Themes
MERIT provides vision, leadership and support for our research activities by focusing efforts on problems of global importance, increasing multidisciplinary opportunities and significantly expanding our partnerships with industry across four research themes:
- Biomedical Engineering - in support of medicine and health;
- Information and Communication Systems - underpinning the future of information sharing, collaboration, education and business;
- Structured Matter - the role modern materials play in our world;
- Sustainable Systems & Energy - the future of water, energy and the environment for our society.
Each theme has key research directions and is establishing: Centres of Excellence; strong support from industry and government; sustainable sources of funding to carry out leading research; and a quality research environment that continues to attract the best researchers and research students.
These four research themes bring together all researchers from our six departments to collaborate and form a truly world-class Melbourne Engineering Research Institute.