The research activities of the Department fall into at least one of the following nine research themes. You may also be interested in our academic group pages and research interests, or a list of our interdisciplinary collaborative research centres.

Themes part one

Bio

Biomedical engineering and industrial biotechnology

Engineering biological and biomedical systems to improve the human condition and the world around us

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Energy

Energy and environmental engineering

Delivering materials, methods, processes and technologies in support of a sustainable future

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Materials

Materials

Making materials matter: understanding the behaviour of materials for optimising technological processes and product applications

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Themes part two

Multiphase flow

Multiphase transport processes

Creating the next-generation of multi-scale modelling tools and measurement techniques for complex multiphase flows

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Multi-scale computational chemical engineering

Computational and systems approaches for the design, analysis and optimisation of chemical, physical and biological processes across time and length scales

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Water drop

Multiscale thermodynamics and molecular systems

Quantitative prediction of the thermophysical properties and phase behaviour of matter to supply insight into its behaviour

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Themes part three

Reaction engineering and applied catalysis

Reaction engineering and applied catalysis

Developing novel, clean and efficient chemical processes while minimising negative impacts on the world and its resources

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Separations

Separations

Developing energy efficient separations across a range of industrial applications

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Soft matter engineering

Soft matter engineering

Designing, synthesising, assembling, characterising and modelling soft materials for applications ranging from healthcare to energy

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