1 - Materials and Biomaterials  

• Materials for Energy Applications 
• Soft Matter and Biomaterials 
• Structural Materials Modelling and simulation in materials and processes.
• Materials for Sensors MEMS and NEMS. 
• Semiconductor Materials for Sensors 
• Phosphate materials and applications 
• Piezoelectric materials

2 - Energy and Environment  

• Energy applications of nanostructures and  nanomaterials
• Energy & Environment
• Energy harvesting 
• Materials for solar energy 
• Thermoelectric materials and their applications 
• Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cell Technologies
• Hydrogen in Transportation
• hydrogen production, hydrogen storage
• Renewable Energy and Storage 
• Energy and buildings
• Energy conversion 
• Smart grids
• Biomass and biofuels
• Environmental Science and Polution Research

• 3 - Optics and photonics 

•  Nonlinear Optics
• Advanced Optical Materials
• Functionalized organics/organomettalic compounds for nonlinear optical applications
• Electro-optic materials and devices
• Laser-matter interaction and  NLO  processes
• Optical data storage

4 - Sensing and bio-sensing 

• Nanomaterials for sensing applications Sensor technology 
• Instrumentation and data processing
• Non destructive testing
• Health Monitoring Structures
• Sensor data Fusion
• Reconstruction techniques
• Defect detection & localization methods
• Modeling and Simulation
• Gas Sensors 
• MEMS/NEMS Sensors