Research outcomes and highlights ==== Selected research highlights from Prospero and its progenitor HPC systems at LJMU: * **November 2025:** Prospero users named amongst the world's `most influential scientists `_. * **November 2025:** Prospero modelling of Additive Manufacturing in a paper by Andrew Burgess features at the `9th International Conference on Engineering Technologies `_, in Konya, Turkey. * **October 2025:** Prospero is `igniting discoveries in dinosaur locomotion `_. * **September 2025:** High-profile outcomes from Prospero are summarised in a `review article `_ written by Cristin Merritt of our HPC partners Alces Flight. * **September 2025:** Prospero's fifth birthday is celebrated with a `multi-disciplinary symposium `_ . * **March 2025:** Prospero helps astronomers `discover oxygen in the most distant galaxies `_ . * **October 2024:** New Scientist Live 'huge success' for astrophysicists (`LJMU news story `_) * **October 2024:** Space Oddity: Most distant disc galaxy discovered (`LJMU news story `_; `CNN write-up `_) * **September 2024:** The universe is smoother than the standard model of cosmology suggests – so is the theory broken? (`LJMU news story `_) * **June 2024:** The story of Prospero's genesis features in Professor Robert Crain's `inaugural professorial lecture `_ . * **May 2024:** James Webb telescope sees most distant galaxy (`LJMU news story `_) * **May 2024:** Scientists to simulate 14 billion years of cosmic evolution (`LJMU news story `_) * **February 2024:** TARGET project secures €10m funding to predict heart disease and stroke with AI (`LJMU news story `_) * **October 2023:** Biggest ever supercomputer simulation to investigate the Universe (`LJMU news story `_) * **August 2023:** Magnetic fields "central to creation of Milky Way" (`LJMU news story `_) * **August 2023:** Scientists from the Astrophysics Research Institute showcase their latest simulations of the universe at event (`LJMU news story `_) * **July 2023:** Discovery of new type of space dust excites astrophysicists (`LJMU news story `_) * **Dec 2022:** Prospero characterises the most distant galaxies discovered with the James Webb Space Telescope (`LJMU news story `_) * **Dec 2022** Dr. Juan Ahuir-Torres wins best presentation and young researcher award at the ISAAT2022 symposium for his molecular dynamics simulations. * **Mar 2022:** Physicists to simulate the evolution of the Universe (`LJMU news story `_) * **Jan 2022:** Royal Astronomical Society award for ARI’s ‘virtual universes’ (`LJMU news story `_) * **Jan 2016:** Galaxies are "wasteful" and retain fewer materials needed to build stars and planets, says new study (`LJMU news story `_) * **Apr 2016:** Educate North Awards 2016 (`LJMU news story `_) * **Jan 2016:** Simulated evolution of the Universe (`LJMU news story `_) * **Mar 2015:** ARI creates simulation of the Universe with realistic galaxies (`LJMU news story `_) Major research grants (>£25k) linked to Prospero and its predecessors --------- * | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant and Project Partner Matched Funding, 2025, total £100,000 | PI: Dr Eddie Blanco-Davis LRF: Dr David Hitchmough * | Royal Society Research Grant, 2025, £25,000 | PI: Professor Rui Leite Portela Martiniano * | EU Horizon Research & Innovation Programme, 2024-2028, €10,000,000 | PIs: Professor Sandra Ortega-Martorell & Prof Ivan Olier-Caparroso * | Science & Technology Research Council Astronomy Small Award (x2), 2024-2028, £500,000 | PI: Professor Robert Crain * | Science & Technology Research Council Astronomy Small Award, 2024-2028, £500,000 | PI: Professor Ian McCarthy * | Science & Technology Research Council DiRAC facility, 2024-2027, 500 million core-hours (in-kind £9 million) | Co-Is: Professor Robert Crain, Dr. Andreea Font, Dr. Robert Grand, Professor Ian McCarthy * | Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 2023-2031, £1,300,000 | PI: Dr Jonathan Henshaw * | Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, 2023-2031, £864,000 | PI: Dr Gavin Lamb * | Science & Technology Research Council Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, 2023-2028, £526,000 | PI: Dr Robert Grand * | UKRI Frontier Research Grant (Selected by the ERC for a Consolidator award), 2023-2028, £2.2 million | PI: Prof Peter Falkingham * | Science & Technology Research Council DiRAC facility, 2022-2025, 470 million core-hours (in-kind £8.4 million) | Co-Is: Professor Robert Crain, Dr. Andreea Font, Professor Ian McCarthy * | Science & Technology Research Council Consolidated Grant, 2019-2022, £1.5 million | PI: Professor Phil James, multiple co-Is from the Astrophysics Research Institute * | Science & Technology Research Council Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, 2019-2024, £484,000 | PI: Dr Renske Smit * | UK Research & Innovatation Future Leaders Fellowship, 2019-2026, £965,000 | PI: Dr Sebastian Kamann * | Royal Society University Research Fellowship (renewal), 2019-2022, £434,000 | PI: Professor Robert Crain * | European Research Council Consolidator Grant, 2018-2023, EUR1.7 million | PI: Professor Ian McCarthy * | Science & Technology Research Council Centres for Doctoral Training, 2017-2021, £226,000 | Co-PI: Dr Andreea Font; Co-Is: Professor Robert Crain, Professor Ian McCarthy * | Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 2014-2019, £504,000 | PI: Professor Robert Crain Publications using Prospero: --------- Research outputs produced by the Prospero userbase are tracked centrally using the Symplectic database. Users are added to the Symplectic Prospero group as part of the onboarding procedure. An up-to-date list of publications from the Prospero userbase can be provided on request. Between 2020 and 2025, the Prospero userbase produced nearly 1000 articles, published in over 300 journals.