Our expertise
We can find the right expert 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’ve delivered 875 projects, for just under 600 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 last Research Excellence Framework, 97% has ‘outstanding’ or ‘very considerable’ impact – and 91% is recognised as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
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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
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

Digital transformation
Some think of business as usual, replacing physical tasks with digital alternatives. Others envisage a more profound change, with new products or services made possible by digital technologies. read more

Cleaner greener plastics
Expertise in upstream material science, chemistry and product design prevents plastic from becoming waste - plus engineering and environmental policy know-how reduce leakage into the environment. read more

New Normal: Batteries, carbon calculators and UK’s electricity mix
Build a more resilient, more sustainable and greener future, whether you’re part of the energy sector, a policy-maker or looking to cut your energy costs to make your business more efficient. read more
Case studies

GoRolloe Life Cycle Assessment
Our consultants provided life cycle analysis for GoRolloe, a start-up developing a device for bicycle wheels that filters out air pollution as its riden, helping the company identify potential environmental hotspots, and improvements. read more

Freshwater control system
Expertise in hydrological modelling helped PyTerra demonstrate the potential of new smart technology to reduce downstream flooding. read more

Reducing carbon footprint of plastic bottle
Our consultants shared their expertise in life cycle analysis to compare the carbon footprints generated by the The Coca-Cola Company’s new PlantBottle™ versus their previous PET plastic bottle. read more