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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 Science18 4,797,425
Architecture and Operating Systems1 316,340
Artificial Intelligence Technologies16 4,439,777
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics5 4,753,406
Bioenergy1 658,438
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering31 14,191,116
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics12 5,362,921
Built Environment9 2,003,062
Carbon Capture and Storage3 1,478,227
Catalysis20 13,633,827
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry6 668,808
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms2 688,740
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)14 4,777,693
Coastal and Waterway Engineering19 5,562,530
Combustion Engineering9 3,266,695
Complex Fluids & Rheology26 10,731,482
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry2 233,151
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure4 919,526
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials3 204,027
Continuum Mechanics9 1,119,456
Control Engineering24 10,655,024
Digital Signal Processing1 175,692
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics9 5,208,414
Electrochemical Sciences4 472,671
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)10 3,465,359
Energy Networks2 197,997
Energy Storage4 2,045,603
Engineering Design11 3,400,459
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics94 35,999,247
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics11 2,293,929
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology4 548,263
Ground Engineering34 13,069,279
Human-Computer Interaction2 126,825
Hydrogen and Alternative Energy Vectors6 934,239
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems5 540,724
Image and Vision Computing10 898,463
Information Systems1 50,936
Infrastructure and Urban Systems17 7,838,484
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena2 1,121,875
Manufacturing Technologies32 14,649,224
Materials Engineering - Ceramics13 8,072,538
Materials Engineering - Composites42 23,316,044
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys18 10,179,368
Materials For Energy Applications14 9,033,842
Mathematical Physics1 179,520
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)3 484,203
Microelectronics Design4 1,938,818
Microelectronics Device Technology4 3,802,049
Microsystems33 6,660,196
Music and Acoustic Technology1 42,820
Non-Linear Systems4 223,624
Nuclear Fission2 1,311,796
Numerical Analysis3 408,053
Operational research4 2,670,786
Optical Communications2 1,854,279
Optical Devices and Subsystems13 6,920,507
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits3 509,969
Particle Technology29 8,982,679
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems44 19,182,728
Photonic Materials8 6,277,417
Plasma and Lasers1 740,505
Polymer Materials17 7,017,017
Process Systems: Components and Integration46 23,254,079
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems1 97,986
Quantum Optics and Information1 1,088,292
RF & Microwave Devices4 799,996
RF & MW Communications6 1,253,724
Robotics19 13,703,123
Sensors and Instrumentation77 27,020,252
Software Engineering1 221,455
Solar Technology1 207,880
Statistics and Applied Probability1 53,029
Structural Engineering31 19,736,834
Superconductivity1 431,961
Surface Science11 1,679,340
Synthetic Biology34 25,139,364
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry2 246,050
Synthetic Organic Chemistry2 416,905
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry3 479,588
Theoretical Computer Science1 316,340
Transportation Operations and Management2 741,439
Vision, Hearing and Other Senses1 161,520
Water Engineering13 11,981,436
Whole Energy Systems1 244,980
Wind Power6 782,935