Staff Profile

Introduction

As a Business Development Manager in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering my role is to support academic and research staff with the protection and commercialisation of intellectual property, spin out company formation and development of non-traditional funding sources (e.g. commercial research, Innovate-UK funding), .

I provide:

• advice on business development strategy and implementation
• assistance with development of non-traditional funding applications and bids
• support in identifying key company contacts and approaches
• commercial contract development including set-up, legal requirements and authorisation
• assistance with confidential disclosure agreements
• intellectual property services including prior art searches and filing, IP assessments and market reviews

The areas of expertise within the School of Engineering I look after include:

• Future Mobility
• Geotechnics and Structures
• Electrical Power
• Intelligent Sensing and Communications
• BioEngineering
• Design, Manufacture and Materials
• Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Systems
• Marine, Offshore and Subsea Technology

Background

I completed my PhD at the University of Bristol in supramolecular chemistry, researching into novel chloride receptors and transporters. After this I worked as a postdoctoral research assistant for Professor Anthony Davis (University of Bristol), where I was responsible for supervising undergraduate project students, new PhD students and Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) students.

I then worked for a start-up company researching into novel cross-linkable materials for use in organic light emitting diodes. This was a varied role and included research; project management, with projects spanning synthetic chemistry, optoelectronics and device physics; business development and intellectual property strategy.

Qualifications

• MChem (Hons), University of Southampton 
• PhD Supramolecular Chemistry, University of Bristol
• PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Management 

• Articles

  • Wu X, Judd LW, Howe ENW, Withecombe AM, Soto-Cerrato V, Li H, Busschaert N, Valkenier H, Perez-Tomas R, Sheppard DN, Jiang YB, Davis AP, Gale PA. Nonprotonophoric Electrogenic Cl- Transport Mediated by Valinomycin-like Carriers. Chem 2016, 1(1), 127-146.
  • Li HY, Valkenier H, Judd LW, Brotherhood PR, Hussain S, Cooper JA, Jurcek O, Sparkes HA, Sheppard DN, Davis AP. Efficient, non-toxic anion transport by synthetic carriers in cells and epithelia. Nature Chemistry 2015, 8, 24-32.
  • Valkenier H, Judd LW, Li H, Hussain S, Sheppard DN, Davis AP. Preorganized Bis-Thioureas as Powerful Anion Carriers: Chloride Transport by Single Molecules in Large Unilamellar Vesicles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136(35), 12507-12512.
  • Hussain S, Brotherhood PR, Judd LW, Davis AP. Diaxial Diureido Decalins as Compact, Efficient and Tunable Anion Transporters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011, 133(6), 1614-1617.
  • Judd LW, Davis AP. From cholapod to cholaphane transmembrane anion carriers:accelerated transport through binding site enclosure. Chemical Communications 2010, 46(13), 2227-2229.
  • McNally BA, Koulov AV, Lambert TN, Smith BD, Joos JB, Sisson AL, Clare JP, Sgarlata V, Judd LW, Magro G, Davis AP. Structure-Activity Relationships in Cholapod Anion Carriers: Enhanced Transmembrane Chloride Transport through Substituent Tuning. Chemistry-A European Journal 2008, 14(31), 9599-9606.

• Patents

  • Judd LW, Aldred MP. Dibenzo[d,b]silole-based reactive mesogens. WO/2018/065786, 12/04/2018.
  • Aldred MP, Judd LW, Foden C. Cross-linkable charge transport materials. GB, KR, JP, US, CN, EP, WO2017064490, 28/06/2017.
  • Judd LW, Aldred MP, Koch GC. Fluoroalkylfluorene derivatives. GB, JP, CN, US, EP, KR, WO2015159098, 21/10/2015.