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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Probing the foundations of quantum mechanics with ultracold quantum sensors

Quantum sensors based on atom interferometry are used as accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers, and there is increasing interest in using them for fundamental science. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Harte, Dr PM Millington
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Engineering Topology, Magnetism and Correlations in Moiré Quantum Materials

Two-dimensional quantum materials are creating new opportunities to design electronic states that have no direct counterpart in conventional solids. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Bahramy, Prof R Slager
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Recombinant protein production in microalgae

The development of microalgae into alternative expression platforms for therapeutic recombinant protein production has long been hampered by the low productivity of protein expression, particularly when nuclear genes are employed. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof K Theodoropoulos, Dr J Pittman
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Bio-Inspired Robotic Burrowing: Penetration and Anchorage in Real Soil

Can a robot weaken the soil in front of it without losing the grip that drives it forward? Bio-inspired burrowing systems could enable mobile, low-disturbance investigation of the shallow subsurface, reaching locations that are difficult to access using drilling, trenching or conventional vertical probes. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr X Xu, Dr A Weightman, Dr J Shang
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Heavy-flavour physics at the LHCb experiment

Particle physics aims to study the smallest constituents of matter and their interactions. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MDC De cian, Dr C Fitzpatrick
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Superfluid Helium Films for Next-Generation Cryogenic Hydrogen Masers

Hydrogen masers are quantum devices that employ laser-like amplification of microwaves produced by the hyperfine splitting in hydrogen. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr B Jones, Prof S Weinfurtner
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Physics-Grounded Learning of AI Agents for Designing Vaccine Reactors

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in engineering design, but researchers still decide which simulations to run, whether results are physically credible, and what to investigate next. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr N Basha, Prof J Lawrence
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Higgstory of the Universe

The Higgs boson might hold the answer to the deepest questions in fundamental physics. Current measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) create unprecedented sensitivity to deviations from the Standard Model. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Englert, Dr PM Millington
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] First Physics and AI-enhanced scientific discovery with the DarkSide-20k direct dark matter experiment

This PhD project will give you the opportunity to carry out some of the first physics exploitation of the DarkSide-20k dark matter observatory, a next-generation international experiment being constructed 1.4 km beneath a mountain at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Central Italy. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof D D Price, Dr ARY Ritchie Yates
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Analysis of Spatial Time Series Data using Random Matrices

Are you excited by the challenge of turning massive, complex data into rigorous statistical insight? We invite applications for a PhD project at the intersection of high-dimensional probability, random matrix theory, and spatio-temporal statistics, with applications in climate science, epidemiology, neuroimaging, finance, and sensor networks. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Bhattacharjee, Dr E Alsusa
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Physics-informed and explainable reduced-order modelling for integrated subsurface hydrogen and thermal energy storage

The proposed PhD will develop a physics-informed reduced-order modelling (ROM) framework for integrated subsurface hydrogen and thermal-energy storage, using biogas-to-hydrogen conversion as an application case. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Babaei, Prof V Niasar
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Air-to-Air Heat Pumps for Equitable Demand Flexibility and Year-Round Thermal Comfort in UK Homes

Heat pumps will play a major role in decarbonising UK homes, but most discussion focuses on winter heating. Climate change is also making overheating a growing problem, meaning many homes may increasingly need cooling as well as low-carbon heat (Pinchbeck et al., 2026). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Jaise Kuriakose, Dr ZZ Zheng, Dr S Lindley
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Exploring the polarizability of water and other liquids near surfaces and under molecular-scale confinement

A PhD position is available in our research group to investigate a fundamental physical property of water and other molecular liquids — polarizability — near biological or non-biological interfaces and under nanoscale confinement. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr LM Fumagalli
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Extragalactic Astronomy and Astrophysics

A project is available in extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Bowler, Dr R C Cochrane, Prof A Scaife, Prof R Beswick, Prof C Conselice
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Photocatalytic reduction of CO2 and NOx using metal-organic framework materials

Metal–organic frameworks (MOF) materials are constructed from metal nodes bridged by organic ligands to form porous three-dimensional networks that can accommodate a range of ions and substrates. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof C Hardacre, Prof M Schröder
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