Sub-disciplines

CHEMISTRY (CHE)

• Biological, Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
• Environmental Chemistry
• Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
• Instrumental Techniques, Analysis, Sensors
• Molecular Aspects of New Materials, Macromolecules, Supramolecular Structures, Nanochemistry
• New Synthesis, Combinatorial Chemistry
• Reaction Mechanisms and Dynamics
• Surface Science and Colloids
• Theoretical and Computational chemistry
• Other Chemistry

ECONOMIC SCIENCES (ECO)

• Financial Sciences
• Industrial Economics (incl. Technology & Innovation)
• International Economics
• Labour Economics
• Macroeconomics
• Management of Enterprises (incl. Marketing)
• Microeconomics
• Natural Resources & Environmental Economics
• Public Sector Economics
• Quantitative Methods
• Research Management
• Social Economics
• Urban & Regional Economics (incl. Transport Economics)
• Other Economic Sciences

ENGINEERING & INFORMATION SCIENCE (ENG)

• Automation, Computer Hardware, Robotics
• Bioengineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Graphics, Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia
• Electrical Engineering
• Electronics
• Information Systems, Software Development and Databases
• Knowledge Engineering and Artificial Intelligence
• Materials Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Architecture
• Signals, Speech and Image Processing
• Systems, Control, Modelling & Neural Networks
• Telecommunications
• Transport Engineering
• Other Engineering and Information Science

ENVIRONMENT & GEOSCIENCES (ENV)

• Agriculture, Agro industry and Forestry
• Biodiversity and Conservation
• Climatology, Climate Change, Meteorology and Atmospheric Processes
• Ecology and Evolution (incl. Population Biology)
• Environmental Engineering and Geotechnics
• Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Geochemistry and Mineral Sciences
• Geophysics, Tectonics, Seismology, Volcanology
• Marine Sciences
• Natural Resources Exploration and Exploitation
• Physical Geography, Earth Observation and Remote Sensing
• Pollution, Waste Disposal and Ecotoxicology
• Soil and Water Processes
• Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Processes and Palaeontology
• Other Environment and Geosciences

LIFE SCIENCES (LIF)

• Bioenergetics
• Biological Membranes
• Biomedicine, Public Health & Epidemiology
• Cancer Research
• Cell Biology
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Developmental Biology
• Enzymology
• Genetic Engineering
• Genomics and General Genetics
• Immunology
• Macromolecular Structures and Molecular Biophysics
• Medical Pathology
• Metabolic Regulation and Signal Transduction
• Metabolism of Cellular Macromolecules
• Microbiology and Parasitology
• Neurosciences (incl. Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology)
• Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Physiology
• Virology
• Other Life Sciences

MATHEMATICS (MAT)

• Algebra and Number Theory
• Algorithms and Complexity
• Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
• Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics
• Discrete Mathematics and Computational Mathematics
• Geometry and Topology
• Logic and Semantics
• Statistics and Probability
• Other Mathematics

PHYSICS (PHY)

• Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
• Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Biophysics and Medical Physics
• Condensed Matter- Electronic Structures, Electrical and Magnetic Properties
• Condensed Matter- Mechanical and Thermal Properties
• Condensed Matter- Optical and Dielectric Properties
• Elementary Particles and Fields
• Fluids and Gases
• Non Linear Dynamics and Chaos Theory
• Nuclear Physics
• Optics and Electromagnetism
• Physical Chemistry, Soft Matter and Polymer Physics
• Physics of Superconductors
• Plasmas and Electric Discharges
• Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics
• Surface Physics
• Other Physics

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (SOC)

• Education and Training
• Law (European or Comparative National)
• Linguistics (applied to: Education, Industrial Efficiency or Social Cohesion)
• Media and Mass Communication
• Political Sciences (European or Comparative National)
• Psychology (Social, Industrial, Labour, or Education)
• Sociology
• Other Social and Human Sciences