Wednesday 10 February 2010

Speaker:   Marcus French   (EID, RAL)

Title:   The STFC Detector Systems Gateway Centre

Abstract:

The STFC is going to build at Harwell and Daresbury Innovation Campuses a centre dedicated to detector
systems technology.  Its function will be to bring academic and industrial collaborators together with
STFC’s world-class detector capabilities and knowledge base. It will develop and commercialise sensors
and integrated detector solutions for both Research Council and industrially applicable markets such as
security and biomedical imaging.

The presentation will introduce the innovation campus vision and STFC’s gateway centres.  The technology
capabilities of the Detector Centre will then be expanded in more detail.  In addition how  it will
operate will be described as well as its plans for further academic and commercial engagement.  Example
projects and routes for engagement will be discussed.

The Detector Centre is a 30m investment from the RCUK Large Facility Capital Fund and will be split
between Harwell and Daresbury.  Construction is expected to start in the next 12 months and the Centre
formally launched for project activity from April of this year.