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PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 202 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Quantum Computing for Computational Fluid Dynamics and Applications

Supervisors. Prof Dimitrios Angelakis d.angelakis@southampton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Angelakis
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Qubit efficient quantum optimization and applications to industrial problems

Supervisors. Dimitrios Angelakis d.angelakis@southampton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Angelakis
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Resource-efficient quantum simulation of chemistry with quantum computers

Supervisors. Dimitrios Angelakis d.angelakis@southampton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Angelakis
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Quantum-Enhanced Mid-IR Spectroscopy for High-Precision Sensing

Supervisors. Prof. Senthil Murugan Ganapathy smg@orc.soton.ac.uk. Dr. Katrina Morgan Katrina.Morgan@soton.ac.uk. Prof. Liudi Jiang L.Jiang@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof S Ganapathy
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Engineering perfect superconducting qubits

Supervisors. Dr Dikai Guan Dikai.Guan@soton.ac.uk. Dr Bruce (Jun-Yu) Ou Bruce.Ou@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Guan
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Electrically driven quantum light sources from two-dimensional materials

Supervisors. Dr Soumya Sarkar soumya.sarkar@soton.ac.uk. Dr Makars Šiškins M.Siskins@soton.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Sarkar
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Algorithm development for molecular simulations on quantum computers

Supervisors. Karl Michael Ziems K.M.Ziems@soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr KMZ Ziems
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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On-chip Quantum Cryptography Using Two-Dimensional Materials

Supervisors. Dr Yasir Noori y.j.noori@soton.ac.uk. Frederic Gardes fg5v@ecs.soton.ac.uk. This project, within the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Technology Engineering at the University of Southampton (https://qte.ac.uk), carries a UKRI TechExpert enhanced annual stipend around £31k for UK students. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Noori
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Integrating Quantum and Classical Sensors for Long-Duration Inertial Navigation

Supervisors. Blair Thornton b.thornton@soton.a.uk. Tim Freegarde Tim.Freegarde@soton.ac.uk. Darryl Newborough (external), Georgios Salavasidis (external) Darryl.Newborough@sonardyne.com; georgios.salavasidis@noc.ac.uk. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Thornton
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Development of large-area infrared metaoptics technologies

Supervisory Team. Prof Otto Muskens and Dr Kai Sun. The project will explore the design and fabrication of metasurface-based optical components using advanced full-wafer fabrication tools available in the University of Southampton cleanrooms and use advanced nanophotonics laboratories for testing. . Read more
 Supervisor: Prof O L Muskens
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Antiresonant hollow core optical fibre precision coils

Supervisory Team. Professor Austin Taranta and Dr. Leonard Budd. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Taranta
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Hollow core optical fibres embedded with chalcogenide 2D materials

Supervisory Team. Dr Pier Sazio and Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis. Hollow core anti-resonant fibres (ARFs) enable strong light-matter interaction through functional material deposition. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Sazio
 31 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Piezoelectric Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems (NOEMS) resonators for neuromorphic computing

Supervisory Team. Dr Yoshishige Tsuchiya, Dr Bruce Ou and Prof Jize Yan. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Y Tsuchiya
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Polarization effects in antiresonant hollow core optical fibres

Supervisory Team. Prof. Austin Taranta, Dr. Gianluca Guerra, Dr. Gregory Jasion and Dr. Ian Davidson. Dive into the mysterious world of polarization in antiresonant hollow core fibres, where conventional wisdom is turned on its head, and unexpected phenomena emerge every day. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Taranta
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Graphene-based silicon photonic photodetectors for mid-infrared wavelengths

Supervisory Team. Dr Milos Nedeljkovic and Professor Callum Littlejohns. This project’s aim is to explore the integration of graphene with Silicon Photonic circuits to create fast and sensitive photodetectors for the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, a key wavelength range for detecting gases and molecules. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Nedeljkovic
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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