The four-year interdisciplinary MRes/PhD programme run by CoMPLEX trains students to work at the interface between mathematics, engineering, physics and the life sciences. In this integrated programme, the first year is an MRes year during which students are trained in both mathematical modelling and advanced experimental techniques.

Students also attend undergraduates lecture courses to strengthen their knowledge of mathematics (if their background is mainly in biology) or biology (if they have a background in the physical sciences or mathematics).

With this training students emerge to pursue interdisciplinary PhD research in a wide range of areas. A requirement of the programme is that all students have two supervisors, one from the life sciences and one from the physical sciences.

With a very wide range of departments and research groups involved at UCL there is plenty of choice and CoMPLEX provides a key focal point for communication between groups, both to strengthen existing collaborations and to promote the development of new ones.

Research topics are available in the following areas: