A joint venture between UCL and Imperial College London
Facilities
The LCN provides access to world-leading experts in the converging fields of biotechnology, nano-electronics and nanotechnology and benefits from investment of around £30 million in sophisticated, high-value instrumentation and equipment.
LCN has access to State-of-the art capital equipment within its laboratories at UCL and Imperial College.
UCL / Bloomsbury Site
At UCL, the Centre is a post-graduate research department for resident members under the co-directorship of Prof. Gabriel Aeppli:
- operating budget ca £10M pa
- ca. 32 resident PI’s from 4 faculties (Engineering, life sciences, phys.sci., medicine)
- typical PI 100% research in LCN/100% UG teaching/community service in traditional department
- research grants/overheads credited to LCN
- undergrad/MSc tuition credited to traditional department
- PG tuition credited to LCN, small admin fee to traditional depts.
- separate teaching/research line mgmt, Deans adjudicate
Imperial College / South Kensington Site
At Imperial, LCN is a virtual centre with real branded space and resident members under the co-directorship of Prof. Milo Shaffer. All monies flow through traditional departments of the university and all researchers are employed by one of the College’s departments.
See Imperial research facilities
This is not an exhaustive list of equipment available to support the LCN projects. If you cannot see a particular technique you need to access, please contact us.
