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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 Science17 4,687,043
Architecture and Operating Systems1 316,340
Artificial Intelligence Technologies14 4,172,148
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics4 4,374,367
Bioenergy1 658,438
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering30 13,550,978
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics11 5,226,690
Built Environment7 1,544,353
Carbon Capture and Storage3 1,478,227
Catalysis19 13,377,605
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry6 668,808
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms1 396,117
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)13 3,830,097
Coastal and Waterway Engineering18 5,247,854
Combustion Engineering12 4,515,826
Complex Fluids & Rheology21 9,962,959
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry2 233,151
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure2 802,951
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 / Electromagnetics8 5,005,667
Electrochemical Sciences4 472,671
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)10 3,465,359
Energy Networks2 197,997
Energy Storage4 2,045,603
Engineering Design8 900,314
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics89 33,825,092
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics11 2,293,929
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology4 548,263
Ground Engineering32 12,693,827
Human-Computer Interaction2 126,825
Hydrogen and Alternative Energy Vectors7 1,123,365
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems5 540,724
Image and Vision Computing10 898,463
Infrastructure and Urban Systems17 7,838,484
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena1 1,088,292
Manufacturing Technologies30 10,471,067
Materials Engineering - Ceramics13 8,072,538
Materials Engineering - Composites41 23,112,301
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys17 8,515,240
Materials For Energy Applications13 8,905,731
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
Microsystems28 5,227,937
Music and Acoustic Technology1 42,820
Non-Linear Systems4 223,624
Nuclear Fission2 1,311,796
Numerical Analysis3 408,053
Operational Research3 634,564
Optical Communications1 930,197
Optical Devices and Subsystems10 2,822,015
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits2 201,941
Particle Technology22 8,008,632
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems45 19,327,478
Photonic Materials7 6,179,431
Plasma and Lasers1 740,505
Polymer Materials16 6,724,393
Process Systems: Components and Integration44 22,774,629
Quantum Optics and Information1 1,088,292
RF & Microwave Devices4 799,996
RF & MW Communications6 1,253,724
Robotics18 9,574,227
Sensors and Instrumentation71 26,252,596
Software Engineering1 221,455
Solar Technology1 207,880
Statistics and Applied Probability1 53,029
Structural Engineering27 18,485,580
Superconductivity1 431,961
Surface Science11 1,641,539
Synthetic Biology31 21,630,096
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry2 246,050
Synthetic Organic Chemistry2 416,905
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry2 351,477
Theoretical Computer Science1 316,340
Transportation Operations and Management2 741,439
Vision, Hearing and Other Senses1 161,520
Water Engineering12 10,458,345
Whole Energy Systems1 244,980
Wind Power5 778,359