Our expertise and facilities

We can find the right expert or facilities 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 delivered 1231 projects for more than 1100 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 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Imperial ranks top in the UK overall, with 96.6% recognised as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ – and first for research impact among Russell Group universities, with 98.7% considered as ‘outstanding’ or ‘very considerable’ impact.

What’s more, we’ve got an impressive array of facilities and equipment, and skilled technicians you can access – whether it’s a one-off product analysis – or regular sample testing.

Click on an area of expertise or facility to see what we can do – OR simply contact us with your enquiry.

Model for Lung Repair

Model for Lung Repair

Imperial’s Lung Development and Repair Group has devised a highly effective model to track lung repair in support of drug development and academic research. The AIR Model (Acid Injury Repair) combines the accessibility of ex vivo study with the accuracy of working with living tissue. read more

Low emission construction

Low emission construction

The Centre for Low Emission Construction provides the construction industry, including plant manufacturers and owners, routes to decarbonise, reduce particulate matter emissions, manage fugitive dust, improve air quality for workers onsite and local communities, and comply with government standards. read more

Medical Education – MEdIC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Consultancy

Energy Storage Consultancy

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

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

Big Data, Privacy, Machine Learning

Bayesian statistical analysis, data mining and insights, privacy, machine learning read more

Animal Models

Animal Models

In vitro and in vivo pre-clinical vaccine development and anti-infective testing and interpretation. read more

Food Development and Security

Food Development and Security

Food security and management, structure and sensory insights, manufacturing and packaging, nutrition and health read more

Bioengineering

Bioengineering

Analysis of biological samples, developing novel biomaterials, motion analysis of new products. read more

Environment and Climate Change

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

Civil Engineering

Management, modelling & testing projects from air traffic and transport to structures, concrete durability and sustainable water systems. read more

Drones and Robotics

Drones and Robotics

Bio-inspired drones for air or water sensing, search and rescue, repair; robotics and AI read more

Space

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

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

Materials

Bone regeneration, tissue engineering, surgical technology, biocomposites, ceramics, nanocomposites, optical and semiconductor devices, modelling, molecular design, analysis and characterisation. read more

Manufacturing

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

Data Science

Big data, decision science, machine learning, data analytics, bioinformatics, statistics, behaviour analytics, data transformation and data mining. read more

Cyber Security

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

Chemical Sciences

Hardware, software and expertise to support data-rich experimentation in synthetic chemistry. read more

Computing

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life after lockdown: Business as unusual

Life after lockdown: Business as unusual

How can you adapt to the 'new normal' without access to facilities, a full workforce or face to face meetings – and with consumers shifting spending even further online? How can you flourish? read more

Design Psychology

Design Psychology

As human-facing technologies change the way we interact, Dr Nejra van Zalk considers how mental health can be put at the forefront of digital platform design. read more

Case studies

Management of pests and vectors of disease

Management of pests and vectors of disease

Helping small-holder farmers with cost-effective techniques to manage pests and vectors of disease, reducing the use of chemical pesticides and promoting the efficiency of natural processes. read more

Virtual worlds for real-life problems

Virtual worlds for real-life problems

Our consultants shared their expertise in new media applications in healthcare to help introduce the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center chemotherapy clinic staff and patients to a virtual world equivalent using the open source Second Life application. read more

Stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa

Professor Burland, a soil mechanics engineer, selected by the Italian Government to help re-position and stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa as part of a 14 strong rescue committee. read more