Geoffrey Knott

edibl® is a ground breaking UK start-up growing edible insects through the use of vertical farming 🦗🇬🇧 Our edible insects are 24x quicker to produce than conventional protein sources and emit a fraction of the greenhouse gases 🌱🌍

• Lead the development of edible insect novel foods as part of the UK Edible Insect Association. • Authored and submitted three key dossiers for house cricket, banded cricket, and yellow mealworm as food ingredients. • Collaborate with European colleagues to navigate the EU regulatory landscape for edible insects.

Popularising edible insects in the West. Providing healthier, more sustainable, secure and ethically produced food and drink. Currently, we use crickets in our sports nutrition products. We have a number of pioneering research projects in food science & human health

The UK Edible Insect Association is the leading trade association for the edible insect industry in the UK, serving insect farmers, food product developers, retailers, researchers and interested individuals. We envision a future where insects are an established ingredient in a balanced, nutritious diet, insect farming is widespread, converting organic waste into wealth, and enterprises across the UK sector grow and thrive. Services: - Secure regulatory authorisation for our members and market. - Access to industry-led community. - Member exclusive events, retail opportunities and promotion. - Sector representation ensuring policy and legislation serves your business' needs.

🚀 Launched & lead Surrey's new PhD Accelerator programme to develop PhD student entrepreneurship with a view to commercialise their research through patents and spinouts

Managing Surrey's Medical Research Council (MRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) to deliver real impact from research outputs. Scaling up PhD innovation, IP, and start-ups

Scaling up research innovation to become a mainstream academic activity within Surrey. Engaging PhD students and early career researchers in impactful activities. Managing Surrey's Commercialisation Fellowship programme (below)

Design, assembly and demonstration of superior maritime tracking services using deployable helical antennas on small-satellite platforms Awarded translational funding (EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Placement) to prototype 'Portable, biodegradable shelters made using ultra-compact technology from space'

HOP® has been selected as a #SantanderStartup and we are representing University of Surrey at the Santander Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme

Experience and success tutoring: A-Level and IGCSE Physics, GCSE and KS2-3 Mathematics to students aged 10-17 Example: successfully improved a Physics student's D grade to the targeted B over the course of 3-4 months (1hr/wk)

Accelerator programme structured as residential and workshops over a 5/6-month period consisting of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey. Workshops covered; business model canvas; the proposition, sales and selling; options for finance; networking skills; intellectual property rights; and building the right team

Thesis: New Forms of Bistable Composite Slit Tube Primary deliverable: Developed an ultra-compact, deployable helical antenna for small-satellite maritime surveillance

Thesis: Venus Photoelectrons Primary deliverable: Investigations into the Venusian ionosphere using data captured by the Venus Express mission

Thesis: On the Photoluminescence Properties of CdSe/ZnS (core/shell) Quantum Dots