Research activities are carried out within the UEMF Research Center. The internal organization of this center includes three units in Engineering, Human and Social Sciences and Biomedical-Biotechnology.
The research teams are accredited by the University, each bringing together more than two teacher-researchers. The Center has technological platforms equipped with very high-level scientific and technological equipment accessible to the entire scientific community of the Center. The Center has a director, a steering committee, and a scientific council.
Research activities are carried out on priority themes meeting the needs of the UEMF's research and innovation strategy. Research staff, which includes doctoral students, post-doctoral students, professor-researchers, engineers and technicians, must comply with the work plan approved by the University's governing bodies in terms of the priority areas of the UEMF and in strict compliance with the UEMF ethics charter and the standards in force concerning the use of animals or even human experiments.
The University's research staff are encouraged to seek other sources of funding by forging links with the socio-economic and industrial world and participating in national and international funding programs. Incentive bonuses on this subject are set up by the UEMF to reward the most active professor-researchers. A UEMF researcher who obtains a research project financed by sources external to the University is himself the authorizer of the expenses relating to his research project. Researchers may include in the budget of the research project submitted to the granting bodies personal bonuses approved by the said granting body and by the UEMF. The University can also award research bonuses for the most deserving professor-researchers and in particular those who publish the results of their research work in prestigious international journals with a very high impact factor such as NATURE and SCIENCE.