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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 Science72 28,010,134
Antihydrogen4 3,283,164
Artificial Intelligence Technologies11 4,568,992
Assistive Technology, Rehabilitation and Musculoskeletal Biomechanics5 4,683,049
Bioenergy2 702,372
Biological Informatics5 1,743,815
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering18 9,982,075
Biophysics and Soft Matter Physics30 11,422,391
Built Environment1 91,398
Carbon Capture and Storage3 639,138
Catalysis37 10,104,449
Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry38 17,423,736
Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Mechanisms20 9,425,393
Chemical Structure11 5,727,851
Clinical Technologies (excluding imaging)25 26,810,491
Coastal and Waterway Engineering2 341,256
Cold Atoms and Molecules12 9,078,729
Complex Fluids & Rheology4 896,598
Computational & Theoretical Chemistry12 3,687,152
Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure24 5,561,966
Condensed Matter: Magnetism and Magnetic Materials30 15,907,710
Continuum Mechanics2 472,276
Digital Signal Processing4 2,531,465
Electrical Motors and Drive / Electromagnetics1 4,294,385
Electrochemical Sciences7 1,016,829
End Use Energy Demand (Energy Efficiency)1 299,714
Energy Storage8 2,995,446
Engineering Design3 2,460,399
Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics9 3,072,860
Fuel Cell Technology1 356,250
Functional Ceramics and Inorganics40 9,911,838
Graphene and Carbon Nanotechnology9 2,694,575
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 Phenomena16 4,226,661
Manufacturing Technologies29 31,112,589
Marine Wave and Tidal2 643,417
Materials Engineering - Ceramics11 3,799,847
Materials Engineering - Composites15 3,207,027
Materials Engineering - Metals & Alloys10 7,834,714
Materials For Energy Applications40 11,343,276
Mathematical Analysis2 419,366
Mathematical Physics3 347,088
Medical Imaging (inc medical image and vision computing)22 22,966,747
Microelectronics Design6 1,704,784
Microelectronics Device Technology11 6,589,088
Microsystems4 2,634,005
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 Circuits16 5,071,742
Out of EPSRC Remit6 390,444
Particle Technology10 800,491
Performance and Inspection of Mechanical Structures and Systems11 13,181,673
Photonic Materials28 13,222,753
Plasma and Lasers8 3,688,732
Polymer Materials25 11,236,384
Process Systems: Components and Integration6 3,757,725
Programming Languages and Compilers1 776,695
Quantum Devices, Components and Systems13 5,382,632
Quantum Fluids and Solids1 112,756
Quantum Optics and Information17 9,045,866
RF & Microwave Devices9 6,110,580
RF & MW Communications4 1,782,090
Robotics7 2,854,471
Sensors and Instrumentation20 8,528,767
Software Engineering13 9,290,542
Solar Technology11 6,030,884
Speech Technology1 55,667
Spintronics17 7,257,929
Statistics and Applied Probability3 1,077,833
Structural Engineering6 4,662,030
Superconductivity4 422,676
Surface Science18 6,405,311
Synthetic Biology2 1,970,683
Synthetic Coordination Chemistry14 3,424,606
Synthetic Organic Chemistry15 5,408,414
Synthetic Supramolecular Chemistry11 2,465,753
Verification and Correctness2 93,344
Water Engineering2 4,973,409
Wind Power1 533,417