University signs research agreement with Saudi Arabia
LEEDS University has signed a major research agreement with Saudi Arabia’s King Saud University.
The partnership will oversee the development of collaborations in nanoscience, technology and engineering with the King Abdullah Institute of Nanotechnology.
This new collaboration will develop joint PhD projects, funded research and enterprise activities in medicine and health, biology, chemical manufacturing, electronics and other sectors.
The programme will be administered through the University of Leeds NanoManufacturing Institute and will provide new funding for PhD research and collaborative exchanges.
Professor Richard Williams, pro vice chancellor of Enterprise, Knowledge Transfer and International Strategy at the University of Leeds said: “This continues a series of educational agreements with KSU and we are delighted this is our first major research and enterprise project in an area that draws on a distinctive research strength for Leeds in an area that has major societal impact.
“We expect new research programmes to start within the next two months and look forward to welcoming academic staff from KSU as visiting researchers and professors to Leeds.”
Professor Al-Ghamdi, deputy rector for Knowledge Exchange and Technology Transfer at King Saud University added: “I welcome the new research alliance in nanotechnology that we have entered into with the University of Leeds.
“We have already appointed Professor Terry Wilkins of the NanoManufacturing Institute as the first visiting professor to KSU from Leeds and we look forward to welcoming more Leeds staff to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to work jointly on projects that will have long lasting impact.”
Nanotechnology is the science of the extremely tiny, involving the study and use of materials on an almost unimaginably small scale.
One nanometre is a millionth of a millimetre or about one eighty thousandth of the width of a human hair.
