XJTLU has identified the following research themes that reflect the nature and capacity of our university and our commitment to inter-disciplinarity:

• Energy futures: social and technological choices
• Living in the digital age: human-computer interaction, design, social networks
• Finance, risk and hazard management
• Sustainable urbanisation
• Health technologies in society
• Emerging economies
• Diagnostic markers, therapeutic targets, and drug discovery
• Languages, communication and culture
• Nanotechnology and new materials