THz Nano-Devices for Energy Harvesting

Graham is a has spent many years working at the cutting edge of research and development in both academic and commercial environments. As a doctorate level researcher he worked on a variety of topics ranging from gene regulation mechanisms to viral defence machinery. He helped form a spin-out company from the University of Edinburgh that developed and sold bioinformatics solutions to pharmaceutical companies. He has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Manchester Business School.

 

As a Venture Manager at UMIP he now helps academics to develop and commercialise their intellectual property from initial idea to venture-backed spin-out company. He is currently working with Professor Aimin Song from the University of Manchester to explore the technical and commercial feasibility of THz rectennas for energy harvesting.

The University of Manchester Intellectual Property Limited (UMIP) is the managing agent of The University of Manchester for intellectual property commercialisation. A limited company with almost 40 employees, UMIP is wholly owned by The University of Manchester. The company consists of faculty oriented business management teams backed up by a central corporate office which provides company secretarial, marketing, legal and financial expertise. Building on over 20 years of technology transfer activity UMIP has helped raise hundreds of millions of pounds for spin-out companies, created hundreds of jobs and established relationships with leading companies in the North West of England and across the world.