PhD Studentship - Additive Manufacture of Nano-functionalised Optical Sensors

Additive Manufacture of Nano-functionalised Optical Sensors

The University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Engineering is one of the premier engineering faculties in the UK. The Faculty conducts research that has been recognised by the last Research Assessment Exercise as being world-leading or internationally excellent, placing Nottingham in the UK’s top five universities for engineering. The Faculty is a vibrant and supportive environment in which to work. It provides state-of-the art experimental and computational facilities and attracts leading scholars from around the world, many of whom are leaders in their fields.

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship (3 years) to work as part of the Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Research Group. Located within the Faculty of Engineering, the Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Research Group is widely regarded as the world's leading Centre for Additive Manufacturing research, development and dissemination.

The research group hosts the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Additive Manufacturing, which is led from the University of Nottingham with Loughborough University as a partner. The aim of this EPSRC Centre is to work at the forefront of Additive Manufacturing and Three Dimensional (3D) Printing research with a focus on next-generation, multi-material and multifunctional Additive Manufacturing systems for the production of end-use functionalised 3D structures and components.

The focus of the studentship will be to investigate the 2 photon polymerisation principle for manufacturing 3D and multi-material structures and applications and to further enhance these structures with optical trapping techniques to add functionality, e.g. create a biochemical assay. The studentship will concentrate on the use of holographic optical tweezers for the nano-positioning of nano-beads and incorporation into macro-structures produced via 2PP.

Please direct informal enquiries to Dr Chris Tuck, via the Centre Administrator, Mirela Axinte, email: [Email Address Removed] .

To make an application, please send a covering letter stating clearly how you fulfil the requirements of the studentship, your research interests and include a CV, academic transcripts and the names and addresses of two academic referees, to [Email Address Removed].