Funding Secured for the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

The following are the total incomes to the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, from grants/awards that I have helped to secure. Where not stated otherwise, I am the Principal Investigator (PI):

• 2023: £600K to fund the Edinburgh Imaging Project, focussed on wave theory, imaging and monitoring. (PI: Curtis)
• 2023: £32K to fund research into using fibre optic arrays to monitor subsurface CO2 storage reservoirs. (PI: Curtis)
• 2021: £travel expenses to join New Zealand based research project SALSA (Spreading Along the Southern Alpine Fault). [Marsden Fund] (PI: Townend)
• 2021: £82K to fund research scoping strategic business alignment between the University and a multi-national corporation, to support their move to net Zero carbon emissions. [EPSRC Partnership Fund] (PI: Curtis)
• 2019: £640K to fund the Edinburgh Imaging Project, focussed on wave theory, imaging and monitoring. (PI: Curtis)
• 2018: £350K to buy a pre-clinical medical ultrasound scanner to be hosted in the Centre for Cardiovascular Science. Medical Research Council (PI: Moran)
• 2017: £280K to fund research on full waveform inversion. Total plc. (PI: Curtis)
• 2016: £41.5K Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, for postdoc between Geophysical and medical imaging (PI: Curtis).
• 2016: £633K EPSRC project on non-destructive testing, to fund staff, postdoc and student; other than me, all based at the University of Stratchclyde. (PI: Mulholland)
• 2016: £3K Academic Networking Fund (EPSRC): funding two internal cross-disciplinary workshops (PI: de Ridder).
• 2015: £33K to fund PhD on UKArray seismology (PI: Curtis).
• 2015: £670K to University of Edinburgh, £100K for my part (£3M overall) in EU project. (Edinburgh PI: McDermott)
• 2015: £800K to fund the Edinburgh Interferometry Project, focussed on wave theory, imaging and monitoring. (PI: Curtis)
• 2014: £16.7K to fund work on North Sea seismic attenuation mystery. Carnegie Fund (PI: Nick Rawlinson, Aberdeen)
• 2014: ¤531K to Edinburgh over 4 years (¤3.5M overall) – “WAVES” EU Innovative Training Network. (Edinburgh PI – Curtis. Overall PI – Lapo Boschi at Univ. Pierre et Marie Currie)
• 2014: £385K over 3 years – Industrially-funded postdoctoral project on expert elicitation, human bias and decision making (PI: Curtis)
• 2013: £310K capital funding – Computing facility for massive real-time data assimilation in environmental science. (PI: I. Main. Co-I’s: A. Curtis, S. Tett, A. Bell, M. Atkinson, M. Mineter)
• 2013: £562K capital funding to establish UKArray, a new network of 40 broadband seismometers to be installed across the UK for a range of industrial monitoring, crustal, lithospheric and global applications. (PI: B. Baptie at BGS. Co-I’s: A. Curtis, M. Kendall, R. England, J. Ludden)
• 2013: £7.5M over 9 years – Member (minor) of 5-person bid writing team for successful NERC Doctoral Training Program proposal. (PI: Pete Nienow. Chair: Kate Heal)
• 2013: £169K over 4 years – Industrially-funded PhD project on nonlinear inverse theory and super-resolution (PI: Curtis)
• 2011: £1M over 4 years – Industrially-funded consortium project on interferometry and imaging (PI: Curtis)
• 2011: £29.3K over 3 years – Half-funded studentship on interferometry with the British Geological survey (PI: Curtis)
• 2010: £266K over 5 years – industrial sponsorship of the Total Chair of Mathematical Geoscience (PI: Curtis)
• 2009: £3.2K over 1 years – small project grant to set up Herding Laboratory (PI: Curtis)
• 2007: £2.2M over 2 years – CASSEM project, Haszeldine P.I.; I was co-PI and raised funding for 2 of the postdocs, totalling £460K
• 2007: £96K over 3 years – Total-funded Ph. D. studentship (Mohammad Sharaeeni) (PI: Curtis)
• 2007: £62K (est.) over 3 years – Open CASE NERC Ph. D. studentship (Simon King) (PI: Curtis)
• 2007: £315K over 3 years – Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored at FEC by Industrial Sponsor (PI: Curtis)
• 2007: £18K capital equipment funding – for a secure computing environment for industrial data, sponsored by ECOSSE
• 2006: £153K over 2.5 years – Postdoctoral Fellow sponsored by the DTI’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme (University PI: Curtis)
• 2006: £30K over 5 years – WesternGeco scholarships for top 3rd and 4th year Geophysics undergraduates (PI: Curtis)
• 2005: £62K over 3 years – Industrial CASE NERC Ph. D. studentship (Thomas Guest) (PI: Curtis)
• 2005: £25.5K over 3 years – Half-funded Ph. D. studentship from the British Geological Survey (Heather Nicholson) (PI: Curtis)
• 2004: £62K over 3 years (at 2006 rates) – Industrial CASE NERC Ph. D. studentship (David Halliday) (PI: Curtis)
• 2002: £62K over 3 years (at 2006 rates) – Industrial CASE NERC Ph. D. studentship (David Price) (PI: Curtis)
• 2001: £62K over 3 years (at 2006 rates) – Industrial CASE NERC Ph. D. studentship (Jon Hill) (PI: Curtis)
• 2001: £14K over 3 years (at 2006 rates) – Marie Curie sponsored Ph. D. studentship (Dirk-Jan van Manen) (Co-I: Curtis. PI: Johan Robertsson, WesternGeco)