Our work ranges in scale from nuclear physics to interplanetary space exploration, and we have an enviable reputation for the contributions we have made towards a variety of challenges faced by our society. These challenges include improving our environment, health, communications, transport, security, information technologies, energy and water. More information on these research themes is available via the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Themes page.

We believe in the importance of linking fundamental scientific research to engineering applications, so many of these activities are underpinned by strong industrial links, and several successful spin-out companies have resulted.

The Faculty consists of the Departments/Divisions of:

Electronic Engineering (EE)

Head: Prof Josef Kittler

Physics

Head: Prof Paul Sellin 

Mathematics

Head: Prof Mark Roberts 

Computing

Head: Prof Tony Ho

Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (CCE)

Head: Prof Marios Chryssanthopoulos

Mechanical, Medical and Aerospace Engineering (MMA) 

Head: Prof Andrew Crocombe 

The Faculty’s research takes place predominantly within large, coherent groups whose mass and state-of-the-art facilities provide unique opportunities for pursuing a wide variety of topics, many of them with a multidisciplinary flavour drawing on academic staff from multiple disciplines.

Advanced Technology Institute (ATI)

Director: Prof Ravi Silva

Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES)

Director: Prof Matthew Leach

Centre for Communication Systems Research (CCSR)

Director: Prof Rahim Tafazolli

Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics (CNRP)

Director: Prof Wilton Catford

Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)

Director: Prof Adrian Hilton

Surrey Materials Institute (SMI)

Director: Prof John Watts

Surrey Space Centre (SSC)

Director: Prof Martin Sweeting