quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Metamaterials and Nano-Machines Driven with Light

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Eric Plum, Nikolay Zheludev. Project description. The balance among elastic, electromagnetic and quantum forces changes dramatically at the nanometre scale. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Plum

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Vacuum Hollow-core Optical Fibres

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Prof. Radan Slavik, Dr. Peter Horak, Dr. Natalie Wheeler. Project description. We are looking for a PhD student to join our growing team of students, postdocs, and senior researchers. Read more

Supervisor: Prof R Slavik

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Particle accelerator simulations for new particle physics experiments

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

Particle colliders are incredibly complex and expensive devices to design, construct, operate and maintain. Read more

Supervisor: Prof S Gibson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Probing Astrochemical Reactions with Laser Spectroscopy

University of Birmingham School of Chemistry

The study of chemistry occurring in low temperature environments, such as those in the interstellar medium, is an excellent test of our understanding of the governing forces in molecular interactions and reactive collisions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Lehman

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Ultra-high speed integrated optical beam steering.

Heriot-Watt University School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

Integrated optic (IO) devices manipulate light waves in a manner similar to the way integrated electronic devices manipulate electrons. Read more

Supervisors: Prof R Thomson, Dr A Maccarone, Dr R Donaldson

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of a miniature fibre-optic Raman probe for biomedical applications.

Heriot-Watt University School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

Raman spectroscopy is a vibrational spectroscopy technique that enables the label-free identification and classification of materials, including biological materials such as live tissues. Read more

Supervisors: Prof R Thomson, Dr CR Ross

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Nanofabrication of novel materials for spintronics and energy harvesting

Loughborough University Department of Physics

Society has benefitted from the continued miniaturisation of electronic components to the extent that we now take the availability of portable personal devices such as smart watches, phones, tablets and lighter, faster laptops for granted. Read more

Supervisor: Prof K Morrison

1 July 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Theory of generation of bright attosecond pulses

King’s College London Department of Physics

The creation of the shortest duration, attosecond, light pulses has been celebrated by the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 [1]. The application of such pulses increases the temporal resolution that physical processes, such as electronic dynamics in atoms, molecules and condensed matter, can be observed with. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Khokhlova

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Photochemical Dynamics

University of Bristol Chemistry

Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Photochemical Dynamics. Fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentships are available to start in September 2024 in the Orr-Ewing research group and the Oliver research group in the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol. Read more

Supervisor: Prof A Orr-Ewing

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Polychromatic optical singularities

King’s College London Department of Physics

Starting from the early 1990s, a quiet revolution has been taking place in optics, coming from a growing realization that one can get a huge amount of information about the propagation of a beam of light by understanding the nature and position of the optical singularities in the beam. Read more

Supervisor: Dr EP Pisanty

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Fully-funded PhD position available in synthetic organometallic chemistry for functional materials at the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London

Imperial College London Department of Chemistry

Start date. Oct 2024. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Project summary. Read more

Supervisor: Prof N Long

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Integrated Nonlinear Photonics

Heriot-Watt University School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

Advances in fabrication techniques has enabled efficient nonlinear interactions in nanophotonic waveguides with very low pump excitations. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Saleh

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Applications of advanced data analysis approaches to gravitational-wave astronomy and beyond

Royal Holloway, University of London Department of Physics

In 2015, the kilometre-scale LIGO laser interferometers observed tiny ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Ashton

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Pushing the scale boundaries for degradation simulations of industrially relevant materials

University of Southampton Chemistry

Supervisory Team: Chris-Kriton Skylaris. Project description. The computational simulation of chemical reactions in materials requires an accurate, explicit description of their electrons. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C K Skylaris

1 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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A Hybrid Plasma Accelerator for Therapeutic Electron Beams

The University of Manchester Cockcroft Institute

Would you like to join us at the University of Manchester to change the future of particle accelerators?. Using the available studentship, you will explore combining mature electron production technology with new plasma-based acceleration. Read more

Supervisor: Dr O Apsimon

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 287 quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 287 quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Metamaterials and Nano-Machines Driven with Light

Vacuum Hollow-core Optical Fibres

Particle accelerator simulations for new particle physics experiments

Probing Astrochemical Reactions with Laser Spectroscopy

Ultra-high speed integrated optical beam steering.

Development of a miniature fibre-optic Raman probe for biomedical applications.

Nanofabrication of novel materials for spintronics and energy harvesting

Theory of generation of bright attosecond pulses

Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Photochemical Dynamics

Polychromatic optical singularities

Fully-funded PhD position available in synthetic organometallic chemistry for functional materials at the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London

Integrated Nonlinear Photonics

Applications of advanced data analysis approaches to gravitational-wave astronomy and beyond

Pushing the scale boundaries for degradation simulations of industrially relevant materials

A Hybrid Plasma Accelerator for Therapeutic Electron Beams

We have 287 quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 287 quantum PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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