The Department of Engineering Science has an international reputation for its research in all the major branches of engineering, and in emerging areas such as biomedical engineering, energy and the environment (see below). We place a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative work, both within engineering science and across the physical, medical and life sciences.
The Department also has an excellent record of engagement with industry, and has generated numerous successful spin-out companies.
Research is a core component of the Department and we highly value the input and well-being of our research community - find out about our Researcher Committee, which provides representation across all areas of our post-doctoral research body.
The major theme underlying our research portfolio is the application of cutting-edge science to generate new technology, using a mixture of theory and experiment.
Biomedical
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- Biomedical Image Analysis
- Biomaterials and Biomechanics
- Drug and Vaccine Delivery
- Digital Health
- Neurotechnology
- Tissue Engineering and Bioprocessing
- Cerebral Haemodynamics Group
- Data Readiness
- Natural Interaction Lab (NIL)
- Computational Health Informatics
- Oxford Mechanobiology
- Physical Acoustics
- PULSE (Ultrasound)
- Bioelectronic Circuits and Systems
Information, Control and Vision
- Control Engineering
- Systems of Systems
- Advanced Instrumentation
- Machine Learning
- Mobile Robotics
- Applied AI
- Dynamic Robot Systems
- Estimation, Search & Planning
- Goal-Oriented Autonomous Long-Lived Systems
- Active Vision
- Computer vision and machine learning
- Visual Geometry
- Data Readiness
- Cognitive Robotics
- Soft Robotics Lab
- Computational Health Informatics
- Optimization for Vision and Learning (OVAL)
- Information and Communication Networks
Solid Mechanics and Materials
Thermo-Fluids and Turbomachinery
- Oxford Thermofluids Institute
- Hypersonics
- Active Flow Control
- High Speed Turbomachinery
- Particle Deposition
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Turbine Cooling
- High-Heat Flux Cooling
- Sustainable Aviation
- Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- Physical Acoustics
- Thermal Propulsion Systems Research Group
- Microfluids Group