their field and committed to on-going research to ensure their skills remain cutting-edge. According to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Imperial ranks top in the UK overall, with 96.6% recognised as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ – and first for research impact among Russell Group universities, with 98.7% considered as ‘outstanding’ or ‘very considerable’ impact.
What’s more, we’ve got an impressive array of facilities and equipment, and skilled technicians you can access – whether it’s a one-off product analysis – or regular sample testing.
Click on an area of expertise or facility to see what we can do – OR simply contact us with your enquiry.
Model for Lung Repair
Imperial’s Lung Development and Repair Group has devised a highly effective model to track lung repair in support of drug development and academic research. The AIR Model (Acid Injury Repair) combines the accessibility of ex vivo study with the accuracy of working with living tissue. read more
Low emission construction
The Centre for Low Emission Construction provides the construction industry, including plant manufacturers and owners, routes to decarbonise, reduce particulate matter emissions, manage fugitive dust, improve air quality for workers onsite and local communities, and comply with government standards. read more
Medical Education – MEdIC
MEdIC brings together evidence-based medical education, societal engagement, and health system needs to provide bespoke medical education for your workforce - delivered by clinical academics, educational researchers, community collaborators and educational leaders. read more
Air Quality
Experts from the Environmental Research Group, the School of Public Health, and across Imperial, provide air quality measurement devices, solutions, and analysis to local authorities, industry, organisations and communities in a bid to reduce air pollution and it's affects on health. read more
Net Zero Pollution
From air quality, transport emissions, wastewater management and clean-up, to metal and chemical contaminants, plastic waste, environmental impact of infrastructure and more. Our experts research and insights can help policy makers, industry and society reduce the impact our way of life has on our health and the environment. read more
Energy Systems
We’re proud to host some of the UK’s leading energy experts at Imperial, whose insights and influence reach policy makers and regulators, manufacturers and suppliers. read more
Better Futures
Imperial Consultants and the Grantham Institute are supporting the Mayor of London’s Better Futures programme by providing cleantech businesses across London with access to the plethora of expertise at Imperial College London. read more
dreamteam – Design Engineers
Have a challenge, but not sure what help you need? A dynamic team of fresh thinking student talent, led by an experienced academic consultant can design a solution for you. read more
COVID-19 Emergency Ventilator
Low-cost design, using generic parts and created by Imperial's experts NOW AVAILABLE for development with health authorities and manufacturers worldwide. read more
Energy Storage Consultancy
Galvanic Energy (powered by Imperial Consultants) provides interdisciplinary expertise in renewable energy to address the most pressing energy-related challenges we face today. read more
Biotechnology
Imperial’s interdisciplinary expertise in biotechnology leads the UK field and spans many disciplines. Many of our experts work together as part of the Industrial Biotechnology Hub and Agri-Net which are dedicated to developing innovative solutions for industry and government agencies. read more
Big Data, Privacy, Machine Learning
Bayesian statistical analysis, data mining and insights, privacy, machine learning read more
Animal Models
In vitro and in vivo pre-clinical vaccine development and anti-infective testing and interpretation. read more
Food Development and Security
Food security and management, structure and sensory insights, manufacturing and packaging, nutrition and health read more
Bioengineering
Analysis of biological samples, developing novel biomaterials, motion analysis of new products. read more
Environment and Climate Change
Conservation, sustainable food supplies, eco-informatics, disease and disease vectors, carbon capture and storage, biofuels, Water and waste management. read more
Civil Engineering
Management, modelling & testing projects from air traffic and transport to structures, concrete durability and sustainable water systems. read more
Drones and Robotics
Bio-inspired drones for air or water sensing, search and rescue, repair; robotics and AI read more
Space
Astrostatistics, astronomy, astrophysics. Space technology from materials, spacecraft and mission design to robotics, satellites and deployables. Space observation and communication including instrument design and operation, data analysis and signal processing. read more
Nanotechnology
From batteries to solar driven fuel synthesis and low energy lighting. Drug design, cosmetics, regenerative medicine, nanotoxicology. Advanced materials and fluids expertise, micro and nano – fluidics, crystallography and electrochemistry. read more
Materials
Bone regeneration, tissue engineering, surgical technology, biocomposites, ceramics, nanocomposites, optical and semiconductor devices, modelling, molecular design, analysis and characterisation. read more
Manufacturing
Process automation, robotics, waste management, supply chain & plant optimisation, advanced materials & fluids, electronics, batteries, biofuels, low carbon technology, lubricants and turbo-chargers. read more
Data Science
Big data, decision science, machine learning, data analytics, bioinformatics, statistics, behaviour analytics, data transformation and data mining. read more
Cyber Security
Encompassing large scale anomaly and change point detection, penalised regression analysis, cluster and network analysis, trusted execution in cloud environments, topic modelling and machine learning. read more
Chemical Sciences
Hardware, software and expertise to support data-rich experimentation in synthetic chemistry. read more
Computing
Imperial College London’s interdisciplinary researchers at the Institute of Security Science and Technology are committed to remaining at the forefront of discovery and innovation in areas relating to ICT and security. read more
Pharmaceuticals
Imperial College London is a hive of activity in drug discovery and development. Imperial hosts some of the world’s leading scientists as well as the affiliation with Imperial NHS trust, one of the largest academic health systems in Europe. read more
Healthcare
ICON has facilitated many large consulting projects that deliver solutions based on Imperial’s world leading expertise on topics ranging from healthcare reform and policy to epidemiological surveys. read more
Medical Devices
Imperial College London’s multi-disciplinary expertise across medicine, design, engineering and computing has enabled ICON to assist start-ups and major firms in developing pioneering medical devices from concept to marketing approval. read more
Business and Finance
We help clients to access bespoke solutions by combining expert knowledge from a range of expertise areas such as big data analytics, advanced mathematical finance and quantitative methods in order to solve the unique problems our clients face. read more
Insights
Factories of the Future
Additive manufacturing is an automated production process enabling complex 3D designs to be transformed into physical objects. Read about the benefits and implications. read more
Life after lockdown: Economy and recovery
COVID-19 has bought parts of the economy to a standstill and the costs of furloughing great swathes of the UK workforce must be met. Imperial’s academics look at how we can re-boot business – and whether the economy can be re-built with cleaner and greener investment read more
Life after lockdown: Infrastructure
By making our infrastructure smarter, more resilient and more sustainable we will be better-placed to emerge as a stronger society. It's just requires brave, data-based decisions - and riding the current political and social challenges. read more
Case studies
Stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Professor Burland, a soil mechanics engineer, selected by the Italian Government to help re-position and stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa as part of a 14 strong rescue committee. read more
Meta study-environmental impact of diamond mining
Skydiamonds commissioned a review of academic, industrial and grey literature on diamond production methods to provide them with a better understanding of the environmental impacts. read more
DISPERSE: Making sense of sound waves
Disperse is an interactive software package for studying guided sound waves in a wide range of structures and components. Its principal applications are the exploitation of guided waves for non destructive evaluation across all industries including aerospace, power generation, and oil and gas. read more