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AMBER Research Programme

AMBER’s mission is to perform world leading research in materials and bioengineering science and translate that research into economic and societal impact. The research strategy exploits core expertise in key sciences/engineering in AMBER’s underpinning pillars of excellence, that support of our industry informed fundamental research themes.

Our expertise allows us to carry out world-class, challenging, collaborative R&D. Our research tackles critical and emerging sectors of the economy, such as ICT, MedTech, manufacturing technologies and energy.  Our research clusters, brought together under our fundamental research themes, address current gaps in knowledge, drive advances in materials science and engineering, and translate research excellence into new sustainable products and technologies for society and solutions for industry.

AMBER’s fundamental research themes capture our core expertise and illustrate our strategic research direction that translates fundamental science into innovation. Our fundamental research themes represent TRL 0-4 and map to the expertise of the AMBER research team. We have dedicated research champions for each of the themes who are recognized leaders in their fields.

Average principal investigator H-index of 33.5

2000+ peer reviewed publications

24 ERC Awardees

3 clarivate highly cited researchers

For more about the scientific detail of each of our research themes and details of our core experts follow the navigation bar.

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AMBER has a strong emphasis on collaboration. Central to AMBER’s research remit are collaborative projects performed with industry partners, and working with academic, industry and wider stakeholder on international and national research programmes.

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