Members of the department have been involved the initiation, development and activities of a number of interdisciplinary research centres. A number of these are listed below:
- Barrer Centre
- bp-ICAM (International Centre for Advanced Materials)
- Carbon Capture and Storage Research Network
- Centre for Environmental Policy
- Centre for Processable Electronics
- Clean Fossil and Bioenergy Research Group
- The Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering
- DigiFAB - The Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication
- Digital Rocks Lab
- Energy Futures Lab
- Engineering Medicines Lab
- Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment
- Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering
- Memphis Multiphase
- Pharmacat
- Qatar Carbonate and Carbon Storage Research Centre
- Sustainable Gas Institute
- SynFabFun
- Transient and Complex Multiphase Flows and Flow Assurance (TMF) consortium