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physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 806 physics PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis for Sparsely Sampled, Noisy Stellar Light Curves

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Sandip, Dr M S Baptista
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Chaos-based cryptography

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M S Baptista
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Machine-learning Analysis and Modelling of Histone Chaperone Function

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Angel, Dr E Ullner
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Graph-based techniques for image processing

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Martin, Prof M. C. Romano
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Molecular Quantum Dynamics of Isomerising molecules

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Law, Dr P A Henderson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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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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Silicon photonic sensors for early detection of paediatric sepsis

Supervisory Team. Dr. David J Rowe and Professor Goran Mashanovich. This PhD project focuses on developing silicon photonic sensors that can detect early biomarkers of sepsis in children - quickly, accurately, and at the point of care. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr D Rowe
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Next-Generation UV-Visible Guiding Hollow-Core Fibres

Supervisory Team. Dr Ian Davidson, Dr Gregory Jasion and Professor Francesco Poletti. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr I Davidson
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Intelligent Nanofabrication for Nanophotonics

Supervisory Team. Prof Kevin MacDonald, Dr Ben Mills and Prof Nikolay Zheludev. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is a key enabling technology in physical sciences research and industrial micro/nanotech manufacturing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof K MacDonald
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Photonic time crystals and timetronics

Supervisory Team. Prof Nikolay I. Zheludev, Prof Kevin MacDonald and Dr Eric Plum. Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter in which time-translation symmetry is broken. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof N Zheludev
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Interfacing semiconductor quantum dots with alkali-atom-based quantum memories

Supervisory Team. Dr Patrick Ledingham. The future Quantum Internet requires efficient devices that store and recall arbitrary quantum states of light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Ledingham
 1 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Investigating surface textures to optimize flow dynamics using multi-fidelity surrogate modeling

Supervisory team. Haris Moazam Sheikh. This project will develop a multi-scale surrogate modeling framework to optimize passive surface textures (like dimples) for maximum fluid drag reduction. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr H Sheikh
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Ultra-stable Hollow core fibre photonics

Supervisory Team. Prof. Radan Slavik, Dr. Meng Ding and Dr. Giuseppe Marra. About the project. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof R Slavik
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Integrated solid-state quantum memories for light

Supervisory Team. Dr Patrick Ledingham. About the project. The future Quantum Internet requires efficient devices that store and recall arbitrary quantum states of light. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Ledingham
 1 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Quantum frequency conversion with alkali atoms: linking trapped ions to telecom networks

Supervisory Team. Dr Patrick Ledingham. About the project. The future Quantum Internet requires coherent transfer of quantum states between disparate platforms. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Ledingham
 1 August 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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