Engineering for humanity
We seek to recruit and support a collaborative community of research and academic staff who together form a wide-ranging body of expertise across the fields of electrical, electronic, and information engineering.
We pursue fundamental research – both to advance our discipline and to translate the resulting advances into innovative new technology, products and services that can benefit society and drive economic activity.
Much of our work is application-inspired fundamental research – where exploring practical challenges reveals underlying questions that drive fresh research investigations and theoretical progress.
This approach keeps our work grounded in relevance while pushing the boundaries of knowledge.
By working at the forefront of engineering research, we can ensure our education is research-led and forward-looking, preparing our graduates and post-graduates for rewarding careers in an ever-changing world.
Supporting Imperial’s research strategy
EEE contributes directly to the university’s research priorities:
- in Sustainability, our work includes planning and designing control for a fully decarbonised electricity grid.
- we have a wide portfolio of work in Health Technology covering biomedical electronic devices for diagnostics, therapeutics, trustworthy AI for medical image analysis, and in personal robotics to support assisted living.
- these topics also contribute to our drive in Artificial and Human Intelligence where we research AI for image processing, prognostics, logic-informed and interpretable AI.
- in Security, Space and Telecoms we work on quantum cryptography, integrated sensing and communications, cognitive radar, electromagnetic materials and sensors for space exploration.
EEE can make a very significant contribution to critical challenges through collaboration with colleagues in engineering, science, medicine and business to build the trans-disciplinary advances that create deeper impact.
To that end, we join with colleagues in the university’s Schools of Convergence Science, and engage with research centres on Quantum Science and Computing, Robotics and Carbon Management.
Our core research strengths
The Department’s five research groups each include around ten academic staff and a large community of postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.
These groups are the custodians of the technical disciplines that we bring to applications and to inter-disciplinary research. The topics are fast-evolving and there is excitement in conducting the theoretical advances that keep these foundational topics at the forefront of technological progress.
Translation, industry and policy
Our department actively supports our researchers forming spin-out companies to develop innovations. We are particularly strong in health tech, and wireless power transfer.
We also collaborate with large, established industrial partners to transfer knowledge or license patents, including in emerging grid technologies such as high-voltage DC, 5G and 6G communications, and industrial control systems.
In some sectors, new technologies require accompanying standards or policy change. We contribute to the definition of communication protocols and provide input into government policy areas such as decarbonisation.
Supporting our researchers
Perhaps the most important part of research is developing the next generation of talented researchers.
We support our PhD student and post-doctoral researchers as they not only make new discoveries in their specialist fields, but also develop the wider processes of critical thinking, validation, communication and collaboration, ready for careers in industry, engineering consultancy, government or academia.