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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 Science45 19,086,425
Antihydrogen3 2,429,442
Architecture and Operating Systems1 100,000
Artificial Intelligence Technologies7 3,932,225
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics3 3,126,870
Bioenergy1 310,172
Biological Informatics3 1,380,512
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering5 5,282,890
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics16 6,707,994
Carbon Capture and Storage1 234,681
Catalysis20 7,231,506
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry20 9,839,280
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms7 3,858,865
Chemical Structure5 7,241,155
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)17 22,868,838
Coastal and Waterway Engineering1 156,256
Cold Atoms and Molecules6 3,914,158
Complex Fluids & Rheology3 1,519,537
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry7 1,775,079
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure17 4,472,672
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials13 4,881,127
Continuum Mechanics1 344,424
Digital Signal Processing3 2,060,487
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics1 4,294,385
Electrochemical Sciences1 77,423
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)5 1,410,669
Energy Storage5 2,565,963
Engineering Design1 2,147,192
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics5 1,379,750
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics26 3,909,930
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology5 863,611
Ground Engineering2 1,764,664
ICT Networks & Distributed Systems2 2,578,512
Image and Vision Computing2 5,488,750
Information Systems2 172,838
Infrastructure and Urban Systems1 235,600
Light Matter Interaction and Optical Phenomena9 2,001,573
Manufacturing Technologies12 14,087,678
Materials Engineering - Ceramics8 339,189
Materials Engineering - Composites12 2,640,658
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys4 165,687
Materials For Energy Applications18 5,565,444
Mathematical Analysis1 239,167
Mathematical Physics3 347,088
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)16 18,141,329
Microelectronics Design4 4,039,264
Microelectronics Device Technology3 963,254
Microsystems1 1,125,004
Music and Acoustic Technology2 206,890
Natural Language Processing1 591,210
Numerical Analysis4 752,477
Operational Research2 4,873,604
Optical Communications3 3,668,059
Optical Devices and Subsystems9 8,093,524
Optoelectronic Devices and Circuits3 1,496,455
Out of EPSRC Remit6 390,444
Particle Technology6 130,148
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems9 12,758,675
Photonic Materials13 8,862,836
Plasma and Lasers6 3,268,268
Polymer Materials14 5,212,073
Process Systems: Components and Integration1 2,712,772
Programming Languages and Compilers1 776,695
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems7 3,203,132
Quantum Fluids and Solids1 112,756
Quantum Optics and Information10 4,730,969
RF & Microwave Devices4 3,122,285
RF & MW Communications3 1,547,340
Robotics4 1,698,037
Sensors and Instrumentation14 6,387,655
Software Engineering15 3,276,954
Solar Technology8 5,541,154
Speech Technology1 55,667
Spintronics11 6,026,465
Statistics and Applied Probability3 1,077,833
Structural Engineering2 3,332,876
Superconductivity3 381,823
Surface Science9 3,727,468
Synthetic Biology1 1,813,821
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry9 2,683,259
Synthetic Organic Chemistry6 3,844,023
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry5 1,574,804
Water Engineering2 4,973,409