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EPSRC Support by Research Areas in Theme (Engineering)

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. The number and value of grants listed below reflects how the theme portfolio in question is currently constituted.

Please note: this is a dynamic database reflecting the current grants portfolio by Research Area within a Theme. Therefore, the number and value of grants within a Research Area will not match exactly the thematic Research Area distributions given at EPSRC's portfolio.

Research AreaNumber of GrantsProportional Value (£)
Analytical Science15 4,509,406
Architecture and Operating Systems1 316,340
Artificial Intelligence Technologies14 4,472,302
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics4 4,374,367
Bioenergy1 658,438
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering27 13,142,948
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics11 5,226,690
Built Environment6 1,513,805
Carbon Capture and Storage3 1,478,227
Catalysis18 13,222,525
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry5 597,818
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)6 1,850,119
Coastal and Waterway Engineering15 5,004,718
Combustion Engineering12 4,515,826
Complex Fluids & Rheology17 6,856,218
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry1 101,112
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure1 725,528
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials3 204,027
Continuum Mechanics8 956,143
Control Engineering22 10,584,608
Digital Signal Processing1 175,692
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics8 5,005,667
Electrochemical Sciences3 395,248
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)8 3,182,956
Energy Networks2 197,997
Energy Storage3 1,985,128
Engineering Design6 805,142
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics78 29,678,771
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics10 2,233,665
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology4 548,263
Ground Engineering26 11,074,174
Human-Computer Interaction2 126,825
Hydrogen and Alternative Energy Vectors7 1,123,365
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems5 540,724
Image and Vision Computing9 844,623
Infrastructure and Urban Systems10 6,873,662
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena1 1,088,292
Manufacturing Technologies24 9,617,231
Materials Engineering - Ceramics11 7,339,805
Materials Engineering - Composites35 22,404,249
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys15 7,842,771
Materials For Energy Applications11 8,616,898
Mathematical Physics1 179,520
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)2 100,295
Microelectronics Design4 1,938,818
Microelectronics Device Technology3 3,711,653
Microsystems17 4,891,556
Non-Linear Systems3 106,972
Nuclear Fission2 1,311,796
Numerical Analysis3 408,053
Operational Research2 432,698
Optical Communications1 930,197
Optical Devices and Subsystems8 2,699,378
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits1 167,319
Particle Technology16 6,739,965
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems43 19,256,112
Photonic Materials6 6,042,638
Plasma and Lasers1 740,505
Polymer Materials13 6,565,027
Process Systems: Components and Integration34 21,022,231
Quantum Optics and Information1 1,088,292
RF & Microwave Devices2 392,437
RF & MW Communications4 904,749
Robotics14 8,874,253
Sensors and Instrumentation55 21,103,492
Software Engineering1 221,455
Statistics and Applied Probability1 53,029
Structural Engineering27 19,659,084
Superconductivity1 431,961
Surface Science8 1,284,328
Synthetic Biology29 19,696,272
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry1 199,807
Synthetic Organic Chemistry2 416,905
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry1 274,054
Theoretical Computer Science1 316,340
Transportation Operations and Management2 741,439
Water Engineering11 10,316,935
Whole Energy Systems1 244,980
Wind Power5 778,359