Our research

The School is a one of the largest integrated multidisciplinary engineering schools in the world, undertaking research in materials and process engineering covering energy, particle science and engineering and speciality materials.

Research in the School addresses industrial, commercial and societal needs in two main areas - energy, transport (both ground and air) and the environment and in speciality materials, including health, IT products and personal care.

This work is carried out in three major institutes and our Doctoral Training Centre:

• Energy Research Institute - combustion, energy, future fuels and aviation
• Institute for Materials Research - carbon, electroceramics, novel alloys & steels, photonics, textile structures
• Institute of Particle Science and Engineering - chemical engineering, mineral process engineering

Strongly interdisciplinary in nature, our institutes have long established collaborative links with other University of Leeds schools and departments, and with research institutions around the world. Collaborations are enhanced by several interdisciplinary research centres:

• BNFL/NEXIA Alliance in Particle Science & Technology
• Centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD Centre)
• Centre for Integrated Petroleum Engineering and Geoscience
  
• Earth, Energy and Environment Institute (IEEE)
• Institute of Process Research & Development (iPRD)
• Leeds Electron Microscopy & Spectroscopy Centre (LEMAS)
• Malvern Intellisense Partnership in Intelligent Process Systems
• NanoManufacturing Institute (NMi)

We are actively seeking research students to work on key projects. As a School we recruit approximately 40 research students a year from around the world, with over 140 overall across all years of their study.