Research Institutes and Centres of Excellence

• Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education

  From training future generations of railway engineers to developing world-leading technologies, we collaborate with industry and academia to drive UK and global rail innovation.

• High Temperature Research Centre

  A joint collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Rolls-Royce enabling production-scale research and experimentation.

• The Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI

  Working across all five Colleges, addressing challenges in sustainability, equality, health and data-driven science.

• Quantum Technologies

  Developing the use of sensors and clocks in innovative, ground-breaking technologies to change the future landscapes of healthcare, transport, defence, civil engineering and more.

• Birmingham Energy Institute

  The complexity of the energy challenge requires systems level thinking, drawing on the breadth of our capabilities from policy and economics to new technologies.

• Healthcare Technologies Institute

  Working together to advance new technologies and treatments that enable people to live longer, healthier and happier lives.

• Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine

  Transforming lives through quantitative biomedical and clinical research.

• Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

  Bringing together expertise from a wide spectrum of disciplines to open a new window on the Universe.

• Centre for Cyber Security and Privacy

  Tackling cyber security challenges for business, government and society.

• Centre for Formulation Engineering

  Developing solutions to problems facing the food, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, consumer goods and speciality products sectors.