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EPSRC Support by Research Areas in Theme (Research Infrastructure)

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 Science66 24,385,059
Antihydrogen4 3,283,164
Artificial Intelligence Technologies11 4,593,985
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics4 3,839,668
Bioenergy2 702,372
Biological Informatics3 1,380,512
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering10 7,359,054
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics25 10,531,655
Carbon Capture and Storage3 639,138
Catalysis36 10,001,039
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry32 15,804,554
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms17 9,108,175
Chemical Structure11 5,727,851
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)19 23,547,800
Coastal and Waterway Engineering2 341,256
Cold Atoms and Molecules9 5,289,695
Complex Fluids & Rheology2 500,161
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry10 3,315,764
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure23 5,529,364
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials26 13,920,628
Continuum Mechanics1 344,424
Digital Signal Processing4 2,531,465
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics1 4,294,385
Electrochemical Sciences5 683,184
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)1 299,714
Energy Storage7 2,876,396
Engineering Design2 2,195,818
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics8 2,881,083
Fuel Cell Technology1 356,250
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics38 8,924,816
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology9 2,265,938
Graphics and Visualisation1 192,755
Ground Engineering4 995,600
Human-Computer Interaction2 655,399
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems3 2,555,486
Image and Vision Computing3 6,435,805
Information Systems2 172,838
Infrastructure and Urban Systems1 235,600
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena13 3,435,136
Manufacturing Technologies24 28,282,561
Marine Wave and Tidal2 643,417
Materials Engineering - Ceramics10 3,758,994
Materials Engineering - Composites13 2,754,853
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys9 7,793,861
Materials For Energy Applications36 10,536,395
Mathematical Analysis1 239,167
Mathematical Physics3 347,088
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)20 22,267,346
Microelectronics Design5 1,569,990
Microelectronics Device Technology8 4,110,334
Microsystems2 1,559,646
Music and Acoustic Technology2 206,890
Natural Language Processing1 591,210
Numerical Analysis4 752,477
Operational Research2 4,873,604
Optical Communications6 5,856,707
Optical Devices and Subsystems12 9,686,595
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits13 3,378,747
Out of EPSRC Remit6 390,444
Particle Technology7 514,481
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems10 13,114,925
Photonic Materials25 12,608,762
Plasma and Lasers8 3,688,732
Polymer Materials20 9,503,345
Process Systems: Components and Integration4 3,191,990
Programming Languages and Compilers1 776,695
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems11 4,689,356
Quantum Fluids and Solids1 112,756
Quantum Optics and Information15 5,619,817
RF & Microwave Devices7 4,318,683
RF & MW Communications4 1,782,090
Robotics7 2,854,471
Sensors and Instrumentation17 7,813,232
Software Engineering13 9,290,542
Solar Technology9 5,812,590
Speech Technology1 55,667
Spintronics16 7,217,075
Statistics and Applied Probability3 1,077,833
Structural Engineering6 4,662,030
Superconductivity3 381,823
Surface Science17 6,216,290
Synthetic Biology1 1,813,821
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry12 3,144,915
Synthetic Organic Chemistry10 4,642,144
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry8 2,133,609
Verification and Correctness2 93,344
Water Engineering2 4,973,409
Wind Power1 533,417