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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 Science22 6,104,859
Architecture and Operating Systems2 348,268
Artificial Intelligence Technologies21 4,464,607
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics4 4,159,576
Bioenergy1 658,438
Biological Informatics1 161,611
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering26 15,154,380
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics14 6,044,506
Built Environment15 4,877,516
Carbon Capture and Storage3 1,478,227
Catalysis17 14,906,833
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry7 744,266
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms4 1,091,819
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)14 4,766,922
Coastal and Waterway Engineering12 3,922,160
Combustion Engineering15 4,559,257
Complex Fluids & Rheology21 10,608,647
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry2 233,151
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure5 982,989
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials3 204,027
Continuum Mechanics10 1,224,042
Control Engineering23 7,042,859
Digital Signal Processing2 202,627
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics12 7,350,705
Electrochemical Sciences6 610,561
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)11 4,344,005
Energy Networks3 360,561
Energy Storage3 1,665,312
Engineering Design12 4,601,408
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics122 45,601,297
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics15 3,303,646
Geometry & Topology1 28,235
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology5 1,221,990
Ground Engineering30 12,824,107
Human-Computer Interaction2 134,180
Hydrogen and Alternative Energy Vectors3 130,352
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems5 562,290
Image and Vision Computing11 1,146,499
Information Systems2 178,649
Infrastructure and Urban Systems24 11,396,375
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena2 1,121,875
Manufacturing Technologies41 17,053,234
Materials Engineering - Ceramics11 6,564,835
Materials Engineering - Composites41 23,462,931
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys27 16,376,366
Materials For Energy Applications11 7,297,798
Mathematical Physics1 179,520
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)5 1,219,662
Microelectronics Design3 607,192
Microelectronics Device Technology4 2,630,700
Microsystems33 6,852,901
Music and Acoustic Technology1 42,820
Non-Linear Systems4 223,624
Nuclear Fission5 3,763,793
Numerical Analysis5 573,882
Operational research6 3,979,682
Optical Communications2 1,854,279
Optical Devices and Subsystems11 6,370,450
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits4 719,257
Particle Technology27 7,138,403
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems47 25,730,859
Photonic Materials8 4,351,625
Polymer Materials17 4,578,030
Process Systems: Components and Integration47 23,952,035
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems2 224,910
Quantum Optics and Information1 1,088,292
RF & Microwave Devices10 1,686,829
RF & MW Communications6 1,274,021
Robotics23 17,448,521
Sensors and Instrumentation77 26,855,109
Software Engineering1 221,455
Solar Technology2 798,252
Spintronics1 40,853
Statistics and Applied Probability1 53,029
Structural Engineering46 28,430,856
Superconductivity1 40,853
Surface Science14 1,930,114
Synthetic Biology29 16,391,871
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry3 358,955
Synthetic Organic Chemistry4 3,138,674
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry4 536,040
Theoretical Computer Science1 316,340
Verification and Correctness1 87,105
Vision, Hearing and Other Senses2 219,815
Water Engineering15 12,118,880
Whole Energy Systems1 244,980
Wind Power10 1,130,925