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Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Faculty takes a multi-disciplinary approach to solving the big problems in science and engineering, including research focusing on body sensors, data networks, clean energy, tissue engineering, behavioural science and drug discovery.
Professor Jeremy Kilburn, Vice-Principal Faculty of Science and Engineering

Faculty of Science and Engineering highlights for postgraduate students

Around 300 postgraduate taught students, 400 full-time research degree students, over 100 postdoctoral researchers and 300 research assistants and support staff.
Annual turnover of £70m, of which £19m is competitively awarded research income.
A focus on student satisfaction and employability: among the major, multi-faculty universities in London, Queen Mary was ranked joint first with UCL in the National Student Survey 2011
Three National Teaching Fellows and several winners of the Drapers’ awards for innovation in Teaching and Learning.
Research Councils UK awarded six interdisciplinary Roberts Fellows, which put Queen Mary in the UK top ten for this scheme.
Exciting launch of the ImpactQM project linking early career researchers with selected industry partners to exploit the Faculty’s strengths in materials, electronic and mechanical engineering, and computer science. ImpactQM received nearly £3m in funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Many successful spin-out companies – including ApaTech, a manufacturer of synthetic bone substitutes, which was awarded the top prize in the PraxisUnico Impact Awards.
Recently completed £12m Joseph Priestley Building houses 1000m2 of outstanding research facilities for environmental and chemical analysis, cell and molecular genetic imaging and the study of protein nanostructure and function.
Our RCUK Digital Economy Programme Centre in Media and Arts Technology offers both PhD and masters programmes. Students develop working relationships with our strategic collaborators including: the BBC, the British Film Institute, last.fm, Sony and BT.
Extensively refurbished Mathematical Sciences and Biological and Chemical Sciences buildings provide state-of-the-art facilities.

Academic schools in the Faculty

The Faculty is divided into five schools:

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