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. And despite COVID 19 restrictions, our teams are delivering solutions to meet your business needs.
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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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
Energy and Natural Resources
From sustainable and nuclear energy to oil, gas and mining - plus Seismic hazard assessments to electric and hybrid vehicles. 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
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
Robotic revolution
Robots are already used to pick and pack online deliveries, vacuum our homes, and to enable surgeons to carry out life-saving operations. In the coming decades, robots have the potential to further enhance human capabilities, providing better care, more efficient transport, and tackling mundane tasks. read more
Fighting misinformation
In the midst of the pandemic, misinformation and misrepresentation is more prevalent than ever, from 5G infrastructure being linked to the spread of the virus, the benefits of use of face masks by the public - to how far the airborne virus can be transmitted, potential 'treatments' and more read more
Case studies
Energising Britain Report
Dr Iain Staffell, Dr Malte Jansen and consultants from e4Tech were commissioned by Drax Group to look into the progress, impacts and outlook for transforming Britain’s energy system. read more
Putting science into Sci-Fi
When Left Bank Pictures (producers of The Crown and Lost) were looking for someone to give their Sci fi adventure, ORIGIN, a touch of realism - they called upon Imperial Consultants. Thanks to his previous work with filmmakers, writers and artists, they were introduced to Dr Roberto Trotta, a theoretical cosmologist renowned for taking on the unusual - and gifted in translating ‘science-speak’ into layman’s terms. read more
Informing the debate on Britain’s electricity system
The electricity sector is currently undergoing unprecedented changes, including obligations to decarbonise and pressure to keep bills down. With old coal being driven off the system, new nuclear given the go-ahead, prices reaching new highs and lows, and clean energy overtaking fossil fuels for the first time, there is an increasing need for a strong evidence base and robust analysis. read more